These employees (like "cosmopolis") --- who by just plain “bad luck of the draw” find themselves in this particular targeted civil service classifications --- have now been "politicized" by the Mayor in the campaign, and are now easily demonized in the public eye (as Chump Change comments would attest) as the Mayor and Council look to address very severe, real budget deficits over the next few years. From Wordnik.com. [City Light Employees Plan to Unionize « PubliCola] Reference
But of course what counts is the idea of the city as a 'cosmopolis' first, rather than the mere capital of England: the British uniform matches the former much better than the latter. From Wordnik.com. [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference
"Baghdad was literally a cosmopolis," says Mr. Campion. From Wordnik.com. [Harvest Moons and the Seeds of Our Faith] Reference
First, the cosmopolis again becomes a community for certain people only. From Wordnik.com. [Cosmopolitanism] Reference
I walked with him and Zheng last night through campus and to my surprise, it was a busy cosmopolis of Zhongworen of all ages. From Wordnik.com. [SIchuan Normal University Main] Reference
London was supposed to be the flower of cities all, as Chaucer said, an incredible cosmopolis in an otherwise primitive country. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
Rhode Island, a simplicity and sturdiness of character not to be found elsewhere, I believe, so near the great cosmopolis, and which is worthy. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
That is why I plead with American friends to think not just who is best for America but who is best for the wider cosmopolis to which American presidents, for better or worse, claim to lead. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Jenkins: The Second Vote] Reference
Reborn, Journals & Notebooks 1947 – 1963, the first of three planned volumes, contains the earliest expository efforts yet published from the late essayist laureate of the American cosmopolis. From Wordnik.com. [Sontag on Sontag] Reference
Young Dubliner Alan Cooke reflects on his recent immigration to New York City, contemplating the concept of home and the ever changing cosmopolis in this award winning first feature directed by Dawn Scibilia. From Wordnik.com. [TV Tonight] Reference
Even in a cosmopolis like this, it could not be every day that an outworlder went flying beneath your window, and Bowman assumed that he was the very first human being that anyone on this planet had ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Worlds of 2001]
Dorsenne, alert and foppish, the dandy of literature, so gayly a scoffer and a sophist, to whom antique and venerable Rome was only a city of pleasure, a cosmopolis more paradoxical than Florence, Nice, Biarritz. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But this free, civic politics should be circumscribed to the basics garbage, roads, police and in each cosmopolis the citizen should find himself in perfect liberty to engage continuously and relentlessly in the processes of capitalistic exchanges. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Most of my central political concerns are connected with individual freedom and substantive justice, or with mutuality and solidarity, for me, and for the people that I love, and for my neighbors both in my physical neighborhood and in the cosmopolis. From Wordnik.com. [Announcing ALLiance a journal of theory and strategy] Reference
There is also something importantly wrong here that goes to the heart of libertarianism- and Randianism- and America- and ‘Western civilisation’ which I wish to emphasise is not the same as ‘liberal civilisation’ or cosmopolis- too often an unknown ideal. From Wordnik.com. [Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #45] Reference
It was Dürer whose readiness to embrace the new technology of the printing press – his prints are as great as his paintings, or greater – set the modernising, forward-looking, and productive tone of German art right down to today, when new art flourishes in a Berlin that is the worthy heir to the cosmopolis portrayed in Kirchner's painting Potsdamer Platz. From Wordnik.com. [Auf wiedersehen Britart: Germany wins when it comes to art] Reference
However, as Councilmember Sally Clark has eloquently stated, budget shortfalls should be addressed by “… reviewing priorities and making decisions by programs and departments, rather than by targeting individuals or job titles … in a smart, systematic way that maintains basic services, matches our values as a community, and respects the good work of city employees.” cosmopolis. From Wordnik.com. [City Light Employees Plan to Unionize « PubliCola] Reference
They are an element in the cosmopolis which was the ideal of the world-conqueror. From Wordnik.com. [Josephus] Reference
Brasserie and Hungarian Goulash Rendezvous -- a tiny cosmopolis in itself -- and it did a rushing business. From Wordnik.com. [The Music Master Novelized from the Play] Reference
For Bruges at this date was the market of the world, the very centre of the world's commerce, the cosmopolis of the age. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series] Reference
The magic ship of man's destiny is to compass the cosmopolis of the Stoics, a terrestrial order in harmony with the whole universe. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth] Reference
Metternich, -- indeed, the elite of cosmopolis, -- appeared upon the stage, and in clever verse and epigrammatic song amusingly dealt with the gossip of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Maximilian in Mexico] Reference
The first of his real compositions are like fragments of some cosmopolis of caves and towers of steel, of furious motion and shafts of nitrogen glare become music. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
Constantinople is not a national city; it is now, and it has always been, an artificial cosmopolis, and Constantinople and the Dardanelles are essentially the gate of the Black Sea. From Wordnik.com. [What is Coming?] Reference
A great light had arisen; the city, notably a metropolis for many years already, had opened out into a cosmopolis; the poet had at last arrived, and the earth was now tolerable for the foot of man. From Wordnik.com. [With the Procession] Reference
You see, I, too, have graduated in the study of humanity in the university of cosmopolis; I don't think my degree is as high as yours, and I certainly did not take it so young, but I believe I know an adventuress when I see one. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Comrade] Reference
I resolved to preempt a place in the history of the great Northwest which was at once a wilderness and a cosmopolis, for in it I found men and women from many lands, drawn to the mountains in search of health, or recreation, or gold. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of the Middle Border] Reference
Chinese government considers the South China Sea a "core interest" (much to the consternation of the United States and its allies) partly because it is the gateway to this tropical Muslim cosmopolis that the Chinese know well from the medieval trading networks of the Tang, Song and. From Wordnik.com. [latimes.com - News] Reference
Disconnected - cosmopolis (compilation) the persuaders - thigh spy - atco recs. poni hoax - budapest. From Wordnik.com. [Charlottesville Blogs] Reference
Hey schmutzie. are you in cosmopolis for your birthday? give a call if you are and you'd like to hook up for a pint. crazymumma on December 28, 2008. From Wordnik.com. [Grace In Small Things: Part 35 of 365] Reference
The sense in which I hope for everything to become a neighborhood is a sense that’s rooted in a vision of the emerging cosmopolis, of which every rational being is a citizen and within which every community is a neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [Hoverbikes] Reference
Snark is so 2003. cosmopolis. From Wordnik.com. [McGinn Staff Received Salary Increases While Mayor Froze Salaries in Other Departments « PubliCola] Reference
There's one in every minor cosmopolis. From Wordnik.com. [galleon trade edition] Reference
We're above that, we're a cosmopolis. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
British colony, aboriginal, immigrant cosmopolis. From Wordnik.com. [L.A. Times - Commentary] Reference
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