| They could travel from one end of the city to the other and never see the light of day. |
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| In Los Angeles, motorway capital of the world, car chaos has taken the city to the end of the road. |
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| They are a blight on many city centres and disfigure urban life to an intolerable degree. |
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| However, City of York Council is endeavouring to provide 300 new affordable homes across the city every year in a variety of innovative schemes. |
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| He disguised himself as a beggar and asked the opinions of some of the people in his city. |
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| The very image of the desolated metropolis was enough to dishearten me before I even entered the city itself. |
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| Families grieving the loss of a child will also receive extra help, with a slice of the cash going to develop bereavement services in the city. |
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| And thousands of disillusioned parents have turned their backs on the city. |
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| This is the place that gave me my first source of income in this great big scary city. |
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| A department store is offering customers a parking fee refund in an effort to spark a campaign to lure shoppers back into York city centre. |
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| For some reason, any childhood memory in this city has always been bleak and dismal at best. |
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| One can only pity the dismally short-sighted group on city council that believes this is a good idea. |
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| Car dismantlers across the city have been targeted in a Government crackdown on illegal scrapyards. |
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| Businessmen, enervated by the pressures of city life, sought spiritual as well as physical refreshment in the new pastime of bushwalking. |
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| All the money has fled to the suburbs and left the city to dilapidate and disintegrate. |
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| Behind him he saw the Rockies enfold the city, before him its waters ran out into the oceans of the world. |
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| The complex has been neglected and has become a dilapidated landmark in the city. |
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| He was apparently the only reporter in the city when U.S. forces were enforcing a crippling siege. |
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| If any town, city or district is to thrive it needs to engage the interest and enthusiasm of its younger generation. |
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| For a time his treachery caused such disorganization in the army that the city fell into the hands of the Czechs and Whites. |
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| They realize the engaging city offers them a home and a lifestyle like most of them have never experienced. |
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| What interventions can be made at an architectural level to make our city a more engaging place to live? |
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| The number of empty dilapidated shops in the depressing Bradford city centre are witness to the existing problems of traders. |
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| In that film too, the Berlin I saw was a grim city, divided into east and west by a wall topped with barbed wire. |
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| The underground was filthy, marking his pale skin with soot and city grime. |
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| The Crusaders invested the city, but without siege engines they were unable to do anything effective. |
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| It is hoped it will change people's perception of Sheffield as a grimy city which has never quite managed to lose its industrial past. |
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| Police also forcibly dispersed a slogan-shouting crowd of protesters in the adjoining city of Bhaktapur, injuring two people. |
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| The campaign is part of a push to end Manchester's grimy industrial image and sell the city to the world as clean, green and modern. |
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| And after a great day in the sunshine city, thousands had an effortless journey to Old Trafford on the Metrolink. |
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| The area for the submarines to dive has already been determined by the city of Pattaya. |
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| The inundation occurred because Sanchung's water displacement system was incapable of handling the torrential rain, the city said. |
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| If New Orleans were to be in Britain, it would be by far its richest city as ranked by disposable income after tax and benefits. |
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| Through 200 years they built and enlarged the great mosque in the center of the city. |
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| Will Celtic resume business by disposing of their city rivals or will this be the start of a Rangers revival? |
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| If Bradford is serious about being seen as a modern city with enlightened views, a good animal welfare programme is crucial. |
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| Walk down a city street without keeping a tight grip on your wallet or handbag and somebody will rob you. |
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| Through community meetings and the enlistment of volunteers, the city worked with neighborhoods to design solutions to traffic problems. |
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| They came en masse to the city square to demonstrate against the Communist government. |
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| Local homeowners are resisting the attempts by the city to condemn their land, but their prospects are dim. |
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| The presence of juice extracting machines at several spots in the city is enough indication. |
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| Was there any need, when the city already had a large enough range of all-size venues to satisfy most needs? |
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| This insensitivity must include disregarding the garbage that is thrown anywhere and everywhere on many a city street. |
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| The capacity for cultural institutions such as orchestras to help add economic and cultural dimensions to a city or regions is well known. |
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| After much dissension and debate Parliament voted for the move to Wellington as a city near the centre of the country. |
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| In Vienna, a dissipated pianist is about to flee the city to avoid fighting a duel the next morning. |
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| Now council bosses in York may sell off their responsibilities to grit icy roads and paths in the city to a contractor. |
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| The musical hints at the hardships of the immigrant experience and the passion and pride that Dubliners feel for their city. |
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| I listened carefully, hearing many city sounds, the distant laughter of humans, but no vampires were following me. |
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| The light is fading, and the distant sounds of the city are carried on a light breeze that creates ripples on the water. |
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| Such creative people often give city cultures their vibrancy and distinctiveness. |
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| The software is also speed-sensitive, so it can distinguish the different conditions in city driving and faster roads or motorways. |
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| The workers were a mixture of the real thing and city dudes playing at the rural life. |
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| I guess we looked like dudes from the city as everyone turned to look us over as we walked in. |
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| There's always a strange dichotomy between a city being entrapped by its representation and liberated by it. |
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| Your driving view is uncluttered and cockpit-like, making the diddy Ford extremely manoeuvrable in car parks and overcrowded city streets. |
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| Acting as the conduit between the city and the symphony, the entry lobby bustles with energy day and night. |
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| Riddled with pavement cafes and dotted with cosy bars, the city groans with museums and magical art galleries, cinemas and designer outlets. |
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| The retail boom is also transforming the oldest shopping districts in the city. |
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| In 1880, the city directory enumerated a total of 1,042 saloons, with 6.72 saloons per 1,000 individuals. |
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| In hundreds of cases it was not realized until an actual enumeration was made just how many acres of such unused land there were in a city. |
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| This force would attack south and penetrate enemy defenses around the city of Kursk to envelop remaining enemy forces in the salient. |
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| An estimated almost 2 million people left the Houston area under orders to evacuate their city and the surrounding suburbs. |
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| The local officials understood the danger and made an informed decision to evacuate the city. |
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| No radiation escaped the plant and there was no need to evacuate the area around the city of Mihama, about 200 miles west of Tokyo. |
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| Passengers have clamoured to ride free around the inner city loop on this environmentally friendly vehicle. |
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| The city could become the first in Yorkshire to revert to timber frames, which some scientists claim are more environmentally-friendly. |
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| During the battle for Shanghai, no preparations had been made for the defence or evacuation of the city. |
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| However, as a result of her persistent witnessing I was ripe for the harvest when a new church came to our city and began evangelising. |
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| Vacationists are coming from the city, where they have been used to grogging up before 9 o'clock. |
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| Meanwhile, housing transaction volume in the city continued to ebb in May, a dive of 45 per cent compared with April. |
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| The airport is west of the city beyond the junction where the Glasgow and Fife lines diverge. |
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| We, as tourists, transform the life of the city even as we insist on the preservation of the fabric. |
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| Junctions 33 to 34 of the M6 were closed in both directions, meaning all traffic was diverted through the city. |
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| This gives a bird's eye view of the city and the county of North Yorkshire. |
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| Leisure time spent in masculine environments such as black boardinghouses, city quays, grog shops, and city jails all facilitated friendships. |
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| A crime wave has struck the city, perpetuated by a gang of three dimwitted crooks. |
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| You see the city as a solid mass in which there have been carved narrow grooves, criss-crossing this stone block thousands of times. |
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| Forget your monuments, buildings and other such edifices, this city has trees. |
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| There is a midland city in the heart of fair, open country, a dirty and wonderful city nesting dingily in the fog of its own smoke. |
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| And where better to depict a city on the move than from a Midland dining car at the National Railway Museum in York? |
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| If it goes ahead, it will allow the council to dispose of several dilapidated office buildings around the city. |
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| The stoppage of gunplay on New York city streets would be a nice deal closer. |
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| Today, the eye of the hurricane came just south of Orlando, Florida, bringing high winds and very heavy rains to that tourist city. |
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| Labour will preserve and enhance York's wonderful historic and green environment, while ensuring the city does not stagnate. |
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| Thirty years later, the cave city of Matera still stands on the ravine over the River Gravina, a dinosaurian pile the colour of the sandy earth. |
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| The city sits in a broad, flat plain, as level and as green as a ripe paddy field at harvest time. |
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| Adding to that is the filling of land to raise the ground levels without proper consultation or advice from city engineers. |
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| Mr Fisher will outline plans to return to the Coventry area after possibly three years of groundsharing outside the city. |
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| Architect Will Alsop's idea of greening the city and making it car-free, although not new, has to be at the forefront of any masterplan. |
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| Police and security services are even grouped around every transport link, every city square, and any site of some nominal importance. |
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| During Super Bowl week, celebrity chasers and groupies flock to the site city and are a huge temptation on the club scene. |
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| Grass will never grow well under the viaducts, and attempting to make it do so contributes nothing to the beautification of the city. |
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| Twice, amid much sniping and cynicism from elsewhere, the city bid for the Olympics. |
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| The rapid growth of the city as well as a lack of maintenance has put an enormous strain on public infrastructure. |
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| But the unchecked growth of this fastest growing city in Asia is robbing it of its green cover. |
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| The changes are actually a tribute to the city, a recognition that rapid growth forces nearly everyone to do things differently. |
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| The efforts of the Government and civic bodies to green the city have been at best half-hearted. |
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| Already some dilapidated gravestones have been laid flat as a temporary measure by staff checking the stability of memorials across the city. |
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| Today, visitors to Tyre can explore the ancient Egyptian harbour with its beautifully preserved Roman and Byzantine remains of the city. |
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| He decided to brave the city streets and walked over to the church graveyard. |
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| Following several previous embarrassments, the city is expected to nix its deal with the company and resume parking responsibilities itself. |
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| Infact I live right on the outskirts of the city and am pretty much surrounded by trees and greenery. |
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| Ask your city or county building department if you need a permit to erect a greenhouse. |
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| It's very different from here, and high on the list of reasons why I need to move to a big city soon. |
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| Helicopter gunships over the city made repeated dives at clusters of fighters, and artillery was brought in for the first time. |
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| The Government hopes the move will help slash the differential between country and city fuel prices. |
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| A visitor to the city just now would still have some impression of dirt and decay. |
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| If we ignore that and just concentrate on infill, the edge city will never repair itself. |
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| A coat of arms is usually defined as a design on a shield used as an emblem by a family, city, or institution. |
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| Mass graves were dug on the outskirts of the city for thousands of the bodies. |
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| Cross, on the other hand, usually stands disaffectedly in the crowd at shows, blending nicely with the rest of the jaded music fans in this city. |
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| Perhaps someday Tony will step into his father's shoes to emcee city events in the English language? |
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| These holiday season signs seem eerily out of place in this grief-stricken city. |
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| Many of the Irish emigrants in that city are lonely and isolated and need help and support at this vulnerable time in their lives. |
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| Obrador rejected the workers' demands, saying that current plans were part of a more general municipal labor policy elaborated by the city. |
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| A further 29 full-time sports activity coordinators have been recruited to put the plans into effect across the city. |
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| I've left a comment to the effect that I can't see how they'd be much use in moving people around a city. |
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| While his text presents scenes in the North, the South, the city, and the country, these spaces are not presented as discernibly different. |
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| The councillor faced the prospect of racing across the city from the Guildhall to York Hospital's maternity ward. |
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| Water might also pour into the Broadway, along with the city council HQ and The Guildhall. |
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| They then took a tour of the Guildhall where they had lunch and chatted with city business people from similar backgrounds to their own. |
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| The city fathers and mothers in the Guildhall must now be much more clued into what this city is all about. |
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| Under Habsburg rule, it was the fourth largest city in the Austro-Hungarian empire. |
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| Thousands of city employees were fired and there was a wage freeze for the survivors. |
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| Apparently, having the Freedom of the City of Galway means that you can graze your cattle anywhere in the city, even in Eyre Square. |
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| After being contacted by an employment agency in the city, I arranged to have an interview with a friendly enough sounding man. |
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| The streets of the centre of the city emptied as frightened residents fled home to take shelter. |
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| I think there's a tendency in Australia to dichotomise the city versus the bush. |
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| It's just like a supermarket because city residents throw everything into the rivers, which empty into the bay. |
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| The city is running on empty, yet the amount of money considered necessary to feed the police force is growing by leaps and bounds. |
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| Art dealers who think they can swindle the city and government out of sales tax revenue are discovering they are gravely mistaken. |
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| In Edinburgh, six-mile tailbacks of commuter traffic brought gridlock to much of the city for more than three hours. |
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| In January a similar move to disconnect non-payers caused outrage when businesses across the city were put out of action. |
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| But he is up to his neck in it right now, and potentially faces years of policy gridlock in city hall. |
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| The human captives in the encampment just outside of the city were becoming more discontent by the day. |
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| Time and time again, I will find myself discoursing with random people, all over the city, lately even in different states. |
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| The rapid transit system is clean and efficient and the four legs of the line cover most of the city. |
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| The Liberal government anchored gunboats in the River Mersey and sent 7,000 troops to the city. |
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| Yesterday there were sporadic exchanges of gunfire and a tank firing shells in the city. |
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| Tens of thousands of people have flocked to the city, desperate to escape the mortar and gunfire. |
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| Soon people within the city began to experience symptoms similar to encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain. |
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| They were all enchanters and enchantresses, for the city of Nevada was strictly forbidden to mortals. |
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| Last week, gunmen kidnapped and then freed a British journalist in the southern city of Basra. |
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| The latest outrage was the encirclement of the city, cutting it off and isolating it from its environment through barricades. |
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| The city was also pounded by fire from helicopter gunships, jet fighters, tanks and machine guns. |
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| There was a lot of great art to see in the city this year and the good news is some of it you can still catch over the holidays. |
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| Huge towers grew into the sky, as the countryside gradually encroached on the city outskirts. |
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| It was a royal city from 893 to 972 and the reign of Tsar Simeon the Great was the heyday of its glory. |
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| Far from harming the city, encroachment on the green belt will harm the surrounding villages. |
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| He had a real passion for his beloved native city and a completely encyclopaedic knowledge of its highways, byways and history. |
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| The last few weeks have seen the end of a link between Hull and the university that has been part of city life for many years. |
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| At length, after being lost for more than two thousand years, the city was disentombed. |
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| In Rome, state-salaried masters in each of the city districts, known as rioni, taught poor students gratis and were allowed to charge a fee to whoever could pay. |
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| Irvine, California, is the epitome of tightly controlled urban design, a squeaky-clean edge city of office parks and master-planned neighborhoods. |
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| It also will present papers on urban sprawl, edge cities, sister-cities, and futuristic speculation about the transformation of the city in the 21st century. |
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| The Internet has changed the nature of technology and affected which areas, urban or suburban, edge city or edgy neighborhood, best promote technological development. |
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| The city itself seems edgy and nervous, as can well be expected. |
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| The city was no mongrel conglomeration of edifices built independently of one another, but a single, flowing ocean of architecture that stretched on to the horizon. |
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| To enhance the city centre atmosphere for the event, businesses are encouraged to keep the themes of the shows in mind when dressing their windows. |
