Sentence examples for independent town from inspiring English sources

The houses, though modern, still fell within the rubric of the traditional fully independent town house.

Merged with Yola in 1935 by the Fulani administration, Jimeta regained independent town status with its own council in 1955.

Leith was once an independent town, and before the railway era it was the chief port of entry for travelers to Scotland.

Virginia Bucknor, an independent town and district councillor, representing the deprived Waterlees ward, says: "They are taken advantage of quite appallingly.

A bright yellow banner advertising a "Kung Fu Training School" hangs in front of Elmhurst's oldest church, a simple clapboard structure built in 1734, when the Queens neighborhood was still the independent town of Newtown.

It has existed as an independent town for 10 years, but was swallowed in the age of urban consolidation, the same impulse that led to the creation of greater New York in 1898 with the addition of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.

Although the Latins dwelled in politically independent towns, their common language and culture produced cooperation in religion, law, and warfare.

The Ga-speaking peoples were organized into six independent towns (Accra, Osu, Labadi, Teshi, Nungua, and Tema).

Brooklyn and Queens were once collections of independent towns whose homegrown economies were rooted in Long Island agriculture, not Manhattan mercantilism.

He opened them last night to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and a sellout crowd, mostly from the city's smallest borough, which fancies itself as an enclave of independent towns.

Independent towns for centuries — and still separated by a train station and the Partnach river — Garmisch and Partenkirchen were forcibly grafted together in 1935, under Hitler's orders, to host the next year's Winter Olympics.