Sentences with phrase «vast city with»

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The upside of the Motor City's epic struggle with abandonment is a vast supply of materials for high - end goods made by ambitious startups.

With its $ 4.6 billion investment in Suning Commerce Group last year, Alibaba also gained access to a vast network of store fronts and warehouses in smaller cities and rural areas.

You may be most familiar with statistics in cosmopolitan areas or inner cities but there is a vast wasteland in between and most of those on the dole are still white.

Since then, as in the United States, agribusiness has replaced subsistence farming and there have been vast movements of population to cities often unable to provide people with the minimum facilities of urban life.

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.

This gesture, of course, was expected; the City had title to vast stretches of vacant land in the Fast Brooklyn area, and no idea in the what to do with it.

The trophy win would prove to be a bigger achievement than in previous years, given the vast strength remaining in the competition, with Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham and Chelsea remaining all battling to left the trophy.

After the disaster in the League Cup final against Birmingham City in 2011 the pressure was really on the prof and the vast proportion of Arsenal fans along with almost every member of the football media did not want to listen to any excuses about the lack of money available to the the Frenchman.

The half - time substitution suffered in the defeat to Arsenal on Sunday could have been the last straw and an exit from the club could very well be edging closer, but with a vast amount of foreigners in the Manchester City squad, Pellegrini will know how important keeping the England international is.

An underachieving club with vast financial resources and a new manager is always going to be linked with a large quantity of players, and for new Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, that is indeed the case of his first season at the club.

More needs to be done to ensure that United can compete with City as the void between the two sides currently is pretty vast.

City boss Guardiola believes the veteran striker, who has vast of experience with Bilbao, Juventus and Sevilla, could add another dimension to City's attacking line - up.

The mayor «s forces handed Kelly «s vast powers over the park district, with its $ 230 million budget and 5,000 full - time and part - time jobs, to Jesse Madison, the city «s consumer services commissioner.

He tagged City bankers with the word «irresponsible» enough times to convince people he is not always necessarily on the side of the rich and powerful, but he dedicated the vast majority of his speech to highlighting exactly why the government was ultimately to blame.

They noted that the Bloomberg administration made its presence felt by donating vast sums of money to Senate Republicans, a conference with few members hailing from the city.

Mr. Linn, meanwhile, has managed to settle the vast majority of the city's outstanding labor contracts with relatively conservative deals funded by health care savings.

The idea that upstate New York is a «vast» bucolic region of rural space and «some towns» didn't sit well with upstate - based political reporters and elected officials, who (including yours truly) snarked in almost disbelief response that a former U.S. senator from New York could be so tone deaf about the region that yes, does include «vast, rural» areas, but also cities and suburban communities.

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.

«The vast majority of people that graduate from CUNY end up staying in New York City with a good education, and then contribute to the economy here and raise their family here,» Johnson said.

The governor - elect was HUD secretary when the Rudy's City Hall got HUD to go along with the artful manipulation of the Dayton Seaside property taxes to create illusion of vast arrears for purpose of forcing new owners at these three Rockaway apartment buildings.

Mr. de Blasio brought in $ 663,000 from more than 2,200 donors over the two - month filing period that ended Thursday, with a little more than half of the money coming from New York City residents and the vast majority giving $ 175 or less.

In response to the groups» lawsuit, Daniels commissioned the report from disability rights expert Robert Burgdorf Jr., who found the vast majority of city intersections were not compliant with the ADA and that it could take 20 years for the city to meet the standards.

Property owners, particularly in the City of Buffalo where the vast majority of homes with lead paint are found, need to be responsible for the homes they are renting.

Kobayashi used his contacts among the government officials that oversee the vast Siberian province Yakutia, to put Goto in contact with Pyotr Lazarev, director of the Mammoth Museum in the capital city, Yakutsk.

Viewing the core is like seeing a city with no downtown, just houses sprinkled across a vast landscape.

