Sentences with phrase «street presence of»

Other reasons cited for the steady decline in bookshops are high rent (which has made it difficult to maintain a high street presence of late for the owners), parking fees — another factor that too is acting as a deterrent for buyers to actually travel to the bookshops — and supermarkets offering steep discounts on books and periodicals, luring customers away from the bookshops.

Not exact matches

Though it is acknowledged that both retail giants failed to keep up with the times, they have also been accused of failing to provide adequate online presence or more importantly, competitive prices for their customers; what can be learned from the fall of two former high street giants?

Their only obligations were to handle the nature of their presence at the street party i.e. info booth, entertainment, crafts etc. plus they provided at least 200 printouts of a How - to page that we gave them the template for.

Walmart is also looking to give up control of its Brazilian presence, but to invest in India, according to The Wall Street Journal.

-- Rocky Schiano, owner of Street Sounds NYC, an e-commerce business with presence on eBay and a storefront in Brooklyn, New York, which sells guitars, musical instruments and other music accessories.

Much like the launch of bitcoin futures last December, the presence of a major Wall Street bank is considered a harbinger for broader institutional adoption of digital assets.

Each of those four banks also have an outsized presence on Wall Street; each of them received taxpayer bailouts during the 2008 crash; each received secret, below - market interest rate loans from the Federal Reserve during the crisis; and three of them (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citibank) are currently holding tens of trillions of dollars in derivatives within the insured banking subsidiary — meaning there would be a forced taxpayer bailout if the derivatives blew up the bank.

There is a great deal of hand - wringing in the U.S. media today over the plight of Deutsche Bank, the big German financial firm that has a hefty presence on Wall Street.

Mr Mugabe is reportedly being kept with his wife and a number of advisors, while the military has maintained a presence on the streets of Harare.

Man, sure wish we cared less about size and form... if there's 2 or 3 believers, or 2 - 3000... or if we meet in a building or home or the street... and cared more about if the living presence of God in power is there.

Isaiah 64 gives us the language to cry out for God's forgiveness and beckon God's presence — in our homes, in our churches, on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, in the midst of the violence, materialism, injustice, and complacency that characterizes our present Empire.

A 911 call in Norfolk, Va., alerted police to the presence of a dangerous lion roaming the city streets.

On the other hand, there is no place where I feel the presence of Jesus more keenly than out in the street picking up trash.

Why not a method that invites a man to walk again down the street where he lives but this time in the presence of a Third?

He has to accept the permanent presence of Israelites in Damascus, where the streets are reserved for them.

DHS, recognizing the increasing presence of introverts and anarchists in virtual reality, is considering setting up an office where they can add the most «value» to a Second Life street.

«As a former New York City Police Officer, I know firsthand that the presence of gangs on the streets of New York have, and continue to, destroy communities, destroy schools, and destroy families,» Golden said.

It is now a shadow of its former self, with the English Defence League (EDL) having a stronger street presence and Ukip channelling anti-immigrant sentiment in a more mainstream direction.

«We must be conscious of what's going on overseas,» said city Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who stood at the side of Fifth Avenue, overseeing a strong police presence that stretched to the end of the parade route at 79th Street.

Tatchell, whose presence at Downing Street functions has been repeatedly vetoed in recent years, said a coalition of gay rights groups would hold a protest outside Downing Street in early September as part of a new campaign called Love Russia, Hate Homophobia.

Thousands of small high street businesses have ensured a brighter outlook for 2010 by establishing a presence online, according to eBay's third Online Business Index.

As multiple demonstrations, street fairs and Bastille Day celebrations are scheduled to take place over the weekend, «the public in New York City will see an enlarged presence» of police officers, Bratton said during a press conference in Sunset Park.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said this morning he understood why protestors continue to demonstrate in Lower Manhattan, part of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street presence that has been growing in strength and support thanks to more active involvement from unions and progressive groups.

But his presence has sparked angry protests by his critics who clashed with police outside Downing Street today as they demonstrated against President Erdogan's purge of political opponents in Turkey.

In light of current loopholes in state law, Senator Klein also announced his first budget priority of the legislative session would be to secure funding for street drug test kits that would enable local law enforcement to better detect the presence of synthetic cannabinoids sold over the counter at local stores and bodegas.

Meanwhile, the ideological - neuter Oke goes on a grand blitz of milking AD's primordial «progressive» value, in concert with his own reportedly rather high street presence.

Downing Street took the remarkable step of refusing to field a Cabinet minister on last night's Question Time after it objected to the presence of Alastair Campbell on the panel.

