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These folks see that same vacant land and those same abandoned homes as opportunity for new, entrepreneurial ideas and profit, so much so that former models can move to Detroit, buy property, start successful businesses and restaurants, and become successful community activists in their neighborhood, bringing about very positive change.
For all our flaws, we have abandoned these barbaric practices.
Here you see what was two miles of abandoned, degraded waterfront in the neighborhoods of Greenpoint and Williamsburg in Brooklyn, impossible to get to and impossible to use.
Now, as you may have noticed, I'm six-feet tall, and when I arrived at my chosen university and realized our men's Division III basketball team averaged five-foot-eight, I abandoned the on-campus scene and went online.
So it's ironic that the landscape I'd worked so hard to escape from, and the community that I'd more or less abandoned and exiled myself from should be the very landscape, the very community I would have to return to to find my missing muse.
And so, I abandoned my dream life for a single room on the backstreets of Kyoto, Japan, which was the place that had long exerted a strong, really mysterious gravitational pull on me.
As I sat in my cold cell, I felt helpless, unloved and abandoned.
And we learned also that the site was entirely abandoned in 1948.
He had installed the heavy equipment for his new process in an abandoned store in the vicinity of Kings Mountain, and for two months these 16 men would live and work together, mastering the new process.
Leave them abandoned, and they risk exploitation and abuse, and leave them unskilled and uneducated, and delay by years the return to peace and prosperity in their countries.
At the end of lunch, they untie the anchor, they set off through the Baths of Caracalla and over the walls of the city and then an abandoned gatehouse and decide to take one more look at the Pyramid of Cestius, which has this lightning rod on top.
In 1991, a 50-year agreement was entered into that stops any exploitation in Antarctica, and this agreement could be altered, changed, modified, or even abandoned starting in the year 2041.
In underground rail systems like those in London, Moscow, and New York City, hundreds of drainage pumps are abandoned, flooding the tunnels in just three days.
Humanitarian principles are tested, questioned, and often ignored, but perhaps more importantly, we have abandoned the search for justice.
All of us know about failing housing markets and the challenges of blight, and I feel like we talk about it with some of our cities more than others, but I think a lot of our U.S. cities and beyond have the challenge of blight, abandoned buildings that people no longer know what to do anything with.
This building, which had been the former crack house on the block, and when the building became abandoned, it became a great opportunity to really imagine what else could happen there.
What do we do with these abandoned buildings?
They found her abandoned boat two months later adrift near France.
After the Romans left Britain in 410 CE, Saxon invaders from what’s now Germany and Denmark quickly capitalized on the vulnerability of the abandoned territory.
He told me that he had just visited what he thought was an abandoned warehouse where the Detroit police department was storing evidence.
Inside were 11,341 abandoned, untested rape kits.
Natasha's kit sat on the shelf in that abandoned warehouse for 26 years.
She was taken to an abandoned house, to a bedroom in that house, that was filled with trash.
In 2015, the Obama White House and the US Department of Justice put the number of untested, abandoned rape kits at 400,000, across this country.
They had abandoned the Viking language and culture in favor of a French lifestyle, but they still fought like Vikings.
This figure here shows the stormwater park that they're building by hooking a series of stormwater collection systems, or storm sewers, and routing that water into an abandoned gravel quarry.
He found quantum physics so philosophically disturbing, that he abandoned the theory he had helped make and turned to writing about biology.
At first, people used new units alongside old ones, and the Republican Calendar was eventually abandoned.
They are completely scrapped or abandoned.
Violence as a tool of conflict could then be abandoned in the same way that bows and arrows were, because we have replaced them with weapons that are more effective.
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