Thousands of athletes had already descended upon the city some the world's elite, many from overseas.
His cape swirls in the wind that screams around the tower and he looks grimly down upon the city.
They said the scheme would "on balance" be acceptable as it would "facilitate the expansion and growth of an important local manufacturer and in this instance this would outweigh any impact upon the city's heritage assets".
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An exceptionally well-knit documentary about the horrifying events that took place in Nanking between December, 1937, and March, 1938, when the Japanese Army fell upon the city, then the capital of China, and slaughtered as many as three hundred thousand soldiers and civilians and raped twenty thousand women.
Tipster Joshua has chimed in to let us know that Insight Digital 4.0 has been unleashed upon the Ohio city, bringing with it too many high-def channels to count.
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In the comparative study of the cost of mass transit, analysts at Mercer selected the most convenient and popular means of transportation between bus and subway in a given city and gauged the price based upon a ride in the city center for one adult, according to the Mercer analysis team.
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We all know that Capitalism is the motive power energizing the luminescence of the Shining city upon the hill.
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And much to my delight, I discovered that I was able to see the city's past as well as its present: the London of my imagination superimposed upon the reality, a transparent city in which the old was encased in the new like an ancient layer cake wrapped in glistening sandwich-wrap.
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However, much of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina is due to the consequences of extensively modifying the wetlands upon which much of the city is built.
The protesters who descended upon Atlantic City in 1968 to picket the Miss America pageant weren't clamoring for more comfortable girdles.
If the rate was lowered to keep the bank afloat, and regulators were involved, both the bankers and their rule-setters should explain why they took it upon themselves to endanger the City's reputation in this way.
But no one who has been to Bruges will fail to appreciate what may be its foremost achievement: the insight with which Rodenbach has seized upon and expressed the elusive essence of an entire city, as though it had a human heart.
Lazily stretching out across the northern perimeter of the city walls, the Villa Borghese looks down upon the Piazza del Popolo and the trio of busy thoroughfares that flow into the centre of town.
He received the freedom of the city of Newcastle Upon Tyne in March 2005.
"It's not fair for the failures of the adults to be visited upon the students in every New York City classroom, " he said.
Come the April 25 draft fans will descend upon New York City's famed Radio City Music Hall in hopes of hearing their favorite club call the name of a left tackle who can protect their quarterback's blindside for the next decade.
By next year even he could be forced to rely upon the central government to guarantee the floundering city's mounting debts.
Upon returning to Bangkok, move through the city on a search for the best of its ubiquitous street food like drunken noodles and samosa pastries before you stick a fork in your trip.
After winning the silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics and a first-place finish in the 2009 New York City Marathon, Meb returned to the Games and improved upon his 2004 silver medal performance time by 23 seconds.
The Nine embarked upon a programme of urban renewal, adorning their new cathedral, building the city's civic palace, the vast piazza that spreads like a scallop shell before it, and the palatial hospital that still functioned in recent times.
"The city of Timbuktu is founded upon Islam and will be judged only through Islamic law (Shariah)" reads a billboard there.
When, in 1980, Jimmy Carter vowed to scrap the project, city fathers descended upon Washington to lobby Congress and various federal agencies.
Realtor.com, for example, allows the user to search property listings based upon city.
The City of Light wove its spell upon Gadsby and she decided to attend college there while working towards a degree in international business.
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The city hugs the coast, and the waterfront includes the famous Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, upon which bright red and yellow umbrellas dot every visible stretch of sand.
"What I saw was a man who was trying to set up a smokescreen about the decade of disaster that he has put upon our city schools, " he said.
But an events center and football stadium in the City of Industry will not maximize the long term economic development potential that a new facility could have upon the economics of the Los Angeles region.
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Perhaps as they advanced into the city, they would be encircled and fired upon.
Victoria enjoyed embarking upon this first-time photo adventure, hopping around the ancient city on the train with Buster, her canine companion.
And for every traveller who has been disappointed in a destination upon arrival, there is a happy visitor in Venice, where the city looks exactly as it is supposed to.
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