Analysts long have said that there could be a turning point in Syria if the unrest that has raged in major provincial cities such as Homs, Hama, Daraa, and Deir Ezzor were to spread to the larger cities of Damascus and Aleppo.
We pray for entrepreneurial capitalism to spread to the inner cities and overtake the globe.
The idea quickly spread to other cities around the world, with cyclists meeting regularly to promote biking as a form of urban transport.
Concern is also growing over the possibility that the flooding could spread further inland to cities like Manaus, as the waters of Rio Negro, which feeds the Amazon, have been rising rapidly in recent days.
It is an idea that has spread to cities around the world, such as Ottawa, Mexico City and Paris, but it started in Colombia when the streets were handed over to cyclists on a Sunday in the mid-1970s to encourage cycling in a safe environment.
And in today's global village, some think Latin America, Japan and Korea are due to follow the myriad U.S. cities that the league has spread its wings to throughout its history.
The fury spread to Tunisia's coastal cities, growing as gory imagery relayed by cell phones and the internet clashed with the sanitised blandness of state television.
Its aims were diffuse, but the movement spread to many Russian cities.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Civil and Environmental Engineering department looked at the 40 largest U.S. airports and figured out which ones would be the most likely to spread a disease in the event of an outbreak in the cities they serve.
The bigger problem is that the success of central business districts has not spread to the poorer parts of America's cities.
An FBI informant recorded the men discussing plans to spread the toxin across Atlanta, Washington and several other major American cities.
Visit any burgeoning city in the developing world from Shanghai to Mexico City and the same reality emerges: as cities get larger, they spread out, as people begin to aspire, as best they can, for the quality of life that most North Americans and Europeans already take for granted.
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The period includes the August 2011 riots which erupted in London and spread to other English cities.
But it is worth assuming that the property tax pilot program in Shanghai is unlikely to spread to other cities.
As news of Mr Hazare's arrest spread, his supporters came out on the streets of many Indian cities to protest.
Unrest spread across London and to other cities, including Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol over the following days.
And while thousands might sound like a lot, I want you to remember that those votes are spread out across the entire state, across hundreds of cities and thousands of wards.
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Eastern Chinese cities have been closing live poultry markets and taking other precautions to limit the spread of the new virus.
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The trend has generated the most buzz in New York City, but it has spread to some coffee shops in other cities, too, namely San Francisco.
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