Sentences with phrase «town after town»

It can send a powerful message, if town after town, city after city, around the world issues a ban on new fossil fuel projects — even if largely symbolic.

Hailing from town after town — Bucharest, Cape Town, Brussels, Cologne, Salzburg, London, Dusseldorf, Dublin, Los Angeles, Oslo, Istanbul, Vienna, Rome, Sau Paulo, Tel Aviv, not to mention New York, gallery after gallery was showing flat - out, unapologetic, freshly painted abstract art.

Despite relapses of failing eyesight and crippling rheumatism, he continued to lecture on Spencer's behalf, dragging himself around the Midwest in unheated trains to proselytize in town after town where often, he would recall, he encountered «a protracted meeting in full blast at every church in town except the Episcopal, and a general feeling of pious rage at my appearance on the scene.»

AMISOM together with Somali and Ethiopian forces have driven Al Shabaab out of town after town.

«I've had town after town, county after county, tell me that they had somebody interested in locating a company or jobs there, but since they didn't have shovel - ready sewer and water, they didn't come,» said Schumer.

The «Common Chest» was an actual piece of well - made furniture, and with its prescribed number of locks whose keys were held by specified officials representing various strata of society, it was to become a veritable symbol of the social and economic changes as it was set up in town after town in the coming decades.

The marchers, numbering twenty thousand by the time they reached D.C., became a national sensation, and Cox's Army had received a hero's welcome in town after town on their way to the nation's capital.

Not exact matches

After a lunch in the school cafeteria, McConnell heads across town to the Pikeville Medical Center.

In separate phone calls to British and Turkish leaders this week, Xi called for an investigation into the alleged chemical attack in the town of Douma by the Syrian government, days after the US and its allies struck three targets in Syria in retaliation.

Fire crews have extinguished a fire that raged in Oregon after a Union Pacific Corp train carrying crude oil derailed on Friday and burst into flames near the Columbia River in the town of Mosier., the Federal Rail Administration said.

He, along with his inner - circle members Fred Mossler, Arun Rajan, and Hollie Delaney, held four town halls the day after employees received the email in order to field questions.

Imagine your communities with fewer places to work — after all, there aren't a whole lot of large companies willing to relocate to a town of just 5,000 people — with fewer employed people.

After the Philippines trip, Evans spent an academic year at Woodstock, an international boarding school near Dehradun, a town close to the Himalayan foothills in India.

Burned out homes in the Abasand area of Fort McMurray on May 9, after wildfire forced the evacuation of the town.

The U.S. - led airstrikes, which U.S. President Donald Trump described as «perfectly executed,» came after the likely use of chemical weapons in an attack by the Syrian regime on the town of Douma earlier this month.

Adopted as a young boy after getting lost and separated from his family in India, as a young man, Brierley used Google Maps to jog his memory, ultimately reuniting with his birth mother, who stayed in the same town where he was born.

Meanwhile, after remote towns in North Dakota surged with thousands ready to work the Bakken, the luxury apartments built to accommodate them are half - vacant now that demand has died down.

One night long ago, my business partner Ed Moed and I tore up the town after being named PR Week's best small agency of the year.

After the dam's water levels steadily rose from Thursday through the weekend, authorities on Sunday evening ordered the evacuation of nearly 200,000 residents in several northern California towns.

«The property is in a sought - after location close to the proposed Baldivis town centre, a primary school, and other land estates, and is situated 1.7 kilometres from the Mundijong Road - Kwinana Freeway access.

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters)- Seven years after being devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, L'Aquila's abandoned city center is a stark reminder of the struggle facing Italian towns hit by a quake last week.

Television networks ran a photo said to have been taken shortly after the crash that showed overturned restaurant tables in the city's old town on one of the first sunny weekend afternoons this spring.

These acquisitions may revive ailing towns» hopes of rescue by the rich, deals that got a bad rap after Kim Basinger bought Braselton, Ga., for US$ 20 million in 1989, then had to sell it to a developer four years later for just US$ 1 million.

The handover plan was announced after Euphrates Shield forces attacked several villages under SDF control east of the town of Al - Bab last week.

