Sentences with phrase «white houses built»

Marettimo is very far from the madding crowd; it is great for people looking for some peace and quiet with just a few hundred white houses built from indigenous Tufa, nestling close to the shoreline and the harbour.

At the highest point of the city stands the castle and in the level below stretches the city of white houses built in the typical style of the region.

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The Bush administration placed a few solar panels atop White House buildings in 2003, although The Washington Post reported at the time that the power they produced was minimal.

Not exact matches

Opponents chained themselves to construction equipment and the White House fence in protest, arguing that building the pipeline would be antithetical to Obama's call for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

An especially embarrassing breach came in September 2014 when an Army veteran with mental health issues scaled a fence on the Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White House and made it as far into the building as the East Room before the Secret Service could apprehend him.

The Trumps and Macrons helped plant a tree on the White House grounds together before boarding Trump's Marine One helicopter for a scenic tour of monuments built in the capital city designed by French - born Pierre L'Enfant as they flew south to Mount Vernon, the first U.S. president's home along the Potomac River.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer then followed this up with comments suggesting that the Trump administration is considering a 20 % tax on imports, starting with Mexico, that would help finance the building of a border wall between the US and Mexico.

A computer model built by Reuters used historic trends and other data to predict that a Republican will take the White House when Obama's term ends.

While in the building, your DCMNI columnist also spoke with senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett, the administration's main liaison to Wall Street and the business community, and she had the same message.

AirMap built a mobile app that drone pilots can use to receive updates from airports and air traffic management teams about flight conditions «so they don't get too close to an airplane» or don't land in places they shouldn't be, like «on the White House lawn,» said AirMap CEO Ben Marcus.

«It's difficult, in effect, to get away inside the White House with the press corps in the same building,» said Bruce Buchanan, politics professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Members of the press were also barred from the meeting, adding to building criticism that a President Trump will not honor White House traditions of transparency.

Our new prime minister needs to repair Canada's image in Washington by building relationships beyond the White House

The honorees will include Joanne Smith, the Chief Human Resources Officer for Delta Air Lines (No. 98 on this year's list), for helping the airline to build a more inclusive workplace by pushing it to commit to the White House Equal Pay Pledge, which encourages U.S. companies to take action to advance equal pay among men and women.

For those uninitiated, Startup America is a White House partnership with AOL co-founder Steve Case and the Kauffman and the Case Foundations, with the aim to increase «the number of new, high - growth firms that are creating economic growth, innovation, and quality jobs; celebrate and honor entrepreneurship as a core American value and source of competitive advantage; and inspire and empower an ever - greater diversity of communities and individuals to build great American companies.»

Now that's she's at the White House full time, pressure will build for her to be seen more and to do more.

Since his push to enact a ban on assault weapons and wider background checks for gun owners collapsed on Capitol Hill in 2013, gun control has slipped down the list of White House priorities, below a legacy - building Iran deal, an opening with Cuba and reform of the immigration system.

But the White House only gave Puerto Rico a 10 - day waiver for the Jones Act, a shipping regulation that requires that only US - built ships transport goods between US ports.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- The last time Hillary Clinton ran for the White House in 2008, Aaron Levie was too busy building his start - up company to pay much attention to politics.

The same corporate celebrity culture that elevated Trump from the boardroom to the White House is now building monuments to the bold CEOs who criticize him.

Facing the prospect of a blue wave this fall, the White House's political arm is devoting unprecedented resources to building an army of paid staff and trained volunteers across more than two dozen states.

Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls.

Jeremy helped to build a people - powered election campaign based on strong volunteer organizing that propelled Barack Obama back to the White House.

Stoneman Douglas survivor Samuel Zeif, who attended the listening session at the White House, said that on the day of the shooting he was on the second floor of the building, sending text messages to his parents and three of his brothers «that I was never going to see them again.»

President Trump had just returned to the White House on Saturday from his final inauguration event, a tranquil interfaith prayer service, when the flashes of anger began to build.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence delivers remarks before swearing in Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House in Washington, U.S. February 7, 2017.

