Sentences with phrase «rather than a town»

Democrats were tallying their votes electronically, rather than the town - by - town roll call that Republicans used at their convention last week.

The Buffalo - area teens began planning the event with Collins in mind, calling it a student forum rather than a town hall.

During the subsequent Town Hall meeting at 8 p.m., several of the protesters asked pointed questions to St. Lawrence, and the town board, which protesters said is beholden to the desires of the town supervisor rather than town residents.

Both beaches are sheltered coves, hamlets rather than towns, offering safe swimming and languid days.

The same is mostly true for Pocket Camp, except it's a camp rather than a town.

I opted for a town of insomniacs rather than a town of gardeners.

But the city is also struggling against some constraints that are state - rather than town - centric: Arcane New Jersey regulations restrict how hotels can be constructed on the oceanfront, resulting in largely ocean - view, not oceanfront, rooms.

Not exact matches

But rather than keeping everyone in a fancy building in downtown Vancouver, the company has staff working out of 26 offices spread across Western Canada in towns of all sizes — something made financially viable by the resources brought in by the giant projects.

The foundation proposes instead that we should keep urban and non-urban areas clearly separated, and to densify the current cities and towns rather than opening up new construction zones across the countryside.

The appearance of activity created momentum with «tons of content» and made the site feel alive, rather than a «ghost town» empty website.

That was followed in 2012 by Victoria newspaper publisher David Black's much more ambitious but somewhat speculative Kitimat Clean project, consisting of a $ 25 - billion oil refinery in the northern town that would create jobs and taxes in B.C. while ensuring that the exports were of finished products rather than the diluted bitumen from the oilsands whose behavior in the case of a marine spill is virtually unknown.

Next, Town recommends that you should pay yourself — set out an amount you want to save or invest, then budget accordingly, rather than spend and then just save what you have left over.

If you choose to live in Louisville rather than Kentucky's smaller towns, you can get more for your money, according to another GOBankingRates study.

Our cities and towns require a public service bank that lends at affordable rates rather than at higher rates and fees that support short - term investor profit and excessive executive pay and bonuses.

For example, you might buy something when and where it's convenient for you, rather than wait for a sale and drive across town.

If the new Amazon HQ2 came to town, Detroit would see moderate rather than severe rent increases, largely because of its high vacancy rate of 11 percent and its ability to add new housing stock rapidly.

That might mean outsourcing tasks rather than having to own the expensive real estate for vineyards and tasting rooms — and finding innovative ways to bring the wine to small towns, and big cities, as the son of a well - known California winemaker has done.

And as with Apple's white slivers of metal and plastic, the Sony earbuds are designed for bopping around town rather than sweaty exercise.

Once, the First Secretary of the Regional Communist Party insisted that the «black beetles» vote in town rather than at the monastery as a way of teaching «the atavistic deviant non-working-class element of society» a lesson.

Rather than using his acute grasp of manners and speech to demonstrate their fatuity, he asks us to acknowledge beneath and within the clichés and banalities of small - town life — including that of the church — enduring and even noble sentiments.

The setting, to be sure, is first century rural Galilee with its small towns and open farm and grazing land rather than contemporary urban America.

Next time you are tempted to think more highly of someone because they crossed a body of salt water to serve Jesus, first take a look around in your own town and your own community to praise because rather than crossing the sea to serve Jesus, they crossed the asphalt in their neighborhood to love others like Jesus.

Small town Midwestern culture is becoming, if not urban, at least suburban, a place where people commute to Des Moines to work at Home Depot rather than walk down the street to run the local hardware store.

But above all, it includes the countless ordinary citizens, who knew nothing of Locke or Burke or Thomas or Aristotle, who've struggled and worked and fought and died so that they might live under a government responsible to their will, and constrained to regard them as free men and women rather than as members of a class, church, guild, tribe, town, or race.

She is open and honest, a truth - seeker hindered only by a hypocritical town that forces her to come alone to the well at noon rather than the customary evening hour.