«We've got a lot invested in our brand,» John Mackey, the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, told a company town hall after the Amazon deal was disclosed.

«When we started, we were very focused on the 18 - to - 25 crowd in university towns coming to us after the bars,» says Smolkin.

ISTANBUL, March 18 - Turkish - backed Syrian rebel fighters took control of parts of the town of Afrin on Sunday after Kurdish YPG forces pulled out, a spokesman for the Free Syrian Army rebel fighters said.

The population of Tal Afar was mix of Sunni and Shi'ite ethnic Turkmen until Shi'ites fled the town after Islamic State's takeover two years ago.

Turkey has threatened to march on Manbij and wrest it from Kurdish hands after its forces won a resounding victory over Kurdish fighters earlier this month and took control of Afrin, a town 60 miles (100 kilometers) to the west.

After an accounting scandal in the late 1990s, Hammergren, a then 40 - year - old of modest upbringing from small - town Minnesota, was named co-CEO.

The office, which is based in Wheeling, a sleepy and picturesque town just south of the Ohio border, had for years been aggressive in going after the bad actors involved in the region's opioid crisis.

More modern company towns, like Hershey, Pennsylvania (named after famed chocolatier Milton Hershey's candy corporation), gave residents say in what the town prioritized.

A few years after Lowell's death in 1823, a group of his associates founded the town of Lowell (about 20 miles north of Waltham) in his name and a series of textile mills under a new company name (the Merrimack Manufacturing Company).

Maj. Roman Filipov was flying over the town of Maasran in Idlib province after conducting airstrikes in the region when his Su - 25 was hit with what Russian authorities said was a MANPAD.

Allegedly run by a local, Jose Antonio Yepez, the gang is known as the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel, after a small town 60 kilometers east of Salamanca.

Shortly after the alleged chemical attack on the last rebel - held town in the Eastern Ghouta region of Syria, President Donald Trump blamed Russia President Vladimir Putin and Iran for their respective roles in providing support to the Syrian government.

Netflix description: «After a mysterious disease kills every resident over 22 years old, survivors of a town must fend for themselves when the government quarantines them.»

The attack comes just days after a separate incident involving union workers at a soon - to - be shuttered Goodyear plant in the French town of Amiens, who held two executives hostage as they sought to negotiate bonus and severance packages.

NAMIE, Japan, March 27 - At a small plant intended to help revitalise a town ravaged by the 2011 earthquake, Nissan Motor Co is giving its costly electric vehicle batteries new life after they pass their peak performance.

NEW YORK, March 27 - Puerto Ricos Government Development Bank, the islands insolvent former fiscal agent now in wind - down mode, has tweaked its $ 5 billion debt restructuring deal to help keep small towns afloat six months after Hurricane Maria.

She was a phenomenal producer — the cat's meow, as my mother would say — and every big player in town was after her.

After New York, the company will add one U.S. city at a time, most likely a mix of towns with dense populations and smaller tech hubs (where the potential base of interested players might be larger).

A close observer of mid-Manhattan's changing commercial geography, he saw «a new society» rising on Park and Fifth Avenues after the completion of Grand Central Terminal, «a society made up of women who willing to pay well for things a cut or town above the ordinary,» as a 1938 Fortune article observed.

It is, after all, a union town and unions are very good at driving members to the ballot box.

AMMAN (Reuters)- After Syrian forces bombed the town of Douma earlier this month in an attack the United States says involved chlorine gas, Washington and its allies launched missile strikes as punishment.

The apparent chemical attack in Douma, a rebel - held town in Syria, over the weekend came days after Trump said he wanted to pull U.S. forces out of the country.

With all but a handful of towns counted, victory was declared for the Leave campaign shortly after 4 a.m. local time Friday morning, or about 11 p.m. Eastern time.

Greenberg's girlfriend Abby Mayer discovered him after returning from a weekend out of town to the house the couple shared.

Carlson also tells a jaw - dropping anecdote to illustrate Mayer's occasional tone - deafness: After upsetting employees with a number of new H.R. policies, including a widely hated performance review system, Mayer held a town - hall meeting to address their concerns.

When I think of ghost - town stores — the sort I'd flee after absent - mindedly wandering into them — I usually picture Future Shop.