Sentence examples for homes block from inspiring English sources

For preservationists, the challenge is to convince local power brokers that there is still money to be made by modernizing old single-story homes, block by block, and then allowing some of the original residents -- and their old Beijing ways -- to remain.

Storke Ranch is closed off to surrounding neighborhoods by tall concrete fences and the two-story homes block most visual access to distant spatial referents, such as the mountains to the north.

All along Interstate 94, gasoline stations and hotels were overrun, with dozens of cars and motor homes blocking offramps, as people fled the darkened areas.

Robbie Barr, the chairman, said the quality of care in the company's homes had not been affected by financial pressures – with three homes blocked from taking new residents by the regulator compared with a peak of 28.

Cobble Hill shares many similarities with the Upper West Side: It has desirable elementary schools at or near capacity, as well as million-dollar homes blocks from public housing developments.

Regardless, Gomez soon found his path to home plate blocked by McCann.

How about an aerial photograph of your home, block or county, with close-ups detailed enough to show a fire hydrant?

Table 3 Order of introduction of factors into logistic regression models   Factors Block 1 Age, gender, parental education, books in the home Block 2 Literacy and Numeracy Block 3 Educational Attainment.

Soon I received this note, "Preservation work on the Martin Luther King, Jr. birth home block in the MLK historic district will be performed by members of Greening Youth Foundation, a local youth corps, through the National Trust's HOPE Crew program.

Lovely homes fill block after block, but the commercial activity consists mainly of beauty parlors, nail salons and other prosaic services and products.

"Imagine coming home one day to find the entrance to your home blocked off without warning," Ms. Castillo said.