Sentence examples for city standing from inspiring English sources

The building stands out on the skyline of Barcelona; it is the third tallest building in the city, standing at 144.44 m (473.88 ft), with an area of over 50,000 square metres, of which 30,000 are offices.

DETROIT — There are 78,000 abandoned buildings in this city standing in various levels of decay.

"But this city, standing by itself, can't bridge the out-year gaps.

Now Manchester seems a city standing toe to toe with the energy of Hamburg or Barcelona as much as it does the energy of any other English city.

"He lived the existence of an itinerant musician," Marable writes, "traveling constantly from city to city, standing night after night on the stage, manipulating his melodic tenor voice as an instrument.

American by Purchase Only Right from the start, New Orleans has been a French and Spanish, black and Catholic city, standing well apart from the largely Protestant, Anglo-Saxon American norm.

Lowell eventually "saw" and published maps of not only canals but also vastly thick lines of cultivated vegetation, oases and cities, standing out against "one vast Sahara".

It's not a flashy place, but there's something unique that makes this one of the most charismatic places in England, with a food and drink culture that leaves other more feted cities standing.

But seeing local police in other American cities standing by idly while synagogues are burned and Jews are murdered, Newark's Jews decide to form an unofficial defense force, the Provisional Jewish Police, consisting of "incorrigible Jewish kids who had failed to graduate from high school".

Instead it sits, slightly forlornly, as a blighted, fascinating, charming, grisly spectacle of division, a touristic curio of two half-cities standing back-to-back while peering over their shoulders at the frayed bunting of nationhood atop those ruined buildings, and, beyond that, almost always, at the deepest blue sky.

Mr. Miner and numerous aldermen have criticized the city's appeal, but the city is standing firm.