Sentences with phrase «people of the city gather»

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Giordano spoke before hundreds of people gathered at a college in Santa Rosa, one of the hardest - hit cities, for a memorial service to honor the lives lost in the deadliest series of wildfires in California history.

On Sunday, thousands of people reportedly gathered in the Afrin town of Kobane and are currently traveling to the city of Afrin in support.

And the CEO of Gen Con, a 50,000 - person gamers» gathering that's reportedly Indianapolis's largest convention in attendance and economic impact, said the law could prompt the group to move the event after 2020, when its contract with the city expires.

Thousands of people gathered in Hull's historic Old Town at the weekend to celebrate the city's Holy Trinity Church being bestowed a special status by the Archbishop of York.

(CNN)- An estimated 2.5 million pilgrims have descended on the city of Mecca for the Islamic Hajj, said to be the largest annual gathering of people in the world.

On Saturday, 100,000 people gathered in the city of Diyarbakir to protest the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the French journal, Charlie Hebdo.

About 5,000 people were gathered in a city square, protesting after the deaths of 12 demonstrators last weekend.

Hundreds of people attended and even more stood at the gates waiting to get in — a 300 person limit had been placed on the gathering — as politicians, city officials, interfaith leaders and activists spoke from the steps telling Mayor Bloomberg why he should change his mind.

The people of Ferguson — and all protesters who gather in cities and colleges and communities around the world — are doing one thing: they are standing with their hands up and their faces blank.

Late last month, people from all over the globe gathered in Killarney, Ireland to honor a man who died fifty years ago, but whose legend has grown with each passing year: Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, Ireland's heroic priest who rescued some 6500 people in and around Vatican City during the German occupation of Rome....

By these letters the king permitted the Jews who were in every city to gather together and protect their lives» to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province that would «assault them, both little children and women,» and to plunder their possessions.

By these letters the king permitted the Jews who were in every city to gather together and protect their lives — to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province that would assault them, both little children and women, and to plunder their possessions, on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.

I didn't actually make this as written, since a few of the ingredients are obscure and hard to gather for a person who doesn't live in a city with well stocked grocery stores.

Also at noon, Community Access and advocates gather to mourn the death of those lost to fatal emotionally disturbed person encounters with the NYPD and call for meaningful change, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

A group of people gathered at the Battery Park City esplanade on Fri., June 3, when B.P.C. resident, physician and amateur astronomer Sheldon Palgon examined Saturn through his powerful telescope.

Thousands of people in New York City and Washington D.C. gathered yesterday to protest President Trump's response to the deadly violence that broke out at the white supremacist rally.

The letter's signers included the Empire State Pride Agenda, Lambda Legal, the New York City Anti-Violence Project, the LGBT Community Center and the Brooklyn Community Pride Center, the Callen - Lorde Community Health Center, Gay Men's Health Crisis, the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, Immigration Equality, the Family Equality Council, SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders), the GRIOT Circle: a gathering of elders, and several organizations advocating on behalf of LGBT young people, including FIERCE, the Hetrick - Martin Institute, and Streetwise and Safe.

said Christine Quinn, the City Council's first openly lesbian speaker, speaking to a crowd in front of the historic Stonewall Inn in the West Village, where nearly 100 people gathered Tuesday evening to celebrate the ruling.

In fact, so many people showed up that Liu decided to repeat his prepared announcement speech a second time to a crowd that had gathered at the gates of City Hall Park after they were refused entry to the steps because the area had reached capacity.

After learning that a New York City hospital had been illegally billing dozens of sexual assault victims for the rape kits that are used to gather evidence, AG Eric Schneiderman said his office is surveying 10 other hospitals across the state to ensure that people aren't charged such services.

While speaking at a gathering of community and ethnic media reporters, Johnson noted that the city's shelter system currently houses over 61,000 people, and that one in five city residents are living in poverty.

A Syracuse gathering of people affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement drew hundreds to the city.

She and Assemblyman Ron Castorina Jr. filed a suit against the city over its policy of deleting application data gathered when people apply for IDNYC identification cards, arguing it poses a safety risk if the information is destroyed.

Mark - Viverito also said the Council would create a «comprehensive system» to limit the city's gathering of personal data Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials might use to deport people.

About 300 people gathered for about an hour outside of City Hall to call on State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to remove Paladino from offi...

When more than a million LGBT people and their friends and families gather in New York City this weekend to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the birth of the modern LGBT rights movement, we hope that there will be another pivotal event — marriage equality — for them to celebrate.»

«The people of this city have chosen a progressive path and tonight we go forward on it as one city,» de Blasio told a crowd of roughly 1,000 supporters who gathered in the Park Slope Armory on November 5.

It's inspiring to witness, too, as many of us did at Stanford University in California, where more than 200 people gathered for a week this May to practice with Ashtanga - lineage - holder Sharath Jois during his three - city U.S. tour.

The trail ride is groups of people riding horses on the major freeways of Houston to gather in the center of the city for the Rodeo Parade Saturday morning.

One of the biggest venues gathering hundreds of people from different cities and ares is Big Fresno Fair.