The White House, which has called China an «economic enemy,» wants to target the advanced industries Beijing has vowed to build up as part of its «Made in China 2025» plan.

It reflects a years - long campaign by liberal Catholic activists to push back against the leadership of their church on controversial political matters - and years of White House bridge - building with a spectrum of Catholic groups.

I miss the days when Sarah Palin inspiried the folks in Alabama with stories about how Paul Revere rode a 4 - wheeler all night to warn Abe Lincoln that Buddhist Mexicans under Nelson Mandela were coming to attack the statue of the 13 commandments that Charlton Heston built on the white house lawn!

Do you know the person that built the White House?

Yes, Muslims from all over the country accepted a White House invitation to attend the Iftar dinner earlier this month with the President to break our fast, to break bread, and to build bridges of understanding.

And they say the presidency is bringing Obama to a new place in his faith - building on a system of belief and practice that helped bring him to the White House in the first place.

He had been invited to the White House, built a global television ministry and drove around town in a $ 350,000 Bentley.

Johnson, out of his own liberal roots, spoke boldly of building the Great Society, but the streets of this land were increasingly unsafe even for the president, who more and more found himself to be a virtual prisoner in the White House.

«Eventually the Democrats will agree with us and will build the wall to keep the damn drugs out,» Trump said amidst chants of «build the wall,» giving the official White House event a campaign feel, according to CNN.

A cool fact I didn't realise until talking to someone the other day is that Ina Garten actually used to work at the White House before building her own majorly successful food company (including a food emporium, cookbooks, TV shows and magazine columns)-- such an inspiration.

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Research shows that a majority of global consumers, and especially Millennials, support companies that are committed to minimizing environmental impacts and that prioritize sustainable approaches to operations.2 To share more about its water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.

His restaurant, Bäco Mercat, housed in a converted office building in gritty downtown L.A., has 20 - foot - tall windows that Centeno cleans with the same care he puts into making sure the razor clams with white miso and yuzu are tender and well seasoned.

Visit fetzer.com/waterfor more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.

Marking the first time the legendary hotel has altered its white façade, Fontainebleau Miami Beach will join buildings such as The White House, Empire State Building, Sydney Opera House and Buckingham Palace in lighting up pink to support Breast Cancer Awareness Mwhite façade, Fontainebleau Miami Beach will join buildings such as The White House, Empire State Building, Sydney Opera House and Buckingham Palace in lighting up pink to support Breast Cancer Awareness MWhite House, Empire State Building, Sydney Opera House and Buckingham Palace in lighting up pink to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

While opinions of the person occupying the White House at any given time (and especially now) vary, there are doubtlessly many teenagers who'd think it amazing to get a tour and a ceremony of one of the world's most important buildings.

«We attended White House ceremonies after previous championships — touring the historic building and visiting briefly with Presidents George H.W. Bush and Barack Obama — and have accepted an invitation to attend again this year.»

Of course, both Cruz and Rubio would like to live in the White House, and it's hard to imagine that they haven't considered the long - term usefulness of building a list of people rabidly opposed to Obama's central legislative achievement (on that front, I signed the petition as «Bob Dobbs» and immediately landed on a page asking me to donate to the «Senate Conservatives Fund»).

In the afternoon, the president hosts a law enforcement roundtable on sanctuary cities, and then departs the White House en route for the National Building Museum, where he will attend the NRCC's March fundraising dinner.

White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said the budget will also include funds to build the president's long - promised wall along the Mexican border.

The White House presented Congress with an expansive list of hard - line immigration measures, including an $ 18 billion request to build a wall at the Mexican border, that President Trump is demanding in exchange for protecting young undocumented immigrants.

Trump was «very positive» toward a multi-billion dollar plan to build a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River at a White House confab last week, but «the fat lady hasn't sung yet,» U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

Last March, the Daily News reported that his White House ally, former Bronx borough president Adolfo Carrión, took thousands of dollars in campaign cash from Fine, the cofounder of Atlantic Development Group, and from others connected to a megaproject the firm built in the Bronx, Boricua Village.