Sentence examples for lead belt from inspiring English sources

There is no question that neighborhood compositions in the lead belt have changed significantly since the city's first lead paint law was enacted, in 1960.

Missouri is one of the country's leaders in lead production, and deposits of lead and zinc continue to be discovered in the mineral-rich zone known as the Viburnum Trend (or the New Lead Belt) in southeastern Missouri.

As written, the legislation would cover children through age 7. It would disproportionately help minorities, particularly those who live in what supporters have called the "lead belt": a swath of neighborhoods from Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn to Jamaica, Queens.

Although lead rates have been steadily declining in the city, pockets of higher rates have persisted along a so-called lead belt running from Williamsburg and Fort Greene through central Brooklyn into Queens.

But as lead in the broader environment ebbed, the urban archipelago of New York's lead belt, and some even more seriously afflicted neighborhoods in Philadelphia, Chicago and Providence, emerged even more starkly.

Bloomberg officials wanted to see lead poisoning eliminated in what some officials call the city's "lead belt," neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens, and to hold landlords accountable for failing to remove the toxic metal.

But the invisible threat persists in the city's so-called lead belts — areas of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island where the rates of children showing elevated levels are routinely the highest in the city.

A dozen black-suited scuba enthusiasts kneel in a fairy ring on the bottom; all of us weighted down with lead belts, holding green dive lights above our heads, like landing lights.

The young female soldier who is the lead singer belted out "I Kissed A Girl" — Katy Perry's ode to Sapphic smooching.

Gary LeVox, the lead singer, belts out the glorious refrain, which has lyrics just vague enough ("It's the one thing that's missin'/The one thing you're wishin' ") to ensure the song's utility as an all-purpose inspirational anthem.

As in most countries, recessions lead to belt-tightening among companies and consumers.