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| Charleville Square is a modern development of Edwardian style houses off Butterfield Avenue in Rathfarnham, around four miles from the city centre. |
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| I found myself in downtown Chicago and the city was eerily deserted. |
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| I am in London, the city of Dickensian pickpockets, after all. |
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| Here he says the city is still either diddling or dithering and anyway people only keep saying Munich because it's the only big one they've got to mention. |
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| Readers of my last letter will probably, apart from describing the scripts in a mood of cynical contempt, realise my obsession with trees and greening the city. |
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| The precious greenery around the city must be protected at all costs. |
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| As the plane headed to Christchurch she thought how beautiful everything looked, in particular the greenness of the countryside and the gardens in the city. |
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| The report recommends that York's green spaces should be protected and enhanced and better design standards should be required for new developments in the city. |
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| If you are looking to escape the buzz of the city or just fancy a leisurely walk, Edinburgh has a wide selection of parks and green spaces in which to relax. |
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| It's hoping that such widespread wireless access will help bridge the digital divide in the city and make Philly appear as a tech savvy place to tourists. |
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| Beyond the close, cleared about 1800, is a bustling city, still occupying the grid of streets laid out by the bishop's planners almost 800 years ago. |
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| The National Football League and city of Los Angeles officials have reached a preliminary agreement on terms to bring a pro gridiron team back to the Los Angeles Coliseum. |
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| The portentous dignities bestowed upon officials and sympathizers were partly for Roman consumption, setting him up as arbiter of status and palace-based master of the city. |
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| Traffic lights lost power, causing gridlock all across the city. |
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| It couldn't have come at a worse time for the city's traders, who are gearing up for Christmas, but York's gridlocked roads are having an impact far beyond the city itself. |
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| As they camped in the fields in sight of the city walls the Mongols surprised them by smashing the dams and dikes nearby and flooding the encampment. |
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| The deteriorating quality and the shrinking greenery around the city adds weight to the proposal to provide it a little more elbow room or breathing space. |
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| Training costs for city workers were grievously underestimated. |
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| It is time the elders and religious leaders within areas of this city got a hold of the unruly and offensive elements among their community's young people. |
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| For the last three nights, spectacular electrical storms have drifted over the city, threatening a downpour that finally arrived with a vengeance last night. |
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| She said they were monitoring the weather and gritters would be out on key routes around the city at the first sign of a return to cold conditions. |
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| Broadway's weekly grosses are running ahead of this time last year, and every theater in the city is booked, with more than a dozen new shows opening over the next six months. |
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| Both humans and elementals can see right through all 17 domes and gaze upon the blue crystal-like city located within the first and largest dome at the center of Aquaria. |
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| It's an early attempt at mythologising the harsh urban grottiness of the built environment of a gigantic city and juxtaposing it with the image of a young woman. |
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| From our elevated position, in a house that hugged mist-capped Constantia Mountain, we had wonderful views of the city, spectacular sunrises and brief, breathtaking sunsets. |
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| I looked at the city over and over again from elevated positions. |
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| Proposals have been submitted to city planners to build a new structure of seven flats and a ground-floor shop behind the original five-storey structure. |
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| The elephant's road to freedom links up with a city dweller making a hard choice in a treacherous world, and in Sommers's hands, it all makes elliptical sense. |
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| The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed the State government to give a detailed report on the permissions granted for change of land use in Bangalore city. |
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| Aside from intense natural atmospheric discharges, there were no electrical emanations of any kind that he could detect, nor any sign of city lights or aerial activity. |
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| But Environment Agency chiefs said that level should be inches below the top of the city's flood walls and embankments, which protect hundreds of homes in the city. |
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| Schneider's re-creation of day-to-day existence in a city under siege is stark and powerful and her use of direct speech adds to the sense of documentary immediacy. |
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| We now learn that the unit will go through the embattled city after all. |
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| Why were eunuchs not allowed to become the city prefect of Constantinople? |
