Sentence examples for a time when streets from inspiring English sources

Parks became the founder and first president of the National Hot Rod Association at a time when streets in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley were often the scene of illegal hot-rod races, with cars zooming two abreast at speeds well over 100 miles an hour, cheered on by crowds lining the roads.

Opponents of the regime must adopt sophisticated methods, too, especially at a time when street demonstrations are suppressed.

But they could also help the Communist Party retain power by maintaining tight controls on an increasingly prosperous population at a time when street protests are becoming more common.

As details emerged in the days that followed, the attacks by the Central Park mob sparked fear and outrage, perhaps because they recalled a time when street crime was rampant and the park was considered dangerous.

Several Muslim Brotherhood officials and some from the ultra-conservative Salafi movement are on record blaming women for sexual violence at a time when street sexual harassment and assaults are at epidemic levels.

At a time when street art is being embraced not only by the art world but also by branding interests, JR, who dislikes being called a street artist, preferring the term "photograffeur" (graffeur is French for graffiti artist) has become known for rejecting corporate sponsorship offers and other outside help.

The length of a skirt, the width of a tie, the cut of a jacket will all take their cue from what young people in Europe's and America's big cities choose to buy from a myriad of tiny cheap clothes shops that will never be advertised in Vogue.There was a time when "street fashion" hardly existed: only the well-to-do could afford tailors and dressmakers, or shop in posh department stores.

The bomb exploded near the bazaar in Kissa Kahani, or Street of the Storytellers, at a time when the streets of Peshawar, in northwestern Pakistan, were crowded with people shopping for an approaching festival, the police said.

The day he was shot, it was early, but hardly a time when the streets are empty.

But fearful of a public reaction at a time when the streets are already near boiling, the government of President Mohamed Morsi has so far resisted an I.M.F.

The courts entered the picture at a time when the streets were thick with homeless people and the city seemed either unwilling or unable to care for them as the State Constitution requires.