Sentence examples for progress in a city from inspiring English sources

All represent progress in a city where check cashing and pawn shops are stand-ins for banks and boutiques.

Making progress in a city with two very powerful local health care giants dedicated to the status quo?

But most fans seem willing to shrug off such issues and to welcome any sign of progress in a city that is often painted as a place of crime, poverty and little else.

The usual talk show was in progress, a city official taking calls.

For all its glittery new buildings — the glass and steel of the Hauptbahnhof railroad station drawing the eye toward the pristine government quarter around the glass-domed Bundestag, or Parliament, and onto the high-rises of Potsdamer Platz — Berlin seems more like a work in progress, a city still striving for a heart, an identity to embrace past and present.

"They show significant progress for Hamas in a city that was a headquarters for Fatah.

"A year ago there was nothing opening," Mr Sheikh Mohamed says, before warning against taking progress for granted in a city where war has long been the norm.

Eventually black families started moving back to Ramona Gardens, a sign of progress in a community and a city that had largely put aside the violence of the 1990s.

"It's hard for bands to progress and get bigger in a city unless there is a spread of mid-level venues, and now the option of a venue the size of the Arches has gone from Glasgow".

Mr. Doctoroff rejected the analogy as ludicrous, and said that economic progress in the city had been hobbled by a mindset that regarded development in any form as bad.

Places like Urban Space 500, a restaurant that was funded by 500 backers (based on the original Urban Space 100 concept in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) whose profits go back into social projects and startups helping to develop the city are creating ways for locals to get involved, giving them a way to make actionable progress in developing the city at a time when it needs it the most.