Sentence examples for doing in downtown from inspiring English sources

Iceland got used, in the bad years, to receiving tumid little lectures from outsiders on how such simple people allowed themselves to get caught up in a big, bad world beyond their ken — though the truth is that, while Iceland obviously did silly things with banks, they were the same kind of silly things with banks that the masters of civilization were doing in downtown Manhattan.

Now they're coming for the city: one opened in College Point, Queens, this year, another did in downtown Brooklyn, and there are plans to invade Manhattan.

Chaplin invited Einstein, and this was the moment when, with all the crowds mobbing them, Chaplin said to Einstein, 'People cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because nobody understands you.' A lot of the location work in that film was done in downtown LA".

And their shops were instrumental, they say, in transforming what was a downtrodden block several years ago into a bustling commercial strip where shops stay open late at night and people mill about on the street the way they do in downtown Cairo.

For those willing to venture beyond the beach, there's plenty to do in downtown Freetown.

Virtually all of the company's manufacturing, distribution and retail is done in-house in downtown LA, by employees – the majority of whom are immigrants – who are paid more than twice the minimum wage, offered low-cost, full-family healthcare, and allowed free international phone calls during work hours.

What is he doing, then, in downtown Manhattan?

"We looked very closely at what they did in their downtown," said Paul Wood, an aide to Mr. Delfino.

Imagine the utter absurdity of having to practice sitting on a cactus, as Peter Gallagher was required to do in the downtown rehearsal room of "Noises Off," while rescue efforts were being carried out in the rubble a mile and a world away.

Storefronts in the quaint business district stand empty — as they do in other downtowns, a testament to the troubled times — while chain stores like Dunkin' Donuts have moved in, the economy notwithstanding, displacing smaller retailers and altering the ambience.

The government never says it's going to do this in downtown Kabul where the rich guys live".