Sentence examples for suburbs work from inspiring English sources

What makes the New York suburbs work is a kind of osmosis.

In earlier contract negotiations, City Hall pointed out that on average, teachers in the surrounding suburbs work 36 minutes more per day than their city colleagues.

Thirty percent of the 173,000 Filipinos in the city and its suburbs work as nurses or other health practitioners -- four times the rate for the entire city population, according to the 2000 census.

I sympathize with the plight of Fred and Mary Froelich in West Windsor, N.J., as described in "As Taxes Rise, Suburbs Work to Keep Elderly" (front page, Feb. 27).

He was raised largely in the suburbs, worked in the White House at a young age and amassed great wealth.

The band took its time recording "The Suburbs," working and reworking songs for much of a year in homes and studios, using 24-track tape.

For now, Mr. Wright plans to endure his new, lengthy commute to the Philadelphia suburbs, working partly from home while looking for a job in New York.

ON THE SCREEN The ad intersperses scenes of Mr. Gormley chatting with middle-class citizens in leafy suburbs, working in his office and being honored by Gov. Christine Todd Whitman.

"The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" is about a public-relations specialist who lives in the suburbs, works for a media company in midtown, and worries about money, job security, and educating his children.

For years he has preached the values of inter-faith harmony from his mosque in Paris's poor and fractious north-eastern suburbs, working with Jewish leaders, inviting them to his home and urging young people of all religions to embrace harmony in place of hatred.

He is easily mocked as the ultimate Washington bloviator, but on a campaign night that required instant analysis and a lot of gab, his bluster and fondness for colorful analogies — "The Music Man," Lexington and Concord (at least three times) and his assessment that Mike Huckabee would now have to repot his plants in Republican suburbs — worked in his and the viewer's favor.