Sentence examples for idea of town from inspiring English sources

She also floated the idea of town halls being allowed to keep council tax revenues from new housing for a period of up to three years to fund roads, schools, and other community facilities in new developments.

Bristol was among the first cities to adopt the idea of town twinning.

By the 1640s the idea of town-supported schooling had lost its novelty.

Times Square may not be anybody's idea of a town hall.

"The idea of the town is that you can get whatever you need.

"People in Connecticut are vested in the idea of their town going it alone," Carl Goldfield, an alderman in New Haven, said.

I liked the idea of this town being cut off from the rest of Turkey by snow; and there is a military coup".

His seminal 1968 book, The Idea of a Town, established his position as an anthropologist of architecture, radically rethinking the cities of ancient Greece and Italy as not just the products of practical concerns, but of underlying sacred and symbolic orders.

"What makes you think people are going to want to wake up to Dodge City to the left and Vietnam to the right and the O.K. Corral in front?" Santhony Mason, a U.P.S. employee spending a vacation day hanging out with childhood buddies, scoffed at the idea of a town house surrounded by projects.

Though the idea of a town with two year-round Christmas stores and four fake windmills nestled in California's coastal highlands might seem a bit much to all but the most ardent Old World seekers, it's hard not to appreciate the Scandinavian traits that shine through.

The idea of leaving town actually sort of scared me.