Sentences with phrase «taking over the city of»

One of these guys, an Anabaptist named Melchior Hoffman, convinced his followers to take over the city of Münster and make it the New Jerusalem, where everyone had visions and practiced polygamy.

Instead, the church opens the gates to the charismatics and they have taken over the city of God and set up an idol in its center.

They have completely taken over the cities of Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and Hamtramck and are working on Sterling Heights a number of other Metro Detroit cities.

Over the centuries, many popular uprisings bitterly protested the salt monopoly, including an angry mob that took over the city of Xi'an, just north of Sichuan, in 880.

On March 1 - 4 puppets will take over the city of Santa Barbara for a family - centric event (plenty of night time fun for adults, too!)

In town with DALeast, Nychos, Saner, Dan Witz or Jeff Soto, the NYC - based Gallery took over the city of Berlin and Urban Nation with a series of new pieces.

This September, Lonely Whale Foundation is taking over the city of Seattle to celebrate the ocean - positive leadership of over 100 bars and restaurants, the Space Needle, Seatac Airport, Columbia Hospitality Group and both CenturyLink and Safeco Fields.

Not exact matches

This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

In 1994, at age 29, he took over the kitchen as executive chef and part - owner of Le Bernardin after the sudden death of Gilbert Le Coze, who had opened the New York City seafood hotspot with his sister in the late «80s.

The city's Palmer Park Preparatory Academy was recently on the cover of Education Week for becoming a teacher led school in which teachers take over administrative duties.

If everything goes according to plan, Zappos will take over the old city hall — a slightly loopy paean to 1960s Modernism with a circular courtyard and an 11 - story tower that for some reason has no windows on one side — at the end of 2013.

The City of Vancouver has moved to take over the Olympic Village — now a struggling luxury condo project — and place it in receivership in hopes of recouping some of the $ 740 million in taxpayer funds invested in the project.

«Folks from all over this city — including many Council members, including the public advocate and the comptroller — have been fighting for Fair Fares for years now and just this week, we've taken an enormous step forward thanks to the members of the City Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he scity — including many Council members, including the public advocate and the comptroller — have been fighting for Fair Fares for years now and just this week, we've taken an enormous step forward thanks to the members of the City Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he sCity Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he said.

After he took over as executive vice-president for construction in 2007, Ben Aïssa continued to land large contracts in Libya, including the construction of a $ 500 - million airport in the city of Benghazi.

Binelli talks with the artists who are taking over stretches of the city, drawn by incredibly cheap rents and the city's aura of gritty «authenticity.»

Thanks to pockets of investment for things like a new $ 1.2 billion medical center that will spearhead bio-tech research, and a staggering $ 70 billion in federal aid that has gone to rebuilding infrastructure — including a $ 15 billion state of the art levee system — Landrieu says, the city has created 9,100 new jobs since his administration took over in 2010.

Since then, Covington has taken over more plots, growing Brussels sprouts, Swiss chard, bok choy and okra, and offering up the tantalizing vision of a great American city's return to agrarian living.

The case is even stronger where IoT vulnerabilities affect the critical infrastructure (e.g., Israeli researchers recently demonstrated that they could take over all the smart lightbulbs in a city the size of Paris by attacking only one).

At the San Francisco event, Apple executives also showed footage of helicopters flying over major world cities taking aerial photographs that will be incorporated into Maps» three - dimensional renderings.

This takes a little bit of time and is more imprecise, but if there are a lot of pings over the course of a year from the same IP address in the city that matches your competitor's corporate office address, then there's a good chance it's from someone from their office checking out your website.

Part of that was an ill - fated attempt to take over Circuit City, which went bankrupt soon afterward.

The Buc Days Carnival opens tonight and kicks off 10 days of pirates taking over our city!

Projects took place in several New Orleans neighborhoods over the course of the week, and I personally assisted with the restoration of homes in one of the hardest - hit areas of the city.

That's largely because over the last six months, Bird has plunked roughly 1,000 «Birds» on the streets of the city — and people are riding them: 50,000 people so far have taken 250,000 rides, he says.

After lunch, re-board your coach for a panoramic drive to Posillipo Hill, where you'll have time for photographs and breath - taking vistas over the city and Gulf of Naples.

According to the civil defense authority in Iraq — where ISIS has taken over several cities — the group intentionally blew up the tomb of Jonah.

They've already taken over parts of Syria and an area in Northern Iraq that's roughly the size of Belgium and includes the country's second largest city.

In the city of Mosul, which has been taken over by ISIS, Christians were given a July 19 ultimatum: convert to Islam or be executed.

On Saturday a deadline that was issued by the militants resposible for taking over large swathes of Iraq expired, with ISIS militias reportedly seizing churches and Christian homes in the city.

