Sentences with phrase «town built on»

In a town built on copyrights and cosmetic surgery, lawyers have done far more than pen the small print in studio contracts or post bail for hollow - eyed stars on the way to and from rehab.

Ladysmith is a picturesque town built on the hillside overlooking the harbour's glistening waters.

Bakerton is a company town built on coal, a town of church festivals and ethnic neighborhoods, hunters» breakfasts and firemen's parades.

David Oppegaard is the author of The Town Built on Sorrow (Sept. 2017, Flux); the 2016 MN Book Award finalist The Firebug of Balrog County (Flux); the Bram Stoker - nominated The Suicide Collectors (St. Martin's Press); And the Hills Opened Up (Burnt Bridge); and Wormwood, Nevada (St. Martin's Press).

Not exact matches

And most remarkably, although Cape Town sits on a long seacoast hugging the southern Atlantic Ocean, officials delayed building desalination plants for the city.

FOND PARISIEN, Haiti — Two Haitian brothers came back to their homeland to build a livelihood on Lake Azuei, a turbulent expanse of water that has often been cruel to those living along its shore, flooding homes in the border town of Fond Parisien and blocking a key highway into the Dominican Republic.

Reconstruction here has been held up by bureaucracy and corruption, while billions of euros were spent on unpopular housing projects, or «new towns», with rows of identical dwellings built on special quake - proof platforms.

Trapped by mortgages for apartments built on barren steppe under communism, residents of Sayanogorsk, one of a string of towns dominated by Rusal, have few options if a loss of customers for its aluminium leads the firm to cut jobs.

That factory's original owner, which sold the building and real estate to an associate of Gillman — and self - financed the sale — has now foreclosed on the property and is seeking to sell it, according to the feisty and invaluable Chi - Town paper.

The device also has a 120 - degree wide - angle HD camera built in, so you can see what's happening at home at the office, from across town, or on the other side of the world.

Stuyvesant Town, a sprawling complex of 56 high - rise brick buildings with a private park on 80 acres on Manhattan's East Side, was at the center of a $ 3 billion default five years ago.

In a town where a lot of graduates can't wait to get up and leave, he stayed here and built a very successful company, putting Gainesville on the map.»

On barren hills and swamps at the outskirts of the city, Lee's government over the past twelve years has built the satellite town of Jurong, which in addition to housing and retail stores is crammed with 510 factories; another hundred will be completed this year.

DeGroote built his businesses from Hamilton, so it's natural that his charitable giving would focus on the town's educational facilities.

As they continued on their headlong march into transparency, McDonald's Canada conceived of the Listening Tour, based on town halls held by the company's former U.S. president Jan Fields, to build relationships with key, sometimes antagonistic, constituencies.

Over the past 20 years, Bangladesh has become a company town for the garment trade, building its hopes of economic growth to a staggering degree on the manufacture and export of clothes.

- The idea is not only to focus on the foot traffic but to advertise to the various cooperate companies within and also to make deliveries on the nearby office buildings and cater for the major business meeting around the Arlington down town area and if we grow we will expand to other cities.

He is building a brand new service center on the outskirts of town.

Our mission is to support the growth of public banking in Massachusetts, initially focusing on an infrastructure bank to help cities and towns with the costs of upgrading buildings, roads, and water systems, with environmental remediation and adaption to a changing climate, and with improving city services.

This town believes in lots of elbow grease and an emphasis on the fundamentals of building terrific businesses.»

No, the CRTC would go to town on a building [for that].

He goes on to say that if you lived in a small town, and if you owned the best apartment building in town, if you owned the highest quality office building in town, if you owned the McDonalds franchise in town, if you owned the Ford dealership.

Churches were built on choice real estate in the center of town or on the highest hill.

Yeah, Stn, the «people who surround» Israel are clearly ingrates who don't «appreciate» it when Israel ethnically cleanses them, imposes apartheid on them, steals their land and homes, builds Jewish - only roads and colonies on their land, destroys their crops and livelihoods, builds 30 - foot walls around their towns, bombs them, starves them, kidnaps them, humiliate them, and tortures them.

(One high school in town didn't have the Mormon seminary building on campus.)

(Only one high school in town didn't have the Mormon seminary building on campus.)

(One public high school in town didn't have the Mormon seminary building on campus.)

The Poles were poor, poorer than the Irishmen who built St. Peter's less than a quarter of a mile away, and poorer even than the Italians who erected Holy Name Parish on the opposite side of town.

Nuisance troublemaking against Christians goes on quite unnoticed in the smaller towns and villages, but the problem in Islamabad became a cause célèbre because a number of diplomats worship in the house parish that seeks to build a permanent church.

This style of religious architecture had a lasting effect on the architecture of New England and other kinds of buildings — schoolhouses, town halls, libraries, even factories and mills.

Across town, on the Gallowgate road, Tommy Carberry pulls pints in Bairds Bar, a building daubed in the green hue synonymous with Celtic Football Club.

Once upon a time» well, actually, it was in 1897, on the campus of the public university that the citizens of South Dakota had just built in the town of Vermillion to express their pride in their recently achieved statehood.

On the long walk to town, evil spirits threatened me with death if I entered the building.

The brow on which Nazareth was built is still visible and easy to see on entering the town.

For many theologically literate people, the «place» of religious experience is a local church, a particular building on a particular street in a particular town.

Where I live we are building houses on prime farm land and every town or village is expanding.

A few years ago, a major in the Salvation Army described his congregation's move from an old building on the edge of town to a new building at the town's center.

We are outside the four walks and absolutely love living in the liberty of the Spirit... we get to serve kids at poverty level and have become good friends with them... it's refreshing to be accepted by them when rejected by the religious leaders in town for not going on Sunday to their building.

I was mesmerized when I saw him appear on the balcony of a building in Cape Town, face an awed audience of half a million, and acknowledge the reality of the past.

They usually built their towns on islands adjoining the mainland for purposes of defense against the tribes of the hinterland, settled down and married African women, and traded in gold, slaves, ivory, and other African products.

Rather, new factories were built, usually on the outskirts of small towns in heretofore rural America, where the mechanization of farms made available a pool of cheap, plentiful labor.

In 1823, Charles Kellogg built a flour mill on the banks of Bear Swamp Creek in the town of Sodom, N.Y..

This charming town right on the lake is host to the reknowned Bregenzer Festspiele, held on a spectacular stage built right into the lake Constance shore.

Despite presidential candidates» talk of building walls between the United States and Mexico, the economies of Texas border towns such as Brownsville have never been based solely on companies and consumers on only one side of the border.

It was built on a greenfield site located at Aston Clinton, Aylesbury, a county town of Buckinghamshire, UK.

The current facility was built in 1958 on 127 acres in the town of Cataño.

Located on a private lakefront in Montauk, a hamlet in the town of East Hampton, the Montauk Yacht Club Resort & Marina has been the preferred playground for a who's who of visitors since famed entrepreneur Carl Fisher built the original clubhouse in 1926.

In 1881, the Lombardo Family built their winery on the Mediterranean in the seaside town of Marsala located on the western coast of Sicily.

Form guide: United have built up some momentum in the last two games, beating Shrewsbury Town in the Emirates FA Cup before reaching the Europa League last 16 by defeating Midtjylland in resounding fashion on Thursday.

They wound up building their own small facility on the outskirts of town, and when you see these pictures of the ice down at Key Arena for T'Birds games, you quickly realize why: