Sentences with phrase «which locals call»

The island offers a fantastic network of hiking and mountain - biking routes, including some beautiful trails in Benimussa, which locals call «the hidden valley», as well as in the Ses Salines nature reserve on the south of the island.
«People will then walk or cycle the street and filter right through to Assiniboine Park, which locals call City Park.»
When the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan forced him and other archaeologists to relocate to other areas of interest, Sarianidi remembered this site, which locals call Gonur, and determined to return.
The newest, Hawaii, which locals call the Big Island, began forming about 500,000 years ago and is a work in progress: Lava flowing from Kilauea adds new shoreline all the time.
There are over 30 varieties of Turkish kebabs which locals call «siskebabi,» «sis kebaps,» or «kebabi.
The drones are fixed winged unmanned aircraft systems, which the locals call «sky ambulances».
The Black and Tan Coonhound acquired its name through its original purpose as a raccoon hunter (which locals called coons), and just like its ancestors, this breed is a wonderful tracker and can corner its prey, by which point it will start barking and howling to alert its owner of the prey's whereabouts.

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Local Girl Scout councils choose which baker to work with (there are two bakeries that are licensed by the organization — that's the reason «Samoas» are called «Caramel deLites» in some parts of the country), and girls decide how best to sell and what to do with the money they make.
In an interview with the El Pais newspaper published on Sunday, the Spanish leader suggested he could trigger article 155 of the constitution, which would allow him to dismiss the regional government and call fresh local elections.
One day she made a cold call to a local gourmet shop, which started a word - of - mouth snowball.
TechCrunch reports that popular dating app Tinder is planning to roll out a paid update of the app called Tinder Plus, with two new functions: Passport, which will let users search for matches outside their local radius in the event they are traveling, and a yellow Undo button, in case you accidentally «swipe left» and reject your potential soulmate.
OTS shifted some power from local buyers to Whole Foods» corporate headquarters in Austin, which the company calls its global office, employees said.
But you live and you learn, says Ken Weimar, the owner of Denizen Coffee in Istanbul, which is located just off the Hippodrome, now called Sultanahmet Square, where locals and tourists flock to visit the Blue Mosque.
Nguyen [Color's founder] has visions of fundamentally changing some aspects of social interaction and local discovery with the app, which he considers part of the so - called Post-PC movement.
The notice, which calls on local authorities to «create and refine platforms for exposing defaulted borrowers» by the end of the year, was jointly issued by China's Supreme People's Court, the Chinese Communist Party's Publicity Department and the China Banking Regulatory Commission, according to the state - run Xinhua News Agency.
In addition to Eatsa, Friedberg is pushing quinoa through a company he acquired called Northern Quinoa Production Corp., which contracts with local farmers in Canada to grow the crop with its proprietary seed.
Features like Facebook Professional Services (a local business directory), City Guides (an early - stage, travel planning feature), more info on business search results (price range, popularity, Call Now, etc.), and which friends have visited a specific local business are all foreshadowing for what's to come at Facebook.
Local media outlets reported last weekend that a package filled with horse manure had been deposited near Mnuchin's home in Bel - Air, California, prompting authorities to call in a bomb squad, which temporarily down the street.
A subscription service called Shoes4you failed recently, and many observers blamed the local concept of jeitinho, which gives a wink and pat on the back to consumers who uncover ways to get things for free.
The information that law enforcement agencies can obtain from wireless carriers shows which local cellphone towers users connect to at the time they make calls.
Estonia's financial watchdog had said it suspected Danske Bank's local branch of misleading authorities, adding the agency made inspections at the branch in 2014, during which it found what it called extensive and systematic violations of anti-money laundering rules.
These sites — which include Net2Phone.com, iConnectHere.com, Dialpad.com, and PhoneFree.com — offer free or inexpensive local and long - distance service and very competitive international rates (including great deals on international calls if they're PC to PC as opposed to using a computer to call someone's regular phone).
The state is shaped like a hand, so locals often point to somewhere on their own hand to show you which part they call home.
As Henry Kissinger emphasizes in his new book World Order, the fundamental building block of all American and international engagement over the past hundred years — namely, the nation state and the Westphalian system in which states are embedded — is particularly weak in the Middle East due to fragile national roots and competing local and universalist identities, including pan-Arabic movements and messianic religious calls from the likes of Iran's ayatollahs and ISIS.
EY's definition of purpose: «an aspirational reason for being which inspires and provides a call to action for an organization and its partners and stakeholders, and provides benefit to local and global society.»
All local stores are involved in the recruitment effort, which the company calls «National Hiring Day.»
