cities

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Let us swear to fight the Teules and the traitors who abet them, for our cities, our hearths and our altars; till the cities are a smoking ruin, till the hearths are cumbered with their dead, and the altars run red with the blood of their worshippers.

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  1. noun A center of population, commerce, and culture; a town of significant size and importance.
  2. noun An incorporated municipality in the United States with definite boundaries and legal powers set forth in a charter granted by the state.
  3. noun A Canadian municipality of high rank, usually determined by population but varying by province.

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  • Feeney argues that as ethnic social profiling is employed in English cities, why not the equivalent in NI? —  Slugger O'Toole
  • Segregation was on the rise in American cities, according to new census figures. —  Harper's Magazine
  • Central Oxford's "range" does not extend to a common feature in American cities - youths playing "private" music in public. —  On Line Opinion - Latest Articles
  • It's the responsibility of leadership to make the right decision in difficult circumstances … When other cities are adopting GreenLink concepts and putting them into place to become economic competitiveness, doesn't the Premier have a responsibility to sit back and say shouldn't we look at doing things differently? —  WindsorCityBlog
  • The hustlers in the cities were the ones with inventive opportunities, so they were the ones getting by. —  Peak Energy
 

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