Sentences with phrase «upon the city of»

In a petition supported by more than 118,000 people, we called upon the city of Houston's lead animal agency, the Houston SPCA, to commit to those lifesaving no - kill principles in the aftermath of disasters, including:

You play as an adventurer who comes upon the city of Kharé, where what seems like a normal city by the sea turns into a haven of villainy and foul magics.

Building upon the City of Chicago and DCASE's longstanding commitment to public art, OVERRIDE provides EXPO CHICAGO a key opportunity beyond Navy Pier to showcase works by leading international artists in neighborhoods throughout the city.

Building upon the City of Chicago and DCASE's longstanding commitment to public art, OVERRIDE provides EXPO CHICAGO a key initiative for the annual exposition to showcase works by leading international artists beyond Navy Pier.

Not exact matches

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison at the California City Correctional Facility with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6 - month training program.

Upon our arrival, we consulted with a friend of hers to plan our first day in the city.

When he first made his venture public in 2002, it was still just an idea, and he insisted it was contingent upon the construction of a bridge to replace the island airport's existing ferry service — a project with many detractors, including then city councillor Olivia Chow, now the area's NDP member of Parliament.

Upon returning to New York City, Ansari dives into the culture of dating apps on episode four.

If these houses are ranked upon the amounts of foreign loans outstanding on March 1, 1935, J. P. Morgan with 19.87 per cent, National City Co. with 11.71, Dillon, Read with 11.44, Chase, Harris, Forbes with 8.45, Guaranty Co. with 6.68 per cent, Bancamerica - Blair with 6.18 per cent, and Lee, Higginson with 4.23 per cent all rank above the highest Jewish house, which is Kuhn, Loeb with 2.88 per cent.

Drive down any major road this spring in Canada and you are liable to come upon one of those potholesthat appear after the spring thaws and eats up city buses.

Imagine an offshore rig as a small industrial city, one that leverages and depends upon virtually all sectors of the U.S. (and global) economy to function properly.

There's a critical mass of people working for Uber in the city and a strong regulatory authority, the Taxi and Limousine Commission, upon which the guild can exert influence to affect change in the industry.

Upon his return from China more than three years later, Nuttall worked for the Canadian Press for a summer, then took on the role as senior reporter leading to city editor of 24 Hours Vancouver.

The rich history of the American South meets the influence of metro Atlanta's global community, offering a variety of shopping, dining, and cultural experiences that draw upon the diverse tastes of those who call this city home.

We expect a certain modicum of civility in our Internet City, and trolls fall below our agreed - upon standard of behavior.

However, Los Angeles is slowly building the capacity to become a global center for innovators and entrepreneurs, as the city draws upon its considerable resources to embrace the technological challenges and opportunities of the fourth industrial revolution.

Upon arrival in Samba City, visit the warehouse of the Acadêmicos da Grande Rio, one of Rio's first group schools.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

(144,000 the new Jerusalem) * Revelation 3:12 and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: (Revelation 21:12) And it shall come to pass in the last days * Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

«Our treasury rifled; our credit shaken; the poor laborer asking vainly for his honest wages day after day; the rich official reveling in disreputable gains; an enormous debt heaped upon us we know not how; our schools decaying, our teachers cowering before their Catholic masters; our press, when it ventures to complain, threatened with violence or insulted by offered bribes; the interests of the city neglected, its honorable reputation gone.»

They devote a full day to visiting social ministry sites within the city; upon their return, students form new groups to construct symbolic maps of Atlanta that reflect their perceptions of the city.

It should also be noted that the public dominance of the cult did not just focus upon its physical presence in the cities.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

The destruction of the voting assemblies of the eastern cities, which came about as a consequence of their inclusion in the empire, effectively left competition in the practice of benefactions as the only means by which the civic elites could compete for power in their localities; and success in this was dependent upon attaining the patronage of the man who sat at the top of the social pyramid.

A «neutral» law, the Supreme Court has explained, is one that does not «target -LSB--RSB- religious beliefs as such» or have as its «object... to infringe upon or restrict practices because of their religious motivation» (Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v City of Hialeah, 508 US 520 [1993]-RRB-.

Upon seeing his forlorn little Amy bravely awaiting her train to the city, the father is arrested by the enormity of his betrayal.

Ignoring the warnings of American bishops that American teenagers would not likely be very interested in listening to what the Church had to say, John Paul called down an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the 800,000 youth who gathered with him in theMile High City, taking as his theme the words of Our Lord in John 10:10, «I came that they might have life.»

When natural disasters like floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes come upon neighborhoods, towns, cities, and countries so that homes are destroyed and lives are taken, we call these horrible events «acts of God.»

Under the air conditioning vent in his office, i.e. Lane Pryce's old office (Bert Cooper reminds him brutally of the «dead man, whose office you now inhabit»), Don happens upon the crumpled Mets pennant that had been an emblem of Lane's affection for New York, the city that killed him.

Upon his return from a political mission to Venice on behalf of that city's ruler, he died in Ravenna of malarial fever in September 1321.

The church people then might become like the «city upon the hill» that can not be hidden... instead of the «candle light under the bushel basket».

Last Friday, on May 6, Pope Francis was awarded the Charlemagne Prize, which is conferred annually by the city of Aachen, Germany, upon persons who in one way or another represent European ideals and contribute to European integration.

Upon being «dumped» by your parents at your new home, surrounded by strange people, in an alien city in which you don't know anyone, there is a part of which wants to run after your parents» departing car.

And it was there in the warm South Seas — the other side of the world from the city where men like Fly were «pent up in lath and plaster, tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks» — that at age twenty - three he found Nature's own paradise on an island in the Marquesas and in the arms of a woman he fictionalized as «Fayaway» in Typee (1846), the scandalous first novel he wrote upon his return.

And yet, in that very forcing of people upon each other, the city also breeds the inescapable notice of crime, filth, and disease» and thereby makes possible the sudden and utter conviction of guilt.

In the presentation, I mentioned that upon reading the story of Joshua and the Battle of Jericho for myself, I realized it was a story about genocide, with God commanding Joshua to kill every man, woman, and child in the city for the sole purpose of acquiring land.

Accordingly, an arrest was first made of all who pleaded guilty; then, upon their information, an immense multi-tude was convicted, not so much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against mankind.

Upon this model of hierarchy we have built our political systems — from the Greek city - state and the Roman Empire to feudal castes, the Holy Roman Empire, and modern nations.

Revelation 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

Just before landing in the New World in 1630, John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts, delivered a sermon describing what he and his fellow Puritans intended to found: «a city upon a hill.»

As followers of Christ, it is our moral responsibility to urge you to support and protect the International Affairs Budget, and avoid disproportionate cuts to these vital programs that ensure that our country continues to be the «shining city upon a hill.»

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

4 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2 and lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

«44 At the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries Americans had wavered about claiming to be a city set on a hill with the eyes of the world upon it.

He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.

Her book was refreshingly un-abstract and densely empirical, built upon an accumulation of lovingly rendered details about what works and doesn't work in modern city life.

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

Indeed, the very Summa of St. Thomas is still clearer, better expressed and more convincing than some of the manuals based upon it, which were my own staple diet here in the Eternal City nearly 35 years ago.

«We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world... till we be consumed out of the good land whither we are going.»

(It would be irrational not to feel grief upon hearing of the Oklahoma City bombing.)