Sentences with phrase «upon the city for»

Every year, those who don't already live in Montreal descend upon the city for what I like to call «summer movie camp.»

This May, Venice will once again undergo its biannual transformation, temporarily becoming the capital of the global art scene as members of the art world descend upon the city for the opening of «Viva Arte Viva.»

Miami, Florida During the first week of December, Miami becomes the global center of the art world, as thousands of the best - known galleries and artists (not to mention some seriously discerning collectors) descend upon the city for what has become known as Miami Art Week.

Not exact matches

«The right to disconnect is interesting, especially for professions where you're constantly being called upon,» notes Jean - Noël Acqua, a Paris city councilor.

This small luxury chain — with properties in just 10 cities — sets the standard for amenities tailor - made for road warriors: gyms and business centers are available 24/7 upon request, jet - lagged execs can indulge in a rejuvenating «sleep ceremony» at the spa, and some locations have no set check - in time.

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.

That's because the CMIT Solutions name commands instant credibility — with more than 150 offices across the nation, CMIT Solutions is relied upon for affordable IT solutions in small and medium - size businesses in nearly every major city.

With more than 150 offices across the nation, CMIT is relied upon for affordable IT solutions in business markets in nearly every major city.

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.

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 authoriFor 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 authorifor 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.»

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.

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.

Camus believes that the source for sane behavior is not found in unruly cities, but in the sea, the hills and in evening meditations upon natural beauty.

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.

The whole reason Humanity is plagued by tribalism is because once upon a time, we all spoke the same language and worked together to build a city with a tower for the world.

The hill that formed the backdrop for Wintbrop's speech now has a city upon it, but it bears little resemblance to his vision.

So upon arriving in Atlantic City, I secretly gave all my money to Johnnie, (this was to cover something for Johnnie that was very personal, so I know he didn't share this with anyone).

Furthermore, after the massacre concluded, the plague left the city, which was seen as proof to the citizens that the Jews were the ones guilty for bringing the plague upon them in the first place.

After this a deep consideration came upon me, for what reason I should be sent to cry against that city, and call it The bloody city!

It depends for its delight not upon the situations and ambiguities of the drawing room, the cultivated folk of the city, but upon the exaggerations, the trickeries, the buffooneries, and the fantastic human types so richly produced by the conventionless frontier.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Nor will its use demand payment of fare, and no longer will His children need travel across land or sea, no, but upon the winds of the air as like He does, and shall dwell upon the clouds in great floating cities away from the foulness of the earth's sand upon which will crawl the wicked children, and the wicked hostesses except those which He sees fit to allow to visit the cloudy cities for reasons of firm discipline... (10:45) Round shapely... (10:63) And as it is written so shall it come to pass while I do live.

Several months ago a New Yorker article described the sensation among ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem caused by a Mississippi cattle breeder who noted an unblemished red heifer in his herd, read Numbers 19 and declared that the animal was a sign that the temple must be rebuilt in preparation for the millennial reign of Jesus — regardless of the escalation of mayhem such exegesis in action would heap upon Jews, Muslims and Christians in the Holy City.

Does that mean that the tribes of Simeon and Levi in alliance sacked the city of Shechem, in revenge for an attack upon a kindred tribe called Dinah?

* Isaiah 48:2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

A few years later, Frederick II was excommunicated by the Council of Lyons, purportedly for the reign of massacre and terror that he had inflicted upon cities throughout Italy.

The National Staff Council upon recommendation of the Executive Ministers Council (a professional organization of the Executive Ministers of the thirty - seven Region / State / City organizations) believed 1974 was the time for addressing a growing number of relational issues among the Affiliated Organizations and the ABC.

When, for example, Jesus entered triumphantly into the city of Jerusalem amid the acclaim of the multitudes, riding upon an ass, he was but fulfilling the word of Zechariah written centuries before, «Behold thy king cometh unto thee, meek, and riding upon an ass and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.

Once upon a time, back in May, Lara, Sondra, and I went to Salt Lake City for the Everything Food Conference (EFC), which was an amazing experience in itself.

Nabhan points out that with water capacity near its limit for cities and rural agricultural areas, «food security in the Southwest depends upon the security of water supplies being delivered to irrigable land.

We were walking around the downtown area (I can't for the life of me remember what city we were touristing that day) and came upon a farmers market.

The Brewers Association's 2018 Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) & BrewExpo America will descend upon Music City USA for four days of education and networking.

A writer, photographer, pitmaster, restaurant critic and consultant, he is also a Doctor of Barbecue, holding an honorary Ph.B (Doctor of Barbecue Philosophy) bestowed upon him by the prestigious Kansas City Barbeque Society for his expertise and commitment to barbecue.

Arsenal comfortably swept aside Stoke City at the Emirates this afternoon and Pierre - Emerick Aubameyang saw a plethora of praise heaped upon his shoulders for a number of reasons.

Will se but if he is to go to City make it a swap and get 1 or 2 of there players upon which you can (re) build a proper squad for 38 games.

Our win over City last season was one of the high points and perhaps our best performance and it was based upon a compact and defensive style, as we showed for the first time in a long time that we could soak up pressure and hit teams on the break.

For Ashley Cole's move to Chelsea (which was solely based upon his contractual demands) and some of the stars that went to City, I have no doubt that money played its part.

But intruding upon these, comingdown from the north across the miles of the city itself, there were ominous, unfamiliar sounds, and after listening for a while, Jimmy Winkfield knew whatthey were.

Spurs» interest in Bartra heavily relies upon Barcelona's transfer activity at the back, but the London club are interested in signing the young Spaniard as a great prospect for the club, having sold England international defender Steven Caulker to Cardiff City earlier this summer.

Shinawatra's ambition upon buying the club had been to transform Manchester City into one of European football's elite clubs, a club that could compete for domestic and European honours by buying the best footballers in the world.

The Premier League season is almost upon us - and the team warmed up for the Leicester City match with one final training session at London Colney on Thursday.

Athletic focus upon ball retention, but have slightly shifted their style since Aymeric Laporte's transfer to Manchester City, as his replacement — the controversial signing of Basque rival Real Sociedad captain for $ 32m — Iñigo Martínez is not quite as technically strong on the ball.

Pulis touched upon the bids made by Arsenal, Manchester City and Leicester City for his prized asset as speaking ahead of West Brom's clash with Leicester.

One key for Arsenal will be not letting their left flank get torn up again as last weekend at Everton; Wigan did score up that flank against City, so will be incumbent upon Lukas Podolski or whoever plays on that side to help Monreal and Vermaelen keep the Wigan attack at bay.

The Citizens have made several targets of a new goalkeeper this summer after Claudio Bravo was criticised for his poor form having replaced Joe Hart as the City's number one upon Guardiola's arrival.