Sentences with phrase «with imposing views»

Luxurious 3 star bed and breakfast in Edinburgh, centrally located and within walking distance of Holyrood Park and Arthur's Seat with imposing views of the vibrant city.

Driving northwest from Hermosa Beach on Highway 34 you come to a cliff with a imposing view, Punta Guapinol.

Belmopan is 76 metres (250 ft.) above sea level, near the Belize River Valley, with an imposing view of the majestic Mountain Pine Ridge mountains.

In this unprecedented professional environment, where cloud - based software allows files to be accessed from anywhere and various platforms provide clerical services remotely, it's never been easier to run a reputable (and profitable) law practice from anywhere, be it a fancy skyscraper with an imposing view or your home office.

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«Obviously, it's so imposing — you drive down and see the sweeping views,» said Nava Mitnick, a broker with Daniel Gale Sotheby's International who's representing the property.

An imposing six feet five inches tall, James has to duck through the doorway as he enters the front room, where his older brother (a mere six feet three) has staked a claim on the only office with a view.

«What that imposes on us is the need to ensure the design of the power plant we put together is consistent with the utilities» view of the power grid, consistent with what's available on the vendor market and (the need to) build them on a scale to change the nature of energy supply, and that it isn't just a physicists pipe dream.»

Although subsequent administrations have continued reviewing vertical mergers, the Chicago School's view that these deals generally do not pose threats to competition has remained dominant.139 Rejection of vertical tie - ups — standard through the 1960s and 1970s — is extremely rare today; 140 in instances where agencies spot potential harm, they tend to impose conduct remedies or require divestitures rather than block the deal outright.141 The Obama Administration took this approach with two of the largest vertical deals of the last decade: Comcast / NBC and Ticketmaster / LiveNation.

He never said to impose your views upon those around you with the force of law.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

Yet another view accents the plight of the woman who undergoes an abortion: her right to privacy, the tragic necessity imposed by unwanted pregnancies, the sociocultural milieu with its polarized emotions.

Well can tell you that those are hard working people in a difficult and hard enviroments only to achieve their daily needs for bread and water and not concerned with politics or imposing their views on others.

Nominalists share with Scotus the voluntarist understanding of divine and human will, the unboundedness of possibility, the view of creation as an order imposed by God's arbitrary will, and the rejection of the doctrine of analogy.

Also important to this discussion is the view that God doesn't impose or coerce reality into conformity to a goal, purpose or direction which is inconsistent with its own uniqueness.

However, the body of philosophy that deals with being and the relationships between entities, metaphysics, is just as necessary now as in past ages (perhaps more so given the prevalence of the idea that an individual world - view is just as «real» as any «imposed» objective reality).

In 2007 the Committee used the same justification to attack Honduras» restrictive abortion laws, recommending «that the State party consider reviewing the law relating to abortion with a view to identifying circumstances under which abortion could be permitted, such as therapeutic abortions and abortions in cases of pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, and removing punitive provisions imposed on women who undergo abortion, in line with the Committee's general recommendation 24...»

This unique event will take place at Kinsterna Restaurant, right beside the Byzantine cistern from which the hotel takes its name, surrounded by the mansion's majestic courtyard with views to the endless blue of Myrtoo Sea and the imposing medieval castle - town of Monemvasia.

Costs to the bakery industry imposed by proposed rules from Brussels on gluten - free foods come into focus with the UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) calling on views from stakeholders.

The ground was just as impressive on the inside as it was from the outside, with imposing stands on three sides (some seats were so high we couldn't see them from where we were) and a great view from the away section.

Notably, requirements of standard mattress imposed by the Consumer Product Safety Commission are what both retailers and crib mattresses have to fulfill with a view to protecting your infant.

He said new taxes would have to be imposed on middle - class taxpayers as well, with an average increase of 10 percent, something he views as unacceptable.

I believe that such appeals carry grave threats to democratic discourse, and I think it wrong that faith groups, which in the United States and here enjoy significant hidden subsidies from other taxpayers, should award themselves a special right to influence the law and public policy and seek to impose their views on others who disagree with them.»

The first, the Ulster County Legislature's Energy and Environment Committee will meet on Thursday, May 3rd at 5:30 pm (at UCRRA located at 999 Flatbush Road in Kingston, NY) and, more importantly in order for your voice to be heard, a public hearing is set for May 23rd (VIEW our facebook event) with a potential vote to follow that would establish both new policy and a higher fee for our current commingled system imposed upon Kingston.

Mr. Ankomah said this when his views were sought on the GHc1, 800 fines imposed on the 13 members of the Delta Force, who were charged with conspiracy to commit a crime by rioting, after they were captured on a video manhandling the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator, George Adjei.

Contrary to current beliefs viewing gang structure as hierarchical and clan recruiting processes as rigorous, Red Gang members described their gang structure as a loose social network into which individuals drifted through friendships with current associates; similarly, gang leadership was said to be the result of personal dexterity — individuals ascended to command status because of their personal traits — rather than the outcome of a selective system imposed from above.

