Sentence examples for metropolitan idea from inspiring English sources

There is a double movement between the metropolitan idea of England and the reaction against that.

With its jockey theme, gentleman receptionist and drinking-cartoon Bar Room, the "21" Club, a former speakeasy on East 52nd Street, is a touchstone for the particularly metropolitan idea of a restaurant with a tacit membership -- the only survivor of a saloon-society heyday that included the Stork Club and El Morocco.

When the bill of rights commission set up by the coalition government in 2012 went to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to find out what they thought of the HRA, they returned to London with a very blunt message ringing in their ears: the plan to repeal the HRA and adopt a British bill of rights is a ridiculous metropolitan Tory idea that should be put back in the box.

But then something happened among the high-earning metropolitan elite: that idea of ultra-smooth sexuality, skinny ties, scooters, and chillout compilations suddenly became old hat.

It is an idea as metropolitan, in the best sense, as, well, cocktails.

And coded into this conversation by the metropolitan elite is the idea that someone who paints this subject matter can't be taken seriously".

The Treasury supports the idea of metropolitan centres in the north of England linking up to become a "Northern powerhouse" as a rival to London.

Unfortunately, the approach adopted by specialists in new database and in real-time monitoring of the city phenomena lack the cultural foundations that would allow them to propose a different idea of metropolitan areas.

He also advanced the then-novel idea of metropolitan governance, to get around some of the problems caused by middle-class flight to the suburbs.

So I started writing the "Metropolitan" script precisely with the idea that I could film it for $50,000.

Following the events of September 11 , 2001 with consideration of other events including the Oklahoma City Bombing, the Federal Highway Administration proposed the idea that major metropolitan areas create evacuation routes for civilians.