Sentence examples for urban passage from inspiring English sources

For many people, that has meant the cities, where fatty foods at the local supermarket and fast food on every other corner have made have made becoming fat almost a rite of urban passage.

The LOS standards can be taken as the reference for designing and evaluating the urban rail transit passages.

On the basis of the survey results, the study proposed six LOS design standards for Beijing urban rail transit passages.

The House Speaker, Thomas S. Foley, said Mr. Bush had suggested at the meeting that his enterprise-zone proposal be broken out of his broader urban package to expedite passage before the Fourth of July Congressional recess.

Being robbed has become an urban rite of passage.

In urban rapid transit systems the squeling noise of railway wheels during the passage through narrow curves is very troublesome to passengers and city dwellers.

As he puts it in "Six Texts for a Film": "Birmingham's what I think with". In City (1961), whose verse and prose moves from dirty realism and detailed urban description to passages of hypnotic reverie, Birmingham has become an unreal, nameless city.

Referring to the method of passengers' perceptions on pedestrian facilities in urban rail transit and the survey idea of stated preference, a questionnaire on the basis of the perception has been conducted to explore the LOS for passages in urban rail transit.

Senator Roberti's passage from urban liberal to suburban law-and-order candidate echoes the trend of urban politics today.

The early days of the Obama administration saw the announcement of a White House Office of Urban Policy, the unveiling of several high-profile programs to invest in urban communities, and the passage of the stimulus.

It would seem that the last of the Bedouin towns to be established, Laqiya and Hura, were both planned to offer a certain degree of neighborhood segregation while still maintaining overall cohesive urban structure through direct passage between neighborhoods.