At night, walking around the sharp turns of the alleys can feel thrillingly forbidding.
Start your cycle tour at breakfast time in one of the hutongs (alleys) north of the Forbidden City.
Locked gates may be installed across alleys in Nottinghamshire in a bid to curb anti-social behaviour.
Even after becoming president, Mr. Clinton's inexperience in foreign affairs led him down some blind alleys.
Here cobbled alleys lead to synagogues, bohemian cafes and restaurants with live klezmer (Jewish folk music).
However, concerns have been raised that blocking off alleys does not cut crime, just displaces it.
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The Marines withdrew from two alleys and returned to one section of their base.
Rather science progresses in fits and starts, with many avenues terminating as blind alleys.
Undoubtedly, access to American research will have enabled the Chinese to avoid blind alleys.
Towards the docks, Barcelona's neat grid of boulevards fractures into a crazy-paved compaction of ancient alleys.
The new and ultra-luxurious on-mountain Montage Resort has a large arcade with Nintendo Wii and bowling alleys.
Qatari women, dressed elegantly in their sweeping abayas, negotiate the cobbled alleys, teetering on their designer heels.
Gates were installed in the alleys more than a year ago to prevent criminal damage and anti-social behaviour.
They went their separate ways, Sanders to stardom, Paxton to aimlessly wandering the back alleys of Los Angeles.
Teens are flocking to bowling alleys, where some are stealing shoes to wear as streetwear--a mini fashion craze.
Nearly all of these alleys once led to a bridge spanning the river.
And yet, our soldiers remain no better equipped to carry the technology and protection they need in the alleys.
Several alleys have popped up, but they are nothing like the ones brought in by GIs during the war.
One would be the safe world of electronic toll roads, the other a collection of dark and dangerous back alleys.
There are Subways now on college campuses, inside a church, at car dealerships, and in several bowling alleys, Winograd notes.
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Those "dark alleys" are where fake photos and harmful downloads are most likely to damage a person's computer, he said.
Catching things on the fly, Ayer uses a handheld camera, spinning down alleys, up stairways, in and out of apartments.
Today, some 80 percent of residents are named Zhang, and older women with bound feet sell trinkets in the alleys.
When Swildens first started investing in 2002, most secondary deals were done in the Silicon Valley equivalent of dark alleys.
The proposed rules exempted movie theaters, airplanes, bowling alleys and other businesses whose primary business is not to sell food.
Catching things on the fly, he uses a handheld camera, spinning down alleys, up stairways, in and out of apartments.
Cars and trucks are banned from the city (they will travel in tunnels underground) allowing for narrow streets and alleys.
Each scene was hand-drawn and takes place primarily in alleys, across rooftops and atop the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
The best way to experience hutong life is to simply wander around the alleys, either on foot or by bicycle.
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