Sentence examples for Portland from inspiring English sources

Built in 1890 by Robert Walker in Portland stone and listed by English Heritage as a site of special historical and architectural interest, the property boasts a penthouse suite with aerial views of the capital, dozens of rooms, spaces for entertaining, and a secure vault in the basement.

Downtown Portland, for its part, has even designated special skateboard routes.

Counting preseason, Portland has played nine games and scored but nine goals.

Only one game this Sunday, and it's Chicago Fire vs New York Red Bulls (Sun 3pm, Toyota Park, Unimas), which gives us the chance to see which Chicago Fire we're supposed to believe — the one that fell over against Chivas in week one, or the one that almost got a result in Portland last week.

Portland certainly has the talent -and the motivation - to take all three points from Saturday's match.

Roger Anthony, Timbers Army, Portland: For the seventh straight week, the Timbers will play their Biggest Game Ever.

This is because Amtrak's Cascades line from Vancouver, Canada, to Eugene, Oregon, via Seattle and Portland, added free Wi-Fi across the whole train in early 2011 (it is also offering the service on its longer Coast Starlight run, albeit only in the Parlour Car for now).

Smith said that MLS teams with similar backgrounds – "Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Orlando" – are successful, ground-up clubs that Sacramento hope to emulate.

Among current bestsellers are combat boots from Italy ($367), a snow-goose necklace from Raleigh, North Carolina ($29), and a minimalist stainless-steel toilet-roll holder from Portland, Oregon ($36).

No surprise, then, that Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote the novel on which Fight Club is based, is affiliated with a local neo-situationist group, the Portland Cacophany Society.

The argument lasted years and "really divided" South Portland, recalls the city's chief administrator, James Gailey.