Moskowitz's network is already a huge presence within the city Department of Education — which provides a constant looming threat to both Mayor Bill de Blasio and the UFT — and on the streets of New York City.

Heavy police presence along the route from 57th to 75th Street failed to dampen the festive atmosphere as marchers representing both Jewish and non-Jewish organizations marked the 62nd anniversary of the state of Israel.

Constantinides, the Democratic district leader for the 36th state Assembly District and a lifelong resident of Astoria, said that over the last several months he has noticed a growing presence of litter and trash in Astoria, prevalent on both business thoroughfares and side streets.

The groups that hit the streets of Accra on Monday, May 7, 2018 under heavy police presence want government to rescind the decision of employing them onto the Heal Ghana module under the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo).

Mitchell had told the federation representatives that he had sworn in the presence of the armed officers in Downing Street but had not described them as plebs.

Scientists from the BOREA research unit first suspected the presence of microalgae in Paris streets after noting the characteristic green or brown color of gutter water and observing the presence of bubbles, which are the result of photosynthetic activity.

The 1980s presence in this clothing piece is totally defined and a great example of how trends actually (sometimes) finds its way from the catwalk all the way down to street style.

With rare footage and interviews, Williams offers a history of the genre from its beginnings on the streets of Compton to its presence in the mainstream music industry.

He's just a dark presence in a doorway off a cobblestone street, noticed only by a stray cat, until the sudden spill of light from a nearby apartment sweeps away the shadows and catches him like a fugitive in the spotlight, revealing the chagrined look on the face of... Orson Welles!

But the new sequel aims to combine both worlds (kinda), and has them teaming up to fight the increasing presence of gang violence on the streets of Chicago and around the barbershop itself.

This is the kind of town where everyone is involved with everyone else's business, the police station has a swear box (used to great subtle effect during an argument), underage drinking is overlooked to avoid young hoodlums wandering the street at night, and the town elders» largest concern is the presence of a living statue.

22 Jump Street is at its best when it's just letting itself have a lot of fun, with Tatum once again stealing the entire show with his sincere but dim - witted Jenko making great use of his superhero physical presence and abilities and his incredible, sincere reactions over the course of the movie — his response to finding out the true identity of the woman that Hill's Schmidt slept with is far and away the highlight of the movie and brought my theater down.

The presence of the charismatic Vin Diesel as street race kingpin Dominic nor that of the talented but criminally wasted women of the piece, Michelle Rodriguez (Dominic's girlfriend) and Jordana Brewster (Dominic's sister, who predictably falls for Brian), can not compensate for the bad dialogue, formulaic plotting (is it really a shock who the bad guy is?)

And the bike Wadjda wants so badly enters her field of vision on the bed of an obscured truck, so that it appears to fly into the drab, sandy Riyadh streets powered by some divine presence.

Tsui sets his avoidance dances in confined spaces (tiny apartments, backstage dressing rooms), but To's are set out in the open: a fountain in a public park, a street corner, a sidewalk (a similarly choreographed scene plays out as well early in Romancing in Thin Air, itself a kind of compendium of all of To's romantic comedies, where Sammi Cheng and Louis Koo wander outside the grounds of the hotel, oblivious to each others» presence despite occupying the same film frame).

Seasoning his performance with the right amount of arrogance and street smarts, Ehrenreich is an engaging presence in the midst of this rollercoaster - with - the - handbrake - off adventure.

I haven't seen «Darwin's Nightmare» or «Street Fight,» but I keenly miss the presence of Werner Herzog's «Grizzly Man,» the year's best doc.

Margot Robbie has made a dynamic presence for herself since her debut role in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street.

Despite the presence of luminaries Dench and Mirren, this category is the battle of the ingenues, with young awards - season darling Saoirse Ronan (a three - time Globe nominee at only 23) facing off against Margot Robbie, whose buzzy performance in I, Tonya has elevated her into the awards conversation she first skirted with her breakthrough role in The Wolf of Wall Street.

Hill has the flashier part as the egomaniacal wild card Efraim, and although it's not as great as his performance in the likeminded «The Wolf of Wall Street,» he's such a magnetic presence that it explains how someone like David could be charmed so easily.

The ordered social charm of this bourgeois family appears secure but the presence in the streets of Calais of the asylum seekers is unsettling.

Wall Street didn't do a lot for me, but I liked it for the most part, and the presence of the excellent audio commentary and documentary make this a DVD worth watching.

Her latest, directed in conjunction with Banksy - like street artist JR (an irrepressibly energetic and sweet presence, bounding around in his Stan Smiths), chronicles the installation of several frisky, large - scale public art projects, with tangents into Varda's own history and even a visit to Jean - Luc Godard's house.