Sentences with phrase «people congregate for»

«A city needs a heart and soul — typically the center, where people congregate for work and leisure.

After selling his home and packing all his belongings in storage, he traveled to the small rural community of Barre, Mass., about 100 kilometers west of Boston, where every year people congregate for a three - month - long «meditation marathon.»

Not exact matches

On a rainy Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of people congregated in Steam Whistle Brewing's historic roundhouse building for the first - ever JOLT Demo Day.

Church is a building for people to congregate and share.

Suicide bombers sell more copy than people who congregate for Bible study.

In the West Brighton section of Staten Island, small groups of people walk across the street from the project buildings into the parking lot of New Hope Community Church, where they dodge basketballs whizzing by before congregating in a beautifully renovated building that was a staging area for an underground pit bull fighting ring up until a few years ago.

This has been the primary purpose of religion, of course - to congregate people for the Greater Good - but God has been, in fact, the divine carrot.

There are Scientologists everywhere, and just like people of any other religion, they look for a place to congregate and converge wherever they are.

The Internet provides an easy way for young people to congregate, without the trouble and expense of getting them to a physical place; several companies have thus begun to sponsor online camps that offer fun, structured activities that encourage children to keep learning during those summer months.

The atmosphere in Hasbrouck Park last Friday morning was festive, even electric as a crowd of approximately 1,300 people congregated to hear Socialist Vermont senator and former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders deliver a ringing endorsement of Zephyr Teachout's bid to reclaim New York's 19th Congressional District seat for the Democrats, after it was held for three terms by retiring Republican Chris Gibson.

Because the penguins are apparently too light for their footsteps to set off the explosive devices, the birds now congregate in fenced minefields that are off - limits to people and livestock.

For people who have a «type» in mind it makes sense to go where their type congregate.

TallFriends.com is a safe place for the vertically blessed to congregate and find other tall - minded people to connect with.

Spearheaded by Lori Alhadeff, whose 14 - year - old daughter Alyssa was one of the 17 people killed in the Feb. 14 attack, more than 100 people congregated at Quigley Park for a day filled with tennis, shopping and a tree dedication in memory of those lost.

At 8 p.m., with no movie house in town, people congregated Tuesday on the short set of bleachers facing a wooden ring in which aging dairy cows were sold, mainly for hamburger, and vealer calves, also for slaughter, if not singled out by a farmer rebuilding his herd.

There are plenty of spots on the sand to claim your own, most people tend to congregate close to the restaurants for easy dining access, but farther south, the beach gets even prettier.

People sit in clumps in the park, chasing the sun until the late hours; they congregate in the common room of the «indie hostel», an unofficial title for the HI San Francisco Downtown hostel that gets taken over by hundreds of indie developers each year for the conference; they huddle in corners of the show floor swapping stickers and congratulating each other on their recent game releases.

People also tend to congregate indoors in wintertime, increasing the likelihood for disease infection.

Bart, thank you once again for this wonderful venue where such a collection of lively statistical minds have congregated to the great benefit of people like me.

any group of two or more persons congregating on public space for the purpose of engaging in prostitution or prostitution - related offenses first will be warned by a police officer that they are in a Prostitution Free Zone and will be directed to disperse.

Someone saw the church on a map, thought it would be a good place for people to congregate around without bothering anyone, and marked it as a gym.

People congregate there regularly for a laser light show, and drinking is among the festivities.

It needs to be placed in an area of the house that people congregate, such as a hallway or lounge for it to be able to sense when everyone has left.

I love to make other spots in a home more dramatic if the client is up for it (offices, bedrooms, powder baths, etc.) but people tend to gather and congregate in the brighter rooms so we try to always make them feel that way.

People congregate in kitchens, the true heart of the home... no need for a closed off, separate dining room.

DM: In her essay the Ageless Kitchen PJ Wade points out that wider access ways to accommodate walker and wheel chairs, adjustable counter top heights and ergometric features such as levered door handles are making it not only easier for people of all ages to congregate in the kitchen but to cook in it as well.

Banquette seating can offer comfortable seating for people who congregate in the kitchen for more than food.