Sentences with phrase «of small villages at»

Placencia — This is a long peninsula jutting into the Caribbean in the south of the country, as well as the name of the small village at the tip of the narrow peninsula.

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James Maclean, an engineer at the office who happens to be from Hawkestone — a small town north of Barrie — tested it out on his village and added in all sorts of stuff.

We need companies to invest and people to look at small grid power systems, combinations of wind and diesel, thermal energy, hydro electric energy things that can be tailored for these individual villages depending on their location.

«Located at the heart of the United Arab Emirates along the Gulf on the eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, there's nothing small nor understated about this former fishing village turned oil - rich city - state.»

I am a professor at Catholic University of Louvain and I am also engaged in militant activities including with the Amis du Monde Diplomatique (Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique monthly), as an organiser of the Forum of the Small Villages of the World and the «Groupe de Lisbonne»...»

For Cook, that place, where they were supposed to learn about how to communicate the Gospel was, in fact, standing in the way of the Gospel, at least for the people in that small village.

After defying her traditional family and leaving her small fishing village to set out on the journey to Jerusalem with the disciples, Mary found herself at the centre of the founding story of Christianity.

You can still catch it at Christmas in a village church when a small child with a strong country accent grapples for the first time with the nativity story in the King James Bible, and the music of the eternal flows into the silent building through his hesitating tongue.

But before turning to Jesus» sayings, let me at least say what one can infer from Q about his life: He grew up in a small village of lower or southern Galilee called in (Q 4:16) Nazara, but always called Nazareth elsewhere in the canonical Gospels, a hamlet perhaps too small even to have had a local synagogue in which Jesus might have learned to read the Hebrew scriptures.

Perhaps it is a hint at the lower social origin of Jesus.12 The two dominant perspectives regarding the social context of Jesus are the view that Jesus was an artisan - carpenter and that he was a small village carpenter.

Wouldn't it be nice, he writes, «if all of that eerily unsettled rural countryside were instead dense with diversified 100 - acre farmsteads, with their grain and hay rotations, livestock and pastures embedded in a landscape of protected forest, wetland, and prairie,» and in turn supporting an infinity of small villages, connected to the world via all our modern communications pipelines so that people could work at a variety of jobs, but remain connected to the real world by sheer immersion in a particular landscape.

Some of my favorite food from my travels would be Swiss Bircher Muesli served at a guesthouse in a small village near Konstanz, Portuguese pastéis de natas from Pastelaria Aloma in Lisbon (or Café Galao in Berlin) and attiéké, a side dish originally from Côte d'Ivoire, made from grated and fermented cassava.

Yet, perhaps the most potentially repulsive, at least for Western tastes, of grilled meats are found in small poor villages in rural areas: snakes grilled whole, and, on a more intense level, monitor lizards (there are six feet - long lizards, thick as an arm) which are skinned and grilled.

When Edd was young, he lived in a small village called Thackley, and at the heart of the village was a fairly traditional bakery, serving simple, old - fashioned British baking.

When I was young, I lived in a small village called Thackley, and at the heart of the village was a fairly traditional bakery, serving simple, old - fashioned British baking.

Of course this takes place in a small Mexican village, at the beginning of the last century, so everything is homemade and manually done around the kitchen, but to this day, the mole has remained notorious for being extremely laborious and hard to makOf course this takes place in a small Mexican village, at the beginning of the last century, so everything is homemade and manually done around the kitchen, but to this day, the mole has remained notorious for being extremely laborious and hard to makof the last century, so everything is homemade and manually done around the kitchen, but to this day, the mole has remained notorious for being extremely laborious and hard to make.

We will spend the second half of the trip at Pietrantica, which is a converted farmhouse guesthouse with an organic garden in the small village of Decontra.

In a small room in the apartment complex assigned to the Chinese in the athletes» village later that same day, Wu Chung - yuan, the man in charge of international relations at the Games for the All - China Sports Federation, said that everyone was happy that FINA had given its blessing, and that nothing had happened to make anyone think that Taiwan was anything more than just an island province off the coast of China.

Throughout Memorial Day weekend, visitors can also try using a modern process to dye wool at the Hands - on Craft Center and they can take home their own small skein of Old Sturbridge Village sheep wool (fee applies).

That agreement, to annex a proposed two - lot subdivision at 22 W 540 Ahlstrand Rd. when it becomes contiguous with village borders, was strongly opposed by surrounding residents, who feared splitting that lot into two small, single - family lots would destroy the character of their neighborhood.

After two years of meetings and community comments, the Glen Ellyn Village Board approved amendments to its zoning code aimed at reducing the size and bulk of homes on small lots, beginning March 1.

