Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

Even when they are finished, however, the contrast will remain, for Istanbul is the only city in the world that is built upon two continents.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

Even in the late 18th century the Abbess of Burtscheid was prevented from building a road linking her territory to the neighbouring estates of the duke of Jülich ; the city of Aachen even deployed its handful of soldiers to chase away the road-diggers.

Even though the island is just minutes off Interstate 880 in Oakland, the speed limit for the city is 25 mph ( 40 km / h ) on almost every road.

Even though the rights of the individual were not secured by the Athenian constitution in the modern sense ( the ancient Greeks had no word for " rights "), the Athenians enjoyed their liberties not in opposition to the government but by living in a city that was not subject to another power and by not being subjects themselves to the rule of another person.

Even the minimal requirements of a central government, skilled personnel and officers, equipment, and a capital city with government buildings were missing.

Even after several more rounds of deliberations, the Red Sox could not reach an agreement with the city of Boston for a new stadium.

Even with a license, Bargrave was prohibited from carrying any books, " printed at any heretical city, as Geneva, Amsterdam, Leyden, London, or the like ".

Even though every district has its own urban core, the real city center is between Bund to the east, Nanjing Rd to the north, Old City Temple and Huaihai Road to the south.

Even though it was not the capital city, Rio acted as a Brazilian unifier, and the fact that samba originated in Rio helped the unification process.

Even the less damaged buildings in entire city blocks were torn down by the order of occupational authorities and large swaths of land turned into public parks.

Even though the city is densely populated, many of the people are isolated and estranged from their loved ones.

Even if some sports are official sports of the IWGA, they can be classified as invitational by the hosting city.

Even after the recession hit, the city ’ s budget continued to increase, to a total of more than $ 6 billion a year.

Even though Perugia is located in the central part of Italy, the city experiences a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfa ) similar to much of Northern Italy.

Even now the city is famous for its parks and greenery.

Even after this was done the allied city of Utica defected to Rome, and a Roman army of 80, 000 men gathered there.

Even though Zug has a population of about 25, 000 there are about 24, 000 jobs and 12, 900 registered companies in the city.

Even then each city can and often does place restrictions on sale and use.

Even during his lifetime, the city was renamed Gorky following his return to the Soviet Union in 1932 on the invitation of Joseph Stalin.

Even within the city, not all roads are paved and some of the ones that are paved are not in good condition.

Even today in the city of Cusco, Peru it is common to see the flag around the city displayed even in government buildings and in Cusco main square.

Even though the city expended over eighty million dollars acquiring and demolishing homes, the area where the taken homes once stood is now vacant.

Even as it deployed Blue Streak, a high-altitude weapon, that year the government decided that because of anti-aircraft missiles ' increasing effectiveness, V bombers would have to convert from high-altitude to low-altitude attacks.

Even if the initial regulation was well-intentioned ( to curb actual abuses ), and even if the initial lobbying by corporations was well-intentioned ( to reduce illogical regulations ), the mixture of business and government stifle competition, a collusive result called regulatory capture.

Even then, two-thirds of that was government spending.

Even defining degrees of legal independence has proven to be a challenge since legislation typically provides only a framework within which the government and the central bank work out their relationship.

Even if Attlee had been prepared to serve under Chamberlain ( in a " national emergency government "), he would not have been able to carry the party with him.

Even before he was inaugurated Eisenhower accepted a request from the British government to restore the Shah to power.

Even before Christianisation, the Imperial Roman government had suppressed many pagan, Christian, philosophical and divinatory texts that it viewed as threats to Roman authority, including those of the Greek mystic and mathematician Pythagoras.

Even more surprising was Carías's public acceptance of defeat and his urging of his supporters to accept the new government.

Even though many repeat the cliché that Italy had over fifty governments in its first fifty years of democracy to stigmatise its alleged political instability, Italy's main political problem was actually the opposite: in all the course of the so-called First Republic, the government was in the hands of the Christian Democrats and their allies, since it was unacceptable for a communist party to rule a western country during the Cold war.

Even before Japan regained full sovereignty, the government had rehabilitated nearly 80, 000 people who had been purged, many of whom returned to their former political and government positions.

Even if he was willing and able to escape Berlin and reach the north, it was unlikely that Dönitz, whose only concern was to negotiate a settlement with the western Allies that would save Germany from Soviet occupation, would want such a notorious figure as Goebbels heading his government.

Even into the 1990s, the government viewed the forest as a valued reserve of natural products for noncommercial household consumption.

Even though in the 1960s, a couple ( of more than two thousand ) municipalities were governed by opposition parties, the first state government to be won by an opposition party was Baja California, in 1989.

Even the government functions primarily as a puppet state of the network executives, serving mainly to pass laws — such as banning off switches on televisions — that protect and consolidate the networks ' power.

Even many who agreed with some of McVeigh's politics viewed his act as counterproductive, with much of the criticism focused on the deaths of innocent children ; critics expressed chagrin that McVeigh had not assassinated specific government leaders.

Even when it keeps to proper legislative form, though, Locke held that there are limits to what a government established by such a contract might rightly do.

Even though the central government has progressively transferred roughly the same amount of competences to all communities, devolution is still asymmetrical.

Even though under the new government both public and private ownership were accepted, government spokespersons occasionally referred to a reconstruction phase in the country's development, in which property owners and the professional class would be tapped for their managerial and technical expertise.

Even though the United States Federal Trade Commission and other government agencies are well aware of the Nigerian and advanced fee fraud, victims can still be tried and convicted of crimes themselves.

Even though it was technically responsible to the central government, Zhou's political department operated under a direct mandate to indoctrinate Whampoa's cadets in the ideology of the KMT for the purpose