Sentences with phrase «remarkable place on»

«Alongside New York it is the most remarkable place on the planet to enjoy culture.»

Not exact matches

Gillam's insight about the opportunities in construction's mid-market has produced remarkable results, placing Gillam Group at No. 1 on the PROFIT 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies.

It was one of the few places in the world that had mastered a technique called the gothic arch cut, which sharpens the steel on both sides into a parabolic edge, giving the blade both remarkable sharpness and strength.

Given the remarkable amount of emphasis placed on link building over the past five or so years, it's not surprising that third - party linking analytics tools have proliferated as well.

While decisive steps have been taken at several points in your history to place limits on the exercise of power, the nation's political institutions have been able to evolve with a remarkable degree of stability.

This speaks volumes about the remarkable wisdom, resourcefulness, courage, and godliness it would take to teach and lead in such times, and says a lot about the value God places on women even when the world does not.

With such tough competition on the grid during the season, it was a truly remarkable series of first place finishes.

The runaway Premier League leaders will secure their place in the last eight of the Champions League for just the second time in their history barring a remarkable last 16, second leg collapse when they host Basel on Wednesday, boasting a 4 - 0 first leg lead.

They now hold a 36 - point lead over second place Crystal Palace and have 100 points more than Chelsea and almost double the number of the Premier League's second placed team, Manchester City, making the fact that they still sit on top of the Premier League even more remarkable.

More than just a place where I share my parenting thoughts, recipes and home - learning activities, my blog has enabled me to embark on a remarkable journey of self - discovery and of the world I thought I knew.

Rochester is known the world over as a place where businesses can come to thrive and grow and the State will continue to empower the Rochester community in order to build on that remarkable strength.»

Arne Duncan has $ 4 billion - plus to push privatization (on the day this blog is published, he will visit a charter school in Brooklyn that achieves remarkable results; I assume he will not visit the one in Queens that is housed in trailers in a muddy field, placed there to help a developer sell apartments in a not - yet - built building).

«BASC hopes Natural England will see shooting as crucial to the ongoing conservation of this remarkable place and will take on board our views before confirming the SSSI designation.»

But on an atomic scale, it has remarkable properties: on magnetite, single metal atoms are held in place, or they can be made to move across the surface.

The study showed a remarkable reversal of diabetes in mice placed on the fasting - mimicking diet for four days each week.

The lenses are the core of a remarkable visual system that allows the animals to find dark hiding places on the ocean bottom.

This movie was assembled from images taken by an instrument aboard the NASA - European Space Agency Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and provides a remarkable galactic perspective on the Sun and its place in the Milky Way.

«Our work studying the cosmos these past two decades has led to remarkable understandings of our Universe and has placed Hawaii as the premiere location on Earth for astronomical research,» said Hilton Lewis, director of Keck Observatory.

I went there a few years ago on holidays, remarkable place.

It's remarkable how different style flourish on different people in different places, and simply being vigilant is key to taking it all in and finding inspiration.

Had he trimmed the fat a touch and maybe tacked on an extra track or two in its place, Ital's LP might have been something closer to remarkable.

A remarkable shame, then, that its obviously tacked - on ending places this film firmly in Hollywood's timid present and not its furious (i.e., 1970s) past.

Her presence at film festivals (such as Sundance, where she is a member of the selection committee), her film reviews in the Village Voice, Elle, Out, and the Advocate, and her commentaries on the public radio program «The World» have secured her a place as a central figure in the remarkable history of what she deems «cinefeminism.»

The film takes place over a summer at the Magic Castle, a motel - cum - extended - stay complex in the shadow of Disney World, focusing on Moonee (Brooklynn Prince, remarkable), a wild six - year - old, and Halley (Bria Vinaite), her equally uncontrolled mother.

It's really quite a remarkable achievement, and in this year where many films placed a watchful eye on refugees, Fire at Sea may have been the most compelling.

On the face of it, Dickinson might seem well - matched to Davies, the English writer - director whose penchant for penetrating studies of anguished women (The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song) ought to place Cynthia Nixon's performance in a recognisable spectrum, of distant voices and still lives.Instead, Davies's screenplay is remarkable mostly for an archness and artifice only partially redeemed by several of the performances.

The extent to which Preminger's long takes insist on closure, on the subordination of all elements to the limits of time and place, is remarkable for the classical Hollywood cinema, which is usually only «realist» within a small area bounded by a larger area that is purely fantastic.

Drawing on the remarkable talents of its high - powered cast, this wonderfully offbeat film is filled with surprises and proves that magic can be found in many places.

