Sentence examples for toughest streets from inspiring English sources

I have experienced the toughest streets of Philadelphia and Harlem, New York as well as the shanty towns and favelas of Brazil.

MIAMI — The video, shot with a hand-held camera, shows brawny Miami police officers breaking down doors and hauling handcuffed African-American suspects off some of the city's toughest streets.

He carried a police badge, two guns, a bulletproof jacket and a large stick while personally patrolling Jackson's toughest streets, although he was not certified as a member of the Police Department.

A CHURCH-based community development corporation on Chicago's west side is using a recently modernized rail transit line as the backbone of an ambitious retail and single family home development plan that it hopes will transform some of this city's toughest streets.

The Outcast examines the fallout for a middle-class, middle England family of the 1950s when the mother dies; Lullabies for Little Criminals is the story of a 13-year-old driven on to the toughest streets of Montreal; and Lottery sees a man with learning difficulties finding his family takes much more interest in him after he wins $12m.

Inspired by Chicago's "Ceasefire" model, the hybrid formula of Minority Report-style pre-crime mediation and outreach programs has been rebranded as "Cure Violence," an alternative approach for New York's toughest streets.

Yet it is there, and on a few surrounding streets, that you will find the toughest street-parking restrictions in the city: One hour only.

You invented Texas Hold 'Em half a century ago when playing illegally in backrooms along Staines Street in Fort Worth, Texas, a street you claim was "the toughest street in the world at the time"... Yeah, it was like the old west.

Anelka came through the tough streets of French immigrant struggles.

Hard-Boiled Streets "The Maltese Falcon" is set on the tough streets of the Tenderloin, where the book's author, Dashiell Hammett, once lived.

Mr. Moskowitz, 53, took up martial arts to survive as a scrawny, yarmulke-wearing teenager facing much larger thugs on the tough streets of the South Bronx.