And online dating is not the opposite of this approach to love, but its radical extension; if cities erase people's histories and cram them together in space, online dating sites erase both cities and space, gathering people instead under the virtual rubric of a brand.

Jeffrey T. Hancock, a communications professor at Cornell University gathered hundreds of active online daters in New York City to see how far people went in lying on dating profiles.

In essence, a typical dating site is like a big city park where people of all types gather to play and relax.

Beyond its breakneck speed and miles logged, Citizen U.S.A. couldn't be more easy or straightforward: From tiny ceremonies in county courthouses to massive arena - sized gatherings in big cities, Pelosi presents a surprising collage of that essential moment when people who've immigrated to the United States become official Americans.

As hundreds of teachers gather in - person at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, NBC News is also inviting teachers from across the country to join the conversation virtually by registering to take part in the conversation at EducationNation.com.

Glenda Ritz, the Democratic candidate for Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction, speaks to about 60 people gathered in the Bloomington City Council chambers in August.

Naturally, this was my favorite part of the research — wandering around the narrow streets, looking at the way the houses were put together, imagining people gathered at the city well or the marketplace.

At a gala ceremony in New York City, the 67th National Book Awards gathered many of literature's leading lights in celebration of just a few authors: Colson Whitehead, who won in the fiction category; Ibram X. Kendi, in nonfiction; Daniel Borzutzky, in poetry; and Rep. John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell in young people's literature.

The Pre-History age of hunting / gathering ends as settled villages form into city - states that form into great empires, and intellectual / technological / political progress gains a momentum that will propel the peoples of the world into the cultural flowering of Antiquity.

As the IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum) gathers today in New York City for its annual Digital Book Program we can only hope that the smart people in attendance will be working hard to reduce some of these roadblocks.

On April 22 we are running our Divided City tour of Berlin for $ 1 per person in honor of Slow Travel Berlin's annual gathering.

Hundreds of trans people and their allies will gather at the City Chambers on the Royal Mile at 12 noon, march proudly down the Royal Mile for speeches outside the Scottish Parliament, and then converge on the John McIntyre Conference Centre for an afternoon of workshops and socialising!

Every year from 2nd to 6th June, Fado in Trams is celebrated where the icons of the city gathers with people.

Along with a rather downtrodden populous, the city is also host to some faceless enemy creatures that seemed to suck the memories out of people (or at least that's what I gathered during my time playing.)

It is not a night wherein the people of Gotham City are free roaming on the streets or gathered around the mistletoe.

Poussin depicts the widow of the murdered Phocion nervously gathering his ashes for burial, while clusters of people enjoy the sunshine outside the city walls of Athens in the background.

His work is informed by political events taking place in his home city, although he does not intend his paintings to be politicised but motivated only by a desire to isolate these figures and capture «certain vibrations and optical stimuli» he observes in large gatherings of people.

In light of Monday's women - led strike in Poland, in which thousands of people in over sixty cities gathered to protest the government's proposal to completely ban abortion, If You Don't Know Me By Now, You Will Never Never Never Know Me at Fundacja Arton seems exceptionally prescient.

, Irish Times, October 23 Louise Jury, «Now they're REALLY taking the p ***: urinating model is shortlisted for Turner Prize», London Evening Standard, October 22 Aidan Dunne, «Derry courts controvery as Turner Prize opens offshore for first time», Irish Times, October 22 «Turner Prize exhibition due to open in Londonderrry», BBC news, October 22 «Turner Prize Exhibition Unveiled In Derry For City of Culture 2013», Artlyst.com, October 22 Ashoke Nag, «Christie's London evening auctions of post-war classics and Italian sales raises 54,586,900 euros», The Economic Times, October 22 Ashoke Nag, «Collectors from around the world gathers at Sotheby's Frieze Week sale in London», The Economic Times, October 18 Anny Shaw, «The Kids are alright», The Art Newspaper, October 18 Mary M. Lane, «Christie's Sells View of a Space Station for $ 3.8 Million», The Wall Street Journal, October 18 «The ArtLyst Power 100: 2013 Alternative Art Power List Unveiled», Artlyst.com, October 16 «Chistie's Art Cornucopia: Auction Houses as Exhibition Spaces», Huffington Post, October 13 Colin Gleadell, «London auctions capitalise on Frieze week», The Telegraph, October 8 «The Power 1000 — London's most influential people 2013: Imagineers, Artists and Curators», London Evening Standard, September 19 «Slideshow: See Massimiliano Gioni's Encyclopaedic Palace in 20 Key Works», Blouin Artinfo, August 1 «John Moores Painting Prize 2013 new open for entries», a-n, July 25 «Lynette Yiadom - Boakye», ART post blog, July 16 «Tate Patrons Report 2012 - 2013», Tate, London, pp. 16 - 17 James Hilton, «Who is Lynette Yiadom - Boakye?»

April 24, 2016 IS Day Wake the Town and Tell the People Sculpture enthusiasts gathered at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ for an exciting afternoon of programming for the second annual International Sculpture Day.