This Christian Aid Week, 13 - 19 May 2012, focuses on the story of remarkable change taking place in a community in rural Sierra Leone.

Since its inception, I've regarded Race to the Top (RTT) as an important and valuable idea, but I also spent much of last fall and winter arguing that the administration's program design was not equal to the weight it was being asked to bear (what with its murky criteria for judge selection, ambiguous scoring system, focus on promises and grant - writing rather than accomplishment, and the remarkable emphasis that Secretary Duncan placed on union «buy - in» in round one).

This holistic approach has yielded results in places like Putnam City West High School in Oklahoma City, where educators have engaged parents and the community to boost the graduation rate of Hispanic students by 70 percent; and Denver, where the teacher - led Math and Science Leadership Academy is taking a collaborative approach that focuses on mentoring and professional development to boost student achievement; and in Las Vegas, where a teacher empowerment program has led to remarkable gains, including at Culley Elementary School, a «high achieving» school where only five years ago, less than a quarter of students were at grade level.

However, by the time we finished in first place, I was hooked on the off - road racing constellation: intense competition, remarkable friendship, and high - speed motoring over incredibly diverse terrain through some of the planet's most picturesque and hauntingly beautiful locations.

It feels rock steady and perfectly balanced, but what makes it feel more like a sportscar than an SUV is a remarkable absence of body roll and the accuracy with which it can placed on a track thanks to the deftness of the steering, which responds brilliantly to small, precise inputs.

They do a remarkable job at keeping you in place without discomfort, even on longer drives.

On Hitler's Mountain is a powerful, intimate, riveting, and revealing account of a seemingly halcyon life lived mere paces from a center of evil and madness; a remarkable memoir of an «ordinary» childhood spent in an extraordinary time and place.

Fire Season is Connors's remarkable reflection on work, our place in the wild, and the charms of solitude.

-- The Washington Post «Adam Johnson's remarkable novel The Orphan Master's Son is set in North Korea, an entire nation that has conformed to the fictions spun by a dictator and his inner circle... Mr. Johnson is a wonderfully flexible writer who can pivot in a matter of lines from absurdity to atrocity... We don't know what's really going on in that strange place, but a disquieting glimpse suggesting what it must be like can be found in this brilliant and timely novel.»

«To answer it, she embarked on a remarkable journey across the country,» reads the book's description at Amazon, «and spent the evening with all sorts of people in all sorts of places — hipsters in Los Angeles, car cruisers in small - town Indiana, coeds in Boston, the homeless in New York, a lounge band in Portland, quinceanera revelers in Phoenix, and more — to chronicle the one night of the week when we do the things we want to do rather than the things we need to do.»

We count on the support of our members to preserve the Golden Gate National Parks and to ensure the vibrancy of these remarkable places that belong to all of us.

Cove Rock, whilst not renowned for its swimming, is nonetheless one of the country's most remarkable sandstone formations that serves as a wonderful venue for breeding seabirds, a whale watching vantage point, a perfect fishing spot and a great place for observing nature and simply «being» on the beach.

There are a million places to stop and admire on this remarkable journey, so, unfortunately, you'll have to pick and choose where to stop and where to pass by.

It's a remarkable place and here are my top ten reasons to go on a surf trip there.

The villa comprises a series of pavilions, including a remarkable open - living space modelled on a Balinese wantilan (village meeting place), an elevated dining pavilion, a TV lounge, two kitchens and six bedrooms (including a purpose - built bunkroom which can accommodate five children).

Cenotes, remarkable flooded limestone caverns, are rare natural wonders that can found in few places on the planet.

With its location on a dramatic ridgeline surrounded by sheer cliffs and the Urubamba River on three sides, the city of Machu Picchu is a remarkable place to visit.

As a result the ruins are still in fantastic condition and given the location of the city — on a dramatic ridgeline surrounded by sheer cliffs and the Urubamba River on three sides — it truly is a remarkable place to visit.

It's quite remarkable to see how much power manufacturers are willing to place in cheaper devices and it's great that gaming on the go doesn't have to be expensive — as long as you don't get your hopes up too high.

The changes and cutbacks Konami has made here aren't exactly an issue (and many of them are difficult to spot on the low 400x240 resolution screen) and it should be stated for the record that the 3D effect is in places quite remarkable - to the point where we could have taken a drop down to 30 FPS for 3D support on PS3 and Xbox 360.

Battlefield 1 has a remarkable campaign that rivals the greatness that was Bad Company 1 & 2, and a brave new set of multiplayer options to get your boots muddy, reaffirming its place as the best multiplayer shooter on the market.

The expedition that takes place on the other side of the television screen is nearly as remarkable.