Sentence examples for international district from inspiring English sources

Seattle's Asian population is concentrated in the downtown International District, but it has begun to extend throughout the metropolitan area.

In a fit of Orwellian marketing in 2009, the city renamed this sprawl of Latinos, Asians and other ethnic minorities the "international district".

A tussle encapsulating the tensions between the city's international aspirations and local realities is playing out in microcosm at a prime property in the heart of Geneva's international district.

Located in the International District, the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience commemorates the contributions of Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian peoples to the history, politics, and culture of the region.

Jerusalem and its holy sites were deemed so unique that, under the doomed 1947 United Nations partition plan for turning the British Palestine mandate into Arab and Jewish zones, the city was to become an international district.

The year is 1942, and in the wake of Pearl Harbor sentiment against Seattle's Japanese-American population has been growing; 12-year-old Henry Lee's parents make him wear an "I Am Chinese" button whenever he leaves their International District apartment, because they fear he will mistakenly be picked up by the police.

In Seattle, for example, a grant will help finance activities at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience as part of a larger effort to help the Chinatown-International District.

Over the next half-century, the family-owned Mori Building grew from a single rice shop into a $12 billion empire of 121 structures, most around the southern Toranomon-Roppongi international business district of Tokyo.

Studio Daniel Libeskind, based in New York, announced late Tuesday that it had won a competition to spearhead a $20 billion, 34-million-square-foot riverfront project (above) in the Yongsan international business district.

The state-owned broadcaster's move from an obscure part of western Beijing to a new international business district highlights its global aspirations.For more than a year, passers-by have watched the 230-metre (750-foot) towers creep up at a perilous six-degree angle.

"My vision is to develop a world class international business district which will initially target Asian businesses to help them secure a destination in London".