Once, during a tour of a food market in Australia, the burly but politically nimble city father was rash enough to whip out a notebook and record some of the prices until tradesmen started waving their fists at his gleaming bald pate.
Meanwhile, in the city, Father drives past decrepit shopfronts in buildings best described as formerly splendid.
Although we lived in the city, my father never let go of his youth as an Irish farm boy.
Just as well that there is no Father's Day in Vatican City, seat of the Holy Father.
He decided to sail not into the ocean but toward the city, where his father lived.
She is electioneering here in Pakistan's second-largest city on behalf of her father in his usual parliament seat, allowing him to focus on addressing rallies elsewhere.
In the early 1980s Dulany joined the New York City Partnership, an organization her father founded.
His father Roberto played under City boss Sven-Goran Eriksson at Sampdoria and Lazio.
His credentials as a Washington lawyer established, Nichols returned to the oil business at the urging of his father, an Oklahoma City oilman.
His support base lies elsewhere: in neighbouring Kufa, and in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City (named after his late father, a top cleric).
At one of the parks in the city this past weekend, a father named Al'aa was out with his three young children and his wife.
The story is simple: a teen-age boy, Xu Yun, leaves his poor rural village in an obsessive quest to find his prodigal and newly prosperous father in the big city of Zigong.
Even if the Mahdi Army is routed in Najaf, it will still have arms and supporters elsewhere in Iraq, not least in Baghdad itself, in the slums known as Sadr city, after Muqtada's father, who was a foe and victim of Saddam Hussein.
Technology races on, and there are fewer and fewer grown-up voices, like my father's and the city leaders of Indianapolis, to warn us away.
My father was a blue collar city worker at the water filtration plant, and my family lived in a teeny little apartment on the South Side of Chicago.
The sprawling Shiite slum in northern Baghdad, Sadr City, is named for Muqtada's father.
On visits to New Orleans, her father enjoyed taking us around the city pointing out the local landmarks--the St.
Ms. CONTEH: It's about, I'd say about 40 minutes away from where his father was the chief of that city.
Most of all, if he succeeds in his bid to reform the public schools, he will do something that no big-city mayor has ever done, including his father.
As a teenager, LaPierre would take his young neighbor along to the bowling alley on Saturday mornings, and he'd hang out at Lisk's house to talk government with Lisk's father, who was on the city council.
Democratic Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. notes that a city-funded scholarship program named for his father a former council speaker was cut in 2011 after the younger Vallone opposed Quinn on renaming the Queensboro Bridge for former Mayor Ed Koch.
My father was a pump operator at the city water plant in Chicago -- many people know that already.
As most of you know by now, my father was a pump operator at the city water plant in Chicago.
In fact, my father did commute daily to New York City from a small outpost on the commuter line called Talmadge Hill.
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In 2004, she and father founded DKMS Americas in New York City.
Crematoria in the neighboring city of Dujiangyan are completely full, so the father drove more than an hour to the provincial capital, Chengdu.
As many of you -- my father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and neither of my parents had a college degree.
My father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when my brother and I were young.
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