"Trade preceded agriculture; it preceded cities; it is a major component in human sociality.
Due to the lack of any form of mass transit besides bus prior to 2008, the Phoenix Metropolitan Area has remained a very automobile-dependent city, with its first freeway opening in 1958 a year preceding most cities' first freeway openings.
We can feel this as we walk through it: the life of this city is made possible by the life used in constructing the city — which is actually life that precedes the city and is ostensibly threatened by it.
It may well be that my intimation concerning those odd little green huts, the cabbies' shelters, is the right one: and that just as they look as if they preceded the city and its 400-year-old cabbing tradition, so may they remain when all the cabbies they once fed and housed are long gone.
The violence preceded the city graduating its biggest group of new police recruits in eight years at Navy Pier on Wednesday.
This view of Terminus retains some recent adherents, but other scholars have argued from Indo-European parallels that the personalised gods of Roman religion must have preceded the city's foundation.
If you haven't already heard, TC is hitting Savannah, Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, and Greenville over the course of July 6 through July 12. We'll be holding Office Hours in each city preceding the events, and then talking startups over some beers with the tech scene from each area.
New York preceded most cities in experiencing the historic drop in crime that has swept across America's urban areas and spurred an economic renaissance in many once-devastated neighborhoods.
He was one of 28 New Yorkers to fall ill from ciguatera between August 2010 and July 2011 — more cases than had been reported in the entire preceding decade in the city, according to a report released on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The same study said Airbnb activity contributed €430 million [$486 million] in the preceding year to the city's economy and created more than 4,000 jobs.