It used to be that automobile emissions (along with factories and other industrial sources) made up the vast majority of toxic fumes emitted into the atmosphere in big cities.

Turns out that men and women agree on where they want to go — a vast majority (59 %) voted the ocean as the most romantic setting, with a foreign city coming in next (17 %) and the mountains (14 %) third.

Consider it all: geographical dislocation, cities filled with singles, extended childhoods and postponed childbearing, speed - dating, the growing sense that the dating pool is as vast as the 454 men - seeking - women between the ages of 29 and 31 within five miles of your ZIP code on Yahoo Personals.

Online city guide CitySearch had dealings with both Facebook and MySpace, launching a revamped version of the site that incorporated Facebook Connect, as well as MySpace Local, which will combine the vast database of CitySearch with MySpace's user base.

Vimbly's like having a friendly concierge in your pocket with a vast selection of super fun ideas of things to do in the city — everything from how to wow a first date to putting together a fun activity for your peeps.

Vast Pool of Singles — Singles love that with online dating, you aren't limited to people in your town or even in adjacent cities.

LEGO City Undercover is a game with a vast open world to explore and tells the story of police officer Chase McCain.

And finally, there's the city of the dwarves with its vast trove of treasure — and one very cranky dragon.

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Unlike the Wii's Xenoblade Chronicles, with its philosophical underpinnings, the story in Chronicles X is more grounded in getting you out of the city and into the incredibly vast countryside to do battle with an inexhaustible selection of native flora and fauna, alien inhabitants, and the world itself.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets gives us a vast place, filled with unique characters, and keeps its tone humorously light — as awkward as some of that humor may be.

The young heir to a vast Mexico City banking empire runs away from the cold, corrupt, racist, money - driven, super-elite, super-rich, classist world into which he was born, takes a wrong turn down a wrong road, and finds himself stranded in a poor, remote, beach community where he experiences a love at first sight with an exotically beautiful local girl — one that will place him — and her — in grave danger at the hands of a ruthless drug lord.

Yet even with this ambitious effort — which far exceeds the outreach in the vast majority of cities — only about 140 parents sought transfers, says Lew Frederick, director of information at the Portland Public Schools.

The vast majority of students in the city's public schools are low - income and experience a multitude of challenges that come with poverty.

The Global Cities Education Network benchmarks internationally informed practices that enable urban systems to provide the vast majority of students with the opportunity to attain high - level skills, regardless of their cultural or economic background.

As for Birmingham, the largest city in Alabama entices buyers with its vast array of opportunities for work and play.

VANCOUVER — Vancouver's rate of vacant homes is in line with other big cities and has been flat since 2002, but the vast majority of empty units are condominiums, a landmark study has found.

Stroll the cobblestoned streets of colonial Boston, and take in landmarks of New York City and the serene marble monuments and vast green spaces of Washington, DC (with a visi... Read More

dusitD2 Hotel Constance affords visitors with a peaceful stay during their time exploring the vast array of Southern California cities.

Explore Java and discover an island of contrasts from vibrant cities bursting with local life and colourful markets to vast volcanic landscapes stretching into the distance.

Whether you're in the market for a romantic getaway or a budget beach trip with friends, take a look at our pick of the city's top hotels - the vast majority of which are located in the iconic resort neighborhood of Waikiki.

Cairns offers the very best in restaurants and dining options and with such a vast variety of tastes and flavours drawn from all over the world, every visitor to Cairns City is sure to find something to tantalise their tastebuds.

In contrast to the vast empty beauty of the Mongolian Steppes, the country's capital city, Ulaanbaatar, is a thriving modern metropolis that rewards exploration with a host of fascinating museums, serene monasteries and vibrant public squares.

Trasmediterranea is huge ferry operator operating a vast network of ferry routes linking the Spanish Peninsula with the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla as well as Morocco and Algeria in North Africa.

The Peniche is a city of great natural beauty and an amazing landscape, with a vast patrimony, both cultural and religious.