Sentences with phrase «such as cities»

Within your county, there are different levels of government that also have the authority to level taxes, such as cities, school districts and water districts.

Last night, Texas lawmakers closed out the special legislative session without passing HB 14, the bill that specifically targeted Planned Parenthood patients by banning health centers from partnering with local government entities such as cities and counties.

They range from the local government level, such as cities and other municipalities, townships, districts and counties to regional, state and federal levels.

There is growing consensus that this stocktaking exercise could be a year - long process rather than a single event and could leverage the inputs and participation of non-state actors such as cities and business.

Another, and complementary, approach is to make more effort to bring down emissions outside the UN process, for instance by engaging «non-state actors» such as cities, local governments and businesses to do more.

Dealing with the paradoxes of these surreal environments — vast, impersonal constructions such as the cities of Las Vegas and Dubai and the remote, scientific colonies of the South Pole or a commercial space launch facility in New Mexico — Samaras» ongoing interest is in mapping political geographies and the psychological dislocation in the everyday.

Their study found that some locations, such as cities with good public transit, the desire to live in the city center is more of a priority than school quality.

The growth during the year was primarily driven by strong releases of new games, such as Cities: Skylines and Pillars of Eternity, and successful expansions of existing games, such as Europa Universalis IV and Crusader Kings II.

For Games that uses the Unity Engine, such as Cities: Skylines, Unity (https://unity3d.com/) is our service provider.

Dynasty Warriors 9 is the next hack and slash game with stealth elements that revamps the hardcore, fast - paced gameplay of the series with the introduction of the open world environment with day - night cycles and dynamic weather systems set in China that can be explored on foot, horseback or boat, though the game will focus on livable environments such as cities and towns as well as places where large battles take place.

Visitgreece.gr is the official tourism web site for Greece, run by the Greek National Tourism Organisation, where you'll find information on the main tourist destinations, such as cities, beaches, as well as activities, events and much more!

Congress exceeded its constitutional authority when it amended the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to cover states and their political subdivisions, such as cities and school districts, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week.

One of my other observations on Bali is the dynamic role of non-state actors such as cities, firms and regions who are making parallel commitments to reduce their emissions.»

According to the study, published in the journal IEEE MultiMedia, the subjects preferred the virtual street maps for navigating large areas, such as cities, and the virtual dioramas for assessing small groups of buildings.

Lead author Dr Bethan Purse from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology said, «Our new study indicates that environmental factors, particularly habitat, have made some areas of Britain such as cities more vulnerable to rapid invasion of the harlequin ladybird than other areas, even after recording intensity and proximity to initial invasion sites are accounted for.»

On the one hand, it aims to improve current poor knowledge about usage of the electro - magnetic spectrum by introducing cyber-physical nodes that will be capable of monitoring the wideband spectrum at a very large scale, such as cities and nations.

Different scenarios are added all the time in the development of the autonomous cars (such as cities, main roads, snow, exit ramps) that the car can manage, while increasing the driving speed and managing even demanding weather conditions with intelligence.

That's precise enough to ensure detection of small increases in trace gases due to large, distributed sources such as cities.

Areas with high fossil fuel emissions, such as cities and industrial zones, will have below - normal concentrations of heavy CO2.

However, under state law, that goal only applies to contracts issued by state agencies and authorities; it does not apply to state funding given to localities such as cities, counties, towns, villages and school districts, which amounts to approximately $ 65 billion annually.

She pointed to a recent partnership between the county and 35 government entities such as cities, towns, villages, school districts, the airport authority and Oswego County to buy salt for winter weather.

Most people know that Facebook Ads can target geographic locations, such as cities and zip codes, as well as demographics including gender, age and relationship status.

The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office has relatively few functions compared to other local law - enforcement entities, such as the city's police department.

You can pick a region on the map such as your city, country or state.

