Sentence examples for built this city from inspiring English sources

The French built this city in the style of the Mediterranean.

"The Nabateans who built this city also believed in magic," he murmurs, and disappears into the night.

But in the middle of the 20th century the polyglot culture that built this city was all but wiped out by war, mass murder and postwar ethnic cleansing.

But as Angolans go to the polls on Friday for the third time in the country's troubled history, Mr. Silva, for one, does not plan to vote for the party that built this city of plenty.

"Poles built this city — this is a Polish city," waving his hand toward the buildings in front of us and making me uncomfortable with his critical remarks about Ukrainians.

Everything seen from within now spreads below: theaters, churches, plazas, domes, spires and, rising above it all, the immense bulwark of the mines, whose glittering bounty built this city.

"His dream was to build this city on the left bank of the Hudson River.

"But it came to the point where we cannot afford, with the loss of income and the loss of revenue that the city has had because of the explosion, to go out and get a grant or a loan to build this city back.

On the other front, the street-naming proposal, which is expected to move to the City Council next month, is being denounced by some black residents as an affront to the countless other former slave families who helped build this city with all manner of distinction.

But, in 2012, they decided they were going to build a new city and are in the process of removing 700 mountains to build this city.

With so many others, I've done what I can to help build this city, focusing my time and effort at the intersection where the interests of labor, employers, and community come together.