The plan still requires sign off from the Village Board, but it gained the Plan Commission's recommendation April 4 after village and park officials agreed to transfer a small portion of land at Locust Street and Ogden Avenue to the village so it can complete improvements to the intersVillage Board, but it gained the Plan Commission's recommendation April 4 after village and park officials agreed to transfer a small portion of land at Locust Street and Ogden Avenue to the village so it can complete improvements to the intersvillage and park officials agreed to transfer a small portion of land at Locust Street and Ogden Avenue to the village so it can complete improvements to the intersvillage so it can complete improvements to the intersection.

The board also annexed one house at 0N433 Cumnor Ave.. That home is in a small unincorporated neighborhood just north of the Union Pacific railroad tracks that became completely surrounded by village boundaries after trustees incorporated 29 houses along Crescent Boulevard from 1995 to 1999, and then annexed an additional 15 houses on Cumnor, Scott and Clifton Avenues and Ellynwood Drive in 2002.

Many country lawyers worked in small freestanding offices like the Law Office at Old Sturbridge Village, built for John McClellan of Woodstock, Connecticut.

Phillips is in her second term as mayor of the small Nassau County village, having worked for several decades at Goldman Sachs.

but the failure of a business in a small village can devastate a local community and urgent action is needed to give relief to these businesses at the heart of village life.

He formally launched his bid in Tivoli, a small village about 50 miles south of Albany where, in 1995 at age 19, he became the youngest mayor in the United States at the time.

The president, Nana Akufo - Addo who gave the keynote address at the 33rd Farmers» Day celebration in Kumasi on December 1, 2017 said that in line with the government's target of promoting all - year - round cropping, 320 small dams and dugout in 64 districts in the Northern Region have been earmarked to be developed under the One - Village - One - Dam project.

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Trying to make inroads with Downtown community leaders, borough president candidate Jessica Lappin held a meet - and - greet with a small but influential group of about 30 people at the Village home of Susanna Aaron and Gary Ginsberg last week.

He said he was running as a «Tivolian,» a reference to the small village of Tivoli, where he was first elected to office at age 18.

«The small and mighty Village of Greenport will do it for them,» Mr. Nyce said at that press conference, indicating he has an offer on the table by an undisclosed source to tackle the job if the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can't move on the project this year.

Another day of work at a small village clinic in northern Alaska was coming to a close.

At the time of the battle, northern Europe seems to have been devoid of towns or even small villages.

(Roughly, the more bison there are, the greater their genetic diversity and the longer it will take to find the common ancestor of two animals chosen at random — just as one would expect residents of a small English village to be more closely related than two people picked at random from the world population.)

At a recent ceremony in a small village in eastern Madagascar, a group of concerned elders presented a request to their ancestors.

Mather and her three colleagues spent 6 weeks in Chile, 3 of which they lived in a schoolhouse in a small village at the foot of the mountain.

We drove through small villages of not more than 10 to 25 huts, snuggling like nests at the foot of the towering tropical trees.

It's a simple model — for instance, it does not account for zoning restrictions or for the fact that some cities, such as London, emerged as polycentric entities hundreds of years ago when several smaller villages consolidated — but it is still a useful model for exploring polycentricity, says Michael Batty, an urban planner at University College London, who wasn't involved in the study.

We passed tiny villages of wooden huts, some new and ornate, others old and simple with bright blue window frames winking at us Everybody has a small plot of vegetables growing in the rich black soil.

He estimated that a small number — between five and 10 — refugees would qualify, and that they would all compete under the Olympic flag, and be lodged at the Olympic Village with the rest of the athletes.

3 kg dumbbells might be just right for biceps curls... Regular weight training turns a «small village post office» to a «big city post department», organizing well the whole bunch of «postmen» (recruiting all motor units available, enabling muscles work at full potential).

Settle in the beautiful small village of Rishikesh, our school is surrounded by the enthralling Himalayas and situated at a walking distance from the enchanting Ganga.

It's a small village, right by the sea, at the end of Lantau Island.

I missed so much these days of fun at the beach, visiting small villages, discovering beautiful views and ENJOYING the weather... what can I say

Go to your local ACE hardware store and they have a tone of small figures — at least by my ACE used for villages.

The hotel is set in a small village, at the top of a hill.

By the end of their dinner at a small Italian restaurant in New York's West Village, Leah is getting antsy to part ways with her boyfriend Ryan, so that Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a

See if the signs point to your marriage being over at WomansDay By the end of their dinner at a small Italian restaurant in New York's West Village, Leah is getting antsy to part ways with her boyfriend Ryan, so that

There's little doubt, though, that Kubrick's solid eye for compelling visuals is firmly in place even at this nascent stage in his career, and it's worth noting, too, that the movie boasts a very small handful of genuinely compelling sequences (eg Mazursky's unhinged character is left alone with a woman from a nearby village).

The nominal hero, a 12 - year - old aspiring musician named Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez), lives in a small Mexican village that still worships at the gilded feet of Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt), a local - turned - internationally famous crooner who dominated both the airwaves and movie screens during his heyday in the 1930s and»40s.