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston regularly recruits from a local organization called Operation A.B.L.E., which provides job opportunities for older individuals.
Continuum has also formed a non-profit foundation, called Continuum Veterans Foundation (www.hire-our-heroes.org), which was established to provide financial support to local and national charities that focus on helping our veterans find jobs.
Local phone support numbers are available for a lot of European countries, which is a big plus, because even if you speak English you might not want to pay for an expensive phone call abroad.
The so - called «Kimchi Premium,» which had once priced cryptoassets as much as 25 or 30 percent above equivalent values on Western exchanges, had largely disappeared at the beginning of February following the implementation of new restrictions intended to cool the country's heated local markets.
The physical Internet backbone that carries information between the various nodes of the network is now the work of several firms called Internet service providers (ISPs), including firms that offer long distance pipelines, occasionally at the international level, regional local conduit, which ultimately links in homes and businesses.
The city at the mouth of the Manitowoc River on Lake Michigan is home to more than 33,000 renters and homeowners, and got its name from the local Native Americans, which called it «Home of the Good Spirit.»
These include cold calling and interviewing from the phone book, professional references from other business owners, or through the professional organizations to which the company belongs (like the local chamber of commerce or any sector association).
Although first reported in a local paper, it was left to BC - based The Tyee to break open this scandal, which includes a concerted federal government cover - up of information about the TFWP, including a new TFWP initiative called the Canada - Alberta pilot project — one that has been left almost completely unregulated and which likely paved the way for the dismissal of those 270 tradespeople.
However, Zoco makes an exception for what she calls «political factors,» which include state and local subsidies; relationships between large utilities, developers and suppliers; and international developers with local project pipelines that they are trying to build out.
The LDS Church, which entrusts local leaders to determine local callings, does not pay clergy, nor does it send would - be bishops to seminary.
Young local Churches begin as «mission territory,» and their bishops are chosen in consultation with what's now called the «Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples» (but which everyone in Rome still refers to by its old name, «Propaganda,» or simply «Prop»).
The authorization comes from «the competent ecclesiastical authority,» which usually means the local bishop (in canon law often called «the ordinary»), although the wording of the law does allow the bishops» conference to suggest another competent authority.
It is much more simple than you can imagine folks... in every local mosque across America, muslims are being taught something called «soft jihad» which is learning how to exploit the opportunities muslims have to litigate, and defraud the American system with great ease.
There is more here than meets the eye, and one's local congregation is a participant in that family of faith which endures through the centuries as what Paul called the Body of Christ.
Local communities, he says, «are not able to understand themselves as mature, grown - up, interdependent churches, One of the best examples is the Zairean liturgy, which should have been called the «Zairean Liturgy,» but it is called the «Liturgy of the Roman Rite for Zaire.»
But before turning to Jesus» sayings, let me at least say what one can infer from Q about his life: He grew up in a small village of lower or southern Galilee called in (Q 4:16) Nazara, but always called Nazareth elsewhere in the canonical Gospels, a hamlet perhaps too small even to have had a local synagogue in which Jesus might have learned to read the Hebrew scriptures.
It remains unclear who made the complaint but diocesan authorities are said to be taking the issue seriously which has prompted locals to start a petition, calling on the parish's vicar, Revd Dr Stephen M'Caw, to «take no action in respect of concerns expressed about the bells of St John's Church».
In Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: Lessons for the Church from MacIntyre's «After Virtue» (1998), Wilson responds to moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who concludes his celebrated 1991 critique of modernity by calling for «the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us....
28, the chief ministers of the local church are called» bishops,» a term which is otherwise applied to them only by Paul or his imitators (Phil.
A consultation convened by the WCC in cooperation with the Innere Mission of East Germany's evangelical churches issued this statement: «We affirm the continuing need for institutions in which the most severely disabled experience help, protection and care, even while at the same time we call for the integration of the disabled and the able - bodied within the local congregation.»
All I have to do is listen to what your imams preach at the local mosque, of which more than 60 % in the US are islamistic, encouraging corporal punishment for adultery and alcohol consumption, calling all non-muslims in their own country here in the US and elsewhere immoral pigs.
Economic expansion in this core was associated with two other dominant trends: growth in population (the so - called demographic transition, which both facilitated, and was facilitated by, industrialization) and the geographic inclusion of previously isolated, local, and ethnic sectors of the population into the commercial and industrial labor force.
Urbanization has called forth two types of reaction in Protestantism: first, the church and the ministry have devised numerous means of reaching out to all kinds of people and groups in the cities; and second, attempts have been made to strengthen the inner fellowship of the local church, to bring about a genuine community in which each individual has a sense of being a member of the one body.
In a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.
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