Sentence examples for road conversions from inspiring English sources

As downtown residents push for urban renewal (complete streets, one-way to two-way road conversions, increased public transportation and pedestrian access) they are often fought by suburbanites who typically consider downtown less a destination than a thoroughfare on the way to the office – by car – and back.

Short of a Damascus Road conversion to supply-side thinking in Tokyo, a depreciating yen seems inevitable.

Saul of Tarsus became Paul after his Damascus Road conversion.

Mr. Anthony referred to the Damascus-road conversion of Saul, a zealous Pharisee, who later became the Apostle Paul: "He didn't know the language either".

Our culture has gotten old: our churches are large but our religious homes are empty, the bureaucratic apparatus of the Church grows while our rites and our vestments are pompous… The scandals of pedophilia should push us toward the road to conversion….

In all cases however, the road to conversion presents serious challenges.

Companies suffering a competitive disadvantage will simply claim a "Road to Damascus" conversion.

This was a road to Damascus conversion taken as Gove got into downtown Damascus itself.

John McDonnell, a left-winger, who is also standing in the leadership race, welcomed their "road to Damascus conversion" – but said it had come far too late.

The commission voted unanimously to propose for comment a "road map" for conversion, with eventual adoption depending in part on revised provisions for financing the group that writes the international standards.

In his autobiography/new age business manifesto Screw It, Let's Do It, Richard Branson shared the inside story of his road to Damascus conversion to the fight against climate change.