For Steve Parlin, who is staying at a veteran's shelter on Court Street, in the shadow of City Hall, the scene was nothing to joke about.
Singapore has year-round temperatures of around 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius) and the farm is set in an open area designated by the government as an agro-technology park, miles away from the shadow of city skyscrapers.
Monday's altercation took place in Mayu township in the shadow of Wenzhou city in Zhejiang province, eastern China.
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After South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994 Johannesburg experienced a new, unofficial apartheid as businesses moved away from downtown to the city's wealthier, whiter, northern suburbs, leaving the city center a shadow of its once dynamic self.
For much of its first 100 years, the city stood in the shadow of nearby Jerusalem, unable to compete with the capital's holy sites and history.
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Having grown up on the White City estate in the shadow of BBC Television Centre in west London, and working for the corporation as a messenger, Mr George went on to hang around its offices, keeping notes of telephone numbers and picking up copies of the staff magazine, Ariel, the prosecution said.
The Tories shot back that it had been the Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls who, as City Minister in the late 1990s, had boasted of light touch regulation and missed a chance to introduce tougher controls.
Although, investment banks post reports on the net, Mr Yearsley argues that the information available to private investors is a pale shadow of that which reaches the desks of City professionals.
No British pier has gone as far as the Pier Shops at Caesar's in Atlantic City, where, in the shadow of a gigantic Roman-style casino, an enclosed street of glittering boutiques winds over the waves.
And all transpiring under a shadow, one made all too evident early last week when the city experienced a collective shudder as the spinning cyclonic shape of Hurricane Bill appeared on TV screens.
Santa Rosa is a sun-dappled gem of a city, which served as the main location for 1943's Shadow of a Doubt.
Instead, that city, in its day Iraq's number two, has become an impoverished shadow of its former economic glory.
Bernard Jenkin, shadow regions secretary, says he wants to go further and reinvent civic Conservatism by decentralising power to city and county councils.
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