"We are the shining city on the hill, " Williams told the crowd.
"America is still the land of opportunity, and it is a beacon of hope and liberty and, as Ronald Reagan said, a shining city on the hill, " McCain said.
Shops are offering colossal discounts, even bigger than the painful spending and wage cuts passing through parliament in its pastel-painted palace on the hill above the city.
He was never a creature of the capital city's social scene, living in a spartan apartment in the city not far from the Supreme Court offices on Capitol Hill.
Wearing the signature red ties of its salespeople, Goklaney and two colleagues brave the monsoon rain to trek up six flights of stairs in a building on Malabar Hill, the city's upmarket residential area.
It brings to mind the "shining city on a hill" of which President Reagan so often spoke.
He and other religious dissenters, including Anne Hutchinson, had been banished from neighboring Massachusetts, the "shining city on a hill" where Catholics, Quakers and Baptists were banned under penalty of death.
Private Syracuse University, which sits on a hill overlooking the city (and whose 50, 000-seat Carrier Dome is the city's best known landmark), is ramping up a 15-year-old program aimed at high-tech company incubation.
The United States had been founded by descendants of emigrants from Protestant Britain and Holland who viewed their new land as a "city on a hill" that would initiate the "new Israel" and the Kingdom of God on Earth.
Grapes Hill on the inner city ring road was closed for several hours as vehicles struggled to get up its steep slope.
The Istanbul Hilton, on top of a hill in the newest, wealthiest part of the city, surrounded by parkland, offered a view of the Bosporus.
In fact, my father did commute daily to New York City from a small outpost on the commuter line called Talmadge Hill.
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The long-time theologian is expected eventually to retire to a monastery on a hill inside Vatican City, with officials saying he will not be able intervene publicly in the papacy of his successor, though he may offer advice.
On a flat-topped hill overlooking the sprawling city of Los Angeles, the grass has been worn bare by thousands of eager feet.
Parents like Tori Willis, a widow who moved her 17-year-old son, Asante Sandiford, from a traditional Boston public school to City on a Hill charter school three years ago, are drawn to the focus on college preparation and manners.
For four swoon-filled years during the dot com boom and bust a decade ago, I lived in San Francisco, the beautiful lotus-eating, Pacific-touching, city on a hill.
Jenny Chen, a young woman who was vice president of an Internet start-up company, proudly showed me her office, where a model of Capitol Hill not the Forbidden City stood on her desk.
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The Thunder were already up by 23 when Larry Hill connected on the half-court shot and went bounding toward Oklahoma City's huddle in celebration, getting congratulated by Thabo Sefolosha before the team's bison mascot pulled him back away.
While Capitol Hill might have the market cornered on dysfunction, the rest of the city has undergone some serious self-improvement, with slick new condos cropping up on once desolate street corners, and brick-walled wine bars replacing boarded-up storefronts.
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