Within a year, perhaps after an encounter with Pope Boniface VIII in 1301 — Dante may have been part of a political mission to the Holy See — he was sent into exile when an opposing Guelph faction in Florence took over the city.

The downtown is still picturesque, but much of the time it's also empty; people do their shopping at one of the new malls that have taken over the farmland around the ever expanding city limits.

In contrast, my own Chicago parish church and elementary school are located on two city blocks that together take up ten acres, but those blocks include — in addition to the church and school — over 100 dwelling units in a variety of buildings two - to - three stories tall, more than 15 businesses, and nearly 200 on - and off - street parking spaces for the public.

Usually they were located in what was once a «better part» of New York or some other large city, which had been taken over by recent immigrants.

He went up, John says, «not publicly, but almost in secret,» as if he wished to observe without being observed, taking the temperature of feeling in metropolitan circles.2 But «when the festival was already half over» he was moved to address the crowds in the temple.3 What he said so incensed them that he was in danger of being lynched.4 In the Fourth Gospel this episode is made, after John's manner, the setting for a whole series of dialogues and discourses which are evidently his own composition, though they contain undoubted reminiscences of earlier tradition, but there seems no valid reason to reject his statement that in September or October Jesus was in Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostility.

When his father passed away in 2009, Smith took over leadership of The City Church, Seattle.

«The supermarket heavens of my new neighbors,» Jan writes from his suburban apartment in Washington, D.C., «which draw a veil over suffering and therefore make no sense of it or of anything else, take me back to those beautiful, terrible days, when our dear city turned in its sleep and its dreams were dreams of a crucified God.»

I preach unorthodox, even heretical sermons fairly often, and, three years ago, the board took the results of the sale of some property, over a million dollars, and set the proceeds aside... for the meeting of human need in this city.

This line of separation has become less acute than it was fifty years ago when the famous Dayton trial over the right to teach evolution in the public schools took place, and in the same year of 1925 Harry Emerson Fosdick had to leave the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of New York City because of his theological views.

How we took an hour and a half to walk one time around a lake that should take only 25 minutes, about how we stood on the bridge, and watched the moon fade into the coming day over the blue lake water in this western city in the country, how we ate blueberries they picked with their own hands, and we felt the wonder of it all, all three of us, quiet, and watching a ghost moon, together, and it felt like prayer, and a cathedral, and communion, and a gift, and kingdom come.

The New York Times: City Urges Requiring Consent for Jewish Rite New York City health officials proposed on Tuesday that Orthodox Jewish parents be required to sign a consent waiver before they can take part in a circumcision ritual that is believed to have led to the deaths of at least two babies in the city over the past decCity Urges Requiring Consent for Jewish Rite New York City health officials proposed on Tuesday that Orthodox Jewish parents be required to sign a consent waiver before they can take part in a circumcision ritual that is believed to have led to the deaths of at least two babies in the city over the past decCity health officials proposed on Tuesday that Orthodox Jewish parents be required to sign a consent waiver before they can take part in a circumcision ritual that is believed to have led to the deaths of at least two babies in the city over the past deccity over the past decade.

It took me moving to a new city, switching career paths and leaving everything I knew behind to make me realize that growth is a cycle that starts all over at every stage of your life.

Here, for instance, is a mailing from the Coalition on Revival that announces «a new move of God» to create a «Spiritual Army of Christians» to take over sixty major cities in North America in the next twenty years.

The Bishop of Salisbury is to take part in a special service this weekend to celebrate community life in the city and to pray for «cleansing» over the site where a former Russian spy was targeted in a nerve agent attack.

This new kingdom would be «a city on a hill» and its power would come from contrasting itself with the kingdoms of this world — not by taking them over or improving upon them.

Soon it became customary, at least in the city of Rome, to take a fragment of bread from the celebration of Communion at the central gathering place (where the bishop presided over the service) and place it with the bread for Communion at the other worship services.

In the largest climate march in history, over 400,000 people made their voices heard at the People's Climate March on the streets of New York City on Sunday, with thousands taking part in solidarity events in 166 countries.

For our 20th, since we didn't get to take a big trip or anything (he taught for the summer session of school), he surprised me with a bunch of my favorite concerts over the last month, including New Kids On The Block / Paula Abdul, David Archuleta, the Utah Symphony and GENTRI and we got to spend some time together in Salt Lake City.

Having to go the the library to look up phone numbers (remember all those big phone books for each city taking over a whole section of the library) and then making one long distance call after the other to find out rules and regulations for shipping plants, seems so time consuming today.

Until he took on the herculean task of combing through over a century's worth of menus from L.A. restaurants to see if he could learn something about the city's history.

Brock, who's been in Charleston for a decade, talks about living in the city back in the age of «tasteless rice and beans,» whiskey, the veg he'd take over okra any day, and how to party in Nashville.