The city has many iconic buildings from the imposing «Big Ben» clock tower to the London Eye — with views over the entire city.

Sam Elliott's visceral appeal is legend by now: the oak - aged baritone that suggests a creaking porch with a pleasant view, the cigarillo frame that's just imposing enough, and a mustache that looks like it could tell its own tales.

Socio - economic rights impose positive obligation on the government of South Africa to take steps to the maximum of its available resources, with a view to achieving progressively the full realisation of those rights.

A fundamental problem with national standards efforts, like Common Core, is that they are attempting to impose a single vision of a proper education on a large and diverse country with differing views.

But, by seeking to impose their policy view with a direct and definitive approach, the opponents of gay marriage planted the seeds of their own defeat.

The 1983 study «A Nation at Risk» hoped to spur a complacent country to act with this opening: «If an unfriendly power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.»

The current era of corporate education reform began with the 1983 publication of the Reagan administration's report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, prepared by a committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authors wrote.

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Coco Reef Bermuda sits on one of the island's loveliest stretches of beach and combines an imposing entrance and lobby with great coastal views from practically every room.

Sit back, breathe in the sea air, sip a wine or beer and marvel at the 74 Island Wonders of the Whitsundays, starting with views of Passage Peak and the imposing Pentecost Island.

Once an imposing ancestral mansion, King's Cliff is a charming hotel with a panoramic view of the hills a few kilometres outside the town of Ooty.

It's surrounded by imposing mountain ranges at the border with Laos — including the stunning Phu Kradueng, Phu Luang and Phu Ruea, and is also the perfect spot to take in the views of the Mekong at Chiang Khan.

Finally, drive through Shiek Zayed Road imposing the more skyscrapers and heading to Dubai Mall where you will have an opportunity to experience the fine dining, shopping and view Burj Khalifa (the magnificent steel structure with the height of 828 meters).

5:45 — 6:30 — Visit Seawall Times Beach Located along Times Beach, the Seawall is a beautiful park with a refreshing view of the sea, an imposing naked statue of David and a handful of animals like Ostrich near the mini-park.

Being simultaneously the director and main actor in his work, Iván interrogates with humour the views and perspectives imposed by our social positions, the status of an artwork and the notion of interactivity, which he addresses through a fictionalisation of the everyday.

The first room creates a physical experience, pushing the view to the periphery with an imposing bulbous sculpture, while the second creates safe places for the artist as a young boy, evoking Bradford's mother's hair salon in large paintings created from purple - black end papers used for permanent waves and a paper sculpture representing Medusa's head as a hiding place.

Installed among a number of large, monochromatic pictures, now known as the White Paintings (1951), and a few Elemental Sculptures (ca. 1953)-- objects combining stone, wood, rusted metal, and found objects — was a selection of his Black paintings, an imposing series of large canvases layered with newspaper and dark paint of varying finish and consistency.1 Among the works on view was this untitled canvas, now known as Untitled [black painting with portal form](1952 — 53), which the artist is believed to have begun in early 1952.2 This painting was one of several compositions that originated at Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina (fig. 2), where Rauschenberg studied intermittently between 1948 and 1952.

While some of the strategies he deploys in his work — experimentation, rule - based systems, and working within and against arbitrarily imposed limits to find new solutions to problems — share similarities with pedagogical methods, they are also intrinsic to his particular world view and philosophy.

But an anonymous Time magazine writer anticipated those views in 1969, writing: «Noland's supposedly impersonal canvases are vividly imbued with a dozen remarkably personal characteristics — pride, imposed logic, arrogance, grace, wit, independence and inner tension.

A series of text based pieces which are concerned with context and interpretation, Huws» work invokes a deceptive objectivity which gives way to wider questions of our own cultural context, and the resonances which these impose upon works we view.

The trick with the regulation is to work out a process that allows this to all occur, protecting the wider community interest while stopping regulators imposing their view of the risks on everyone.

Too many times and for too long have developed countries impose their views on the rest of the world, unfortunately often times with good intentions but it didn't make it any better.

The truth about Judith Curry, as I see it, is that she has a strong attraction for political dialogue, and refuses to see that the public debate over climate is fundamentally at odds with good science, as is the IPCC - sponsored «consensus» of climate alarmism, or in her case, of climate political - worryism (she seems deeply attached to helping bring about «reasonable» and «responsible» climate policies — whereas my view is that any and all such climate policies, now, are necessarily based upon incompetent, false science, are entirely the wrong thing to try to impose upon the people of the world, and need to be summarily thrown out, before one can even begin to have a dispassionate, competent scientific dialogue — as opposed to the political debate now being served up — on the state of climate science.).

I sympathize with the view that the government should not force a citizen to act against her or his conscience, with respect to religious or other beliefs, but I'm not sure I agree that civil servants should be allowed to impose their religious beliefs on the general public — the servants» officially secular employers.