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| A tenuous peace deal between the American occupation forces and the embattled city of Falluja got off to a slow and sometimes chaotic start on Tuesday. |
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| The lack of flexibility and diversity inherent in the city's one-industry economy directly impacted the economy of the city and indirectly the ecology of local embayments. |
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| Easy to spot, the new buses sport distinctive purple livery and are emblazoned with The Deep logo, setting them apart from other city bus services. |
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| High city walls, while serving their primary purpose, were topped by guardhouses at regular intervals, soldiers and wardens patrolling its boundaries. |
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| Among the thousands of rescue and recovery workers were more than 100 airmen, reservists and guardsmen wearing state and city police and fire fighting uniforms. |
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| The award is conferred annually on eminent citizens of this textile city. |
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| He reaches the walls of the city, and the Romans, to save it from destruction, send emissaries, old friends of Coriolanus, to propose terms, but in vain. |
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| All this guff and nonsense does is reinforce the conviction that the City of York Council does not give a stuff if there is a football club in the city. |
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| She previously worked for another company, also an employment agency, which had a contract with the city council but she declined to name which one. |
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| The city emptied as the population was marched to the countryside. |
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| In Belgium, in the northern city of Antwerp, hub of the world's diamond trade, in which so many Gujarati traders are active, a party called Vlams Blok has gained prominence. |
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| The status of a happening city comes with its own discomforts. |
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| The city is shown in silence as if to underscore the emotional disconnection of the modern city where people live in close proximity but nobody cares. |
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| A total of 110,000 security personnel will be on duty at the Games, with airspace around venues tightly guarded and navy gunboats patrolling the waters around the city. |
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| They argued that the city was not required to regularly conduct state-of-the-art inspections to determine whether trees were rotting or disease-ridden. |
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| I'm too gushy in a country, in a city, where they hate gush. |
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| Our kids have been traipsing around the city for three decades, using 25 different gyms for practice and nine different gyms for home games during that time. |
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| Another flood of businesses and white residents left the city, and attempts at revitalization failed to stem the tide of disinvestment and suburban flight. |
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| It is a civic hub in what was previously a disjunct part of the city. |
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| Earlier this month, a news director in the south China city Zhuhai was dismissed for allowing an out-of-focus picture from the incident to appear on the local television news. |
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| When I round the first corner, it's as if the city enfolds me. |
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| When he first came to Britain in 1966, he arrived in Manchester, where he had a job as a junior lecturer, and was totally disorientated by city life. |
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| It is not in our nature to disparage the city we love or belittle the real successes that are made by our opponents as they did to us over the last three years. |
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| The service runs between the Pakistani border city of Lahore and Indian border city of Amrtisar, with engines and coaches provided alternately by the two countries. |
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| Union Pacific train engineers won't be allowed to sound piercing horns as the trains cross city streets, but they will continue to sound a bell mounted on the trains. |
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| This site, near the city of Chunchula in northwestern Mobile County, will provide a relocation site for tortoises displaced by local highway projects. |
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| We cannot allow these visions that lack public participation, divide the city into uneven halves, skew development and cause large displacements to become realities. |
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| She notes that in the business community expressions of enlightened self-interest about the need for a healthy vibrant city are beginning to emerge. |
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| Relatives of people buried in the former Wesleyan cemetery in Cheetham Hill have been in dispute with Manchester city council for the past four months. |
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| The site and its structures were eventually acquired by the city council with a view to renovating the ensemble to house a municipal library and archive. |
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| Aurillac, a lovely city at the foot of the Cantal mountains, has the dubious distinction of being the prefecture in France furthest from a motorway. |
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| Renoir made two relatively short visits to Algiers, in 1881 and 1882, working only in the most Europeanized and subjugated city of a vast country. |
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| Similarly, in the retail and distributive sector both large and small establishments drew their employees disproportionately from outside the city. |
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| Even in Thessaloniki, seventh-century city officials seem to have become restricted to the bishop and the local imperial representative, the eparch. |
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