Rather than leading to a great blossoming of humanity and compassion, it has produced the mobs of binge drinking, drug addled, lecherous and often violent youth who explode onto the streets of our towns and cities every weekend.

In the 1970s, artist Donald Judd settled in the West Texas border town and planted his minimalist doctrine through artworks and structures that blend into the landscape, rather than attempt to outshine it.

If you still doubt why did nt Jesus just heal all who were around Him rather than a some in each town?

Rather than huddling up and making camp in a town surrounded by His own people, Jesus knew what was at stake and He kept moving.

Towns maintained a minister at public expense, it is true, but all inhabitants, including vocal Quakers, Baptists, and Presbyterians, participated in his selection, «with the result that the minister's theological difficulties were usually with the civil body rather than with the church.

It was a friendly letter, but one attempting to turn Luther into a quiet, optimistic, scholarly reformer, rather than the distraught theologian - poet, the small - town idealist the anxious pastor torn with concern for those misled, the cultured and uncultured alike, by wrong - headed institutional religion.

So this time rather than whipping up my own sauce, I grabbed a bottle of Tessemae's new Mild Buffalo Sauce and went to town.

It seems every second solicitor has been lamenting the lack of cases making their way through the court system as the big end of town attempt to use funds to further business rather than feed lawyers.

«I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married,» he said as the draft board in his home town of Beaver Falls, Pa. requested that he appear for his physical.

I mean, scouts would rather go to Vegas than to Allen - town, you know what I'm sayin»?

Before long, Mooy was loaned out to Huddersfield Town prompting many experts to question the move especially as Huddersfield were tipped for relegation rather than promotion!

In fact it was February before Town won again by which time the supporters were looking at the bottom of the table rather than the top.

TBH if we take over 5k fans and get anything less than 1500 tickets id far rather by in the town centre all day drinking and singing and having fun with the thousands of other Clarets and locals and just watch it on a screen Understand to some people its all about watching the game and the result b...

Because we knew we would not want to spend more time in the car we opted to stay in the tiny town of Alma, directly on the bay and right next to Fundy National Park, rather than in the bigger town of Moncton, which is a 35 drive minute from the bay.

And when it comes down to it, if given the choice, my kids would rather have a (relatively) rested, calm, relaxed and PRESENT mom to come home to after school and to tuck them in at night than one who is their class mom and girl scout troop leader and baseball team mom and who runs the school store organizes the school fundraiser and is on every board there is to be on in town (I don't do all that stuff, but you get the point) and who is also a complete and total stressed out and spread thin raging lunatic from the moment they get home until the moment they are in bed.

Most guys want to be cool, rather than piloting minivans through their towns and cities.

When I packed for the weekend, rather than adding a pair of heels or rewearing my snow boots when we were out on the town, I packed something a little more fashion - forward: the Reebok Fast Flexweave sneakers.

Rather than lug around the big diaper bag, we suggest you pick up a Petunia Pickle Bottom Cross Town Clutch ($ 95).

If it's hard for you to get out and about town, or if it's easier for you to videochat rather than attend an in - person visit, Womb can help you transition into life with your new baby.

«Rather than poorly serviced mono - estates bolted - on to market towns, we must plan for new neighbourhoods and community extensions which ensure that the housing provided offers a variety of tenure, with the provision of live / works spaces and local services, all in sustainable communities where people want to live and work,» comments Town and County Planning Association (TCPA) senior policy officer, Fiona Mannion.

Okay, okay, it's another presidential debate, basically in a town hall format, but with questions submitted by video rather than in person.

According to the actor, the musician rather than been grateful to Prophet Badu Kobi for providing him a car goes about in town spreading falsehood about the man of God who is willing t support every individual willing to spread the word of God.

Rather than the usual, meandering districts that typify most Congressional maps, California's new map boasts compact and geographically based districts that unify neighboring towns with similar cultural, socio - economic, and racial backgrounds.

Ukip's decision to hold its annual gathering in the northern town rather than a southern coastal stronghold is a direct challenge to Ed Miliband on his home turf.

Mrs. Bellone resigned as deputy town parks commissioner rather than move.