You can buy Teatulia's products in food stores, but a lot of people's first exposure to the brand may just come when they're dining out at a restaurant, such as City Bakery or Birdbath Bakery, or in their college's food hall, including the University of Michigan.

Right now, the only way to view the location information attached to a tweet is via a Google Maps overlay; but you can use Twitter's advanced search mode to search for tweets from around a certain location, such as a city.

The Facebook members gave their consent for Kogan to access information such as the city they set on their profile, the content they had liked and some limited information about friend groups and contacts.

I'm a big fan of how other clubs (such as City) get their business done early.

The biggest test for us, will be a dangerous force such as City.

I will hazard a guess though that its not as much as clubs such as City, United, Chelsea, Liverpool and maybe even the Spuds?

Al - Khelaifi, the sources said, wants either somebody capable of commanding the respect of the players to produce better performances — akin to Madrid's Zinedine Zidane — or somebody offering ideas to buy into, such as City's Pep Guardiola.

Now online access in the center city is easy and convenient in designated outdoor public spaces such as City Plaza, Fayetteville Street, Moore Square, the Raleigh Convention Center, and beyond.

You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third - party applications.

Second, reducing the usage of gas - switching [part of] large users such as city heating towards other fuels, and investing in the types of powerplants that can consume a variety of fuels; using gas while it's cheap and available, but being able to burn other fuels if needed.

Their answer was that they were planning on enlisting natural allies such as City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who had had their own differences with Cuomo.

According to Facebook, about 270,000 people downloaded Kogan's app, and gave consent for the creator to access information such as the city they set on their profile, or content they had liked.

The social networking site said that around 270,000 people downloaded the app and «gave their consent for Kogan to access information such as the city they set on their profile.»

The Bronx also includes several small islands in the East River and Long Island Sound, such as City Island and Hart Island.

They had hoped to hear invited candidates such as City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, former MTA chairman Joseph Lhota and Adolfo Carrion address issues like the New York Police Department's stop - and - frisk policy.

Because room and board and supplies are paid for by the Police Foundation, and not with taxpayer moneys, the initiative has avoided scrutiny from outside authorities, such as the City Council.

The bill is not specific to New York, but advocates and elected officials such as City Council Speaker Christine Quinn have said as many as 70,000 units of rent - stabilized units in the city are at risk of defaulting on their mortgages.

Mark - Viverito, who has repeatedly engaged the community and ethnic media since taking office, touched on many of the key points from her State of the City speech, as well as other topics that have made recent headlines, such as the City Council's controversial February 5 vote to give its members a pay raise of $ 36,000 a year, a higher rate than a special salary committee had initially recommended.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Bronx Democratic Party and Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein, leader of the Independent Democratic Caucus — a group of breakaway Democrats in a power - sharing agreement with Senate Republicans — endorsed him for the seat, which covers areas such as City Island, Throggs Neck, Silver Beach and Pelham Bay.

The stickers will be rolled out to city polling places on Tuesday, September 12 for citywide primary elections for local offices such as City Council, Comptroller and Mayor.

The remaining seven candidates want to establish checks and balances, such as City Council approval of the chancellor, council appointments to the citywide Educational Policy Panel, fixed terms for board members and budgetary oversight.

Some officials, such as City Councilwoman Margaret Chin, have voiced a concern that the 20 percent affordable quota is insufficient.

The system enables the drone to travel through terrain where human control and GPS are unavailable, such as a city street or inside a building.

«While Mayor Bloomberg often gets credit, the real story here was how NYC used all the tools at its disposal such as City Council passed ordinances, health code resolutions through the Board of Health, and administrative rulemaking,» Dr. Isett and coauthors write.

In a study published in October 2009 in the Journal of Mammalogy, Gehrt watched the movement of 181 radio - collared coyotes and noted their preference for natural lands within urban and suburban spaces, such as city parks and residential yards.

That is also the goal of Bonsai, a start - up developing a new programming language called Inkling to help businesses train their own deep - learning systems to solve organizational problems such as city planning and supply chain logistics.