Sentence examples for offshore city from inspiring English sources

It possesses tideland oil rights, and offshore city derricks are concealed as skyscrapers on landscaped islands.

While the production employed many locals, the narrative treated Hobart as basically an offshore American city.

A tourist base for the Great Barrier Reef offshore, the city has botanic gardens and celebrates an annual eisteddfod, a Welsh cultural festival.

But now, at this distance, seeing Manhattan from a sailboat a mile offshore, the city appeared delicate and fragile, a jewel.

Today, however, many of those factories that won World War II for America have been shuttered and offshored to cities with names like Chengdu, Chongqing, and Shenzhen.

The effects of such corporate success in western cities are muted because financialised companies sterilise reserves offshore; and at city level, corporate success often turns into crowding out (not trickle down), as when Google workers compete for San Francisco housing.

But aides said that for offshore locations, the city was eyeing the generally windy coast off Queens, Brooklyn and Long Island for turbines that could generate 10percentt of the city's electricity needs within 10 years.

I can only imagine the effect of the proposed Long Island-New York City offshore wind project.

If it is accepted, Chicago will play a big role because we have historical data showing that sturgeon once spawned in the shoals right offshore from the city".

When engineers are satisfied that everything is ready, a barge will carry the 260-ton pioneer to its anchoring spot about two and a half miles offshore near the city of Reedsport, on the central coast.

For instance, why, after an initial wistful journey out to the Farallon Islands, the Mesozoic outcrops some 28 miles offshore yet within city limits (where rival bands of nest raiders touched off the "Egg War" of 1863), does he opt to spend the second chapter in the present-day Tenderloin, a zombieland of homelessness and hopelessness that makes the Kansas City of "Looper" look like Pleasantville?