Sentence examples for on certain streets from inspiring English sources

Congestion was severe enough in European cities of the 17th century to require ordinances prohibiting parking on certain streets and establishing one-way traffic.

"On certain streets, you want to have active, commercial places," he said.

The district's drug trade is so widespread, and so wide open, that the police recently asked for special powers to disperse crowds on certain streets.

In 1900, the average population on the Lower East Side was more than 250,000 per square mile, and on certain streets three times that high.

Echoes of those conflicts, most particularly the last, still whisper to you in the quieter corners of Colmar and on certain streets in Strasbourg; it is easy to imagine soldiers advancing, rifles raised, through these medieval mazes.

But increasingly over the last few years, neighborhoods have complained of violations of bans on commercial traffic on certain streets, of buses idling at the curb for long periods or making illegal stops, and varied other offenses.

Every weekday morning in many Libyan towns, you can see people like this gathering on certain street corners, waiting for offers of casual labour.

Advocates for day laborers said that the arrests were highly unusual; the police have generally allowed day laborers to gather on certain street corners around the city in search of employment, a quest that has become increasingly difficult this year as the economy has worsened.

In addition, the uneven sidewalks on certain street segments were also mentioned, which made walking treacherous, particularly during inclement weather.

The writer is curious about those yellow, conical objects that are placed from time to time on the pavements of certain streets & intersections by traffic policemen.

The New Yorker, March 7 , 1959P. 28 The writer is curious about those yellow, conical objects that are placed from time to time on the pavements of certain streets & intersections by traffic policemen.