Sentence examples for grinding city from inspiring English sources

The route screams: Beware grinding city!

Cities, to them, were Little Rock, Fort Smith, Oklahoma City: raffish, expanding towns, more than complex, grinding cities.

In the postwar years, as the UK's rapid growth in car use threatened to grind cities to a halt, proposals for "comprehensive redevelopment" came thick and fast.

The "rooftop video" is a genre in its own right (see Oasis's Supersonic, opposite King's Cross Station in London) but U2's contribution sees the band seemingly grinding a city to a halt.

"Grind City" is my full on nod to the Chicago originators, with a bit of a Toronto vibe," Tobin tells THUMP.

After playing shows with acts including DJ Paypal, Humans, and more, he's finally releasing his debut EP 1990 this week, and today we're premiering his new song "Grind City".

And Mr Ikeguchi says that even modest government initiatives, like demolishing abandoned houses in Irifune to attract newcomers, take years to grind through city hall.Like the elders of Nagasaki, the prime minister, Naoto Kan, realises that Japan must look abroad since its own markets are shrinking.

Some major infrastructure projects promise to stop the city grinding to a halt.

His vision of the grinding and struggling city where everyone seems to have an angle has the feel of a time capsule; Harrison films with a haunted tension and a gravelly black-and-white palette that lend the moment an air of instant nostalgia.

But the institutional failures represented by Miceli's death, the lack of justice in the Newlin-Rayder case and the sorts of brazen shootings seen on St Charles Avenue (which stem in part from criminals who know just how ineffective the criminal-justice system can be), are slowly grinding down this city's incredible fortitude.

Amanda Atwood, who also lives in the capital, said the city is grinding to a halt due to the financial crisis.