Sentences with phrase «serves as a home»

Built in 1975 for US$ 55.7 million, the dome served as the home for both the Detroit Lions and the Detroit Pistons.

As the demand for housing has grown to far exceed the existing supply, many urban neighborhoods that have long served as a home for mostly low - and moderate - income households are now seeing an influx of higher - income households; in other words, they are experiencing gentrification.

It will also serve as a home automation assistant for turning on lights and providing information about traffic, weather, and stocks.

It has a sizable presence in the Eastern United States and its office in Rhode Island serves as its home base for projects taking place there.

We also serve as home to many former journalists from news organizations such as The New York Times, ABC News, Fox News, CBS News, Associated Press, Jerusalem Post and Women's Wear Daily.

Since the news broke that a homeowner had illegally cut down a tree earlier this week, that served as a home to many of the peacocks, organizations wanting to help have been contacting the city «including organizations throughout the Lower Mainland and throughout the province that care for peacocks,» said Rehal.

The impressive dual tower building in D.C. also serves as home to The Washington Post.

Cyprus serves as a home to several leading & major financial companies in the world, especially in the market of cryptocurrency trading.

New York (CNN)- As President Obama visited Ground Zero Thursday, the church that served as a home for volunteers and first responders on 9/11 was filled with memories of that day.

The region also serves as home to over 700 winegrowers and 85 boutique wineries specializing in small - lot, handmade wines that have garnered major awards at domestic and international wine competitions.

The 4,000 - passenger Norwegian Breakaway will make its debut next May with New York City serving as its home port, while the equally sized Norwegian Getaway will set sail on its maiden voyage May 2014 from Florida's PortMiami.

The Brandywine Valley, in particular, which serves as the home of Inn at Grace Winery, boasts spanning scenic southeastern Pennsylvania landscapes and various locally blended wines.

CBC 2018 also serves as home to the World Beer Cup.

Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School serves as the home venue for both the Suffolk University Men's and Women's tennis programs.

«New York, like many states, has served as home to millions of immigrants who over the years have shaped our State's and our nation's economy, culture and strength.

«New York, like many states, has served as home to millions of immigrants who over the years have shaped our state's and our nation's economy, culture and strength,» Paterson said.

He also added state support for another Metro Rail extension into the former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Terminal that serves as home base for the system's light rail vehicles.

The facility in which Hood will expand served as the home of Müller Quaker Dairy from 2013 to 2016.

The Times Union Center, 51 S. Pearl St., in downtown Albany, is a large sports and entertainment venue, booking concerts and other shows and serving as the home of the Albany Devils of the American Hockey League.

Fire swept through a slum around Aboabo in Kumasi Saturday evening and destroyed about 200 makeshift structures serving as homes to some settlers.

• $ 2 million for Syracuse University to renovate 11 Waverly Ave. in Syracuse into a multi-use veterans resource complex that will serve as the home of the university's Veterans and Military Families center.

«A yes for the bill would have provided an opportunity to truly reflate the economy and empower Lagos State in serving as home to more than 21 million Nigerians and as hub to the largest volume of businesses and foreign direct investments in Nigeria.

Labour's Jack Straw, who served as both home secretary and justice secretary and attempted his own reforms of the Lords when in government, urged the prime minister to consider calling a pre-legislative referendum to avoid a «trainwreck» to Commons business in light of the fact that the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats were «divided on this issue».

The late 18th century estate that's served as a home or meeting place for New York City's mayors since the 1940s is racking up infractions from the Department of Buildings, accruing six in just the last five months, the New York Post reported.

The Lower East Side political club that for years served as the home base for disgraced former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has failed to publicly disclose its finances, as required by law, for nearly two decades, an activist charges.

Straw served as home secretary, foreign secretary, leader of the house and justice secretary under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

It was previously represented by the left - winger Joan Maynard, once Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group and David Blunkett, once a similarly left - wing figure as leader Sheffield council, but later to serve as Home Secretary under Tony Blair.

In Kano, the Deputy Governor, Prof Abubakar Hafiz, who represented Governor Abubakar Ganduje, at the inauguration of 2017 Batch «A» corps members on Thursday in Karaye, urged them to regard wherever they were posted to serve as their home.

Alan Arthur Johnson (born 17 May 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who served as Home Secretary from June 2009 to May 2010.

He was a shadow Labour spokesman throughout the 1980s before serving as Home Secretary, from 1997, in Tony Blair's first term as PM, becoming Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 and then holding a series of other front bench roles until Labour lost power in 2010.

His leadership and guidance led to the establishment of a world center that serves as a home for scholars and fellows, from both the humanities and the sciences, to pursue interests in education and research on ethical and policy issues in the life and social sciences, in medicine and in the professions.

Mars One's modular habitat, illustrated here, will serve as home base for the first Martian settlers next decade... in theory.

But then ISS itself serves as a home to six microbe - filled humans who stay in orbit for as long as 6 months each and routinely shed skin cells when they exercise, comb their hair, eat, and do other activities that potentially can contaminate their isolated «built environment.»

The Rose Atoll near American Samoa covers more than 13,000 square miles, including coral reefs and a lagoon that serves as a home to sea turtles, birds and giant clams.

Musk the visionary sees that Earth can not serve as a home for humanity permanently.

The Liaoning province was a large peninsula that stretched into the ocean when the Changyuraptor roamed, Chiappe said, with lakes in the region serving as home to frogs and salamanders.

Your mouth serves as the home to billions of bacteria, including cavity - causing Streptococcus mutans.

The Westin Princeville is a beautiful resort to serve as a home base and best of all the staff made us feel this little slice of heaven was our second home.

Right now it's serving as my home office and as my filming room, so it houses a ton of stuff but it is missing some decorative pieces.

We're extremely grateful to Brooklyn's Deary Construction, which served as the home's general contractor, as well as Emily Henderson, who consulted on the interior design.

Think about it — a spider's web serves as a home, a place to store food, an incubator for eggs, and many other functions.

But seeing as wherever I live serves as both my home and my office and I spend more hours a day here than I care to think, finding a large enough, bright enough, homey enough apartment was priority one when moving last summer.

Light blue enameled petals serve as a home for the incredibly refined black, gold and white stamens.

The city is the financial and administrative heart of Tasmania, and also serves as the home port for both Australian and French Antarctic operations.

But this dating app serves as a home to all age groups.

As a result, it serves as a home to a million single people in search of some connection.

Flower patches arrange themselves in neat and even circles, and the Giant Tree serves as a home for all the little Punios.

Fox Searchlight is also creating a new, soon to be named, label which will serve as a home for projects in the horror, sci - fi and fantasy genres, including those produced and curated by del Toro.

Downers Grove is a suburb of Chicago that over the years has served as the home of an absolutely lovely old movie palace known as the Tivoli, actress Denise Richards and several members of my immediate family.

There isn't much of a penalty for going over the time limit, but it will advance you one day and send you back to the luxury hotel that serves as the home base.