Sentence examples for gains cities from inspiring English sources

And whatever gains cities achieved were overshadowed by growth in the suburbs, where most of the 578,176 new state residents since 1990 settled.

Garcetti said Philadelphia, which has hosted three Made in America festivals, offers an example of the gains cities can realize from such events.

But if a plan put forth by the medical center gains city approval, the Annenberg may be relieved of its pariah status, surpassed in height and maybe local resentment by a condo tower.

It gained city status in 1901.

Elected officials, labor organizations, civil rights groups and Jewish organizations condemned the policy, but the project quickly gained city approval.

POWERED by jobs at Amazon and Starbucks, Microsoft and the Gates Foundation, Seattle has become a famous brain-gain city.

Last season all were members of the squad who gained City a first championship in 44 years.

Prosecutors accused Mr. Papanicolaou of treating an official of the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development to a free trip to Greece as part of a scheme to gain city contracts.

If M.L.S. has its way, a 25,000-seat stadium will gain city and state legislative approval in the coming months, and construction will begin in 2014.

He also headed the board of Confucius Plaza, a low-income housing complex in Chinatown, for which he helped gain city approval.

The former councilor, Michael A. Brown, 48, was charged with a single count of bribery for taking $55,000 from F.B.I. agents purporting to seek his help in gaining city certification as a local business, according to a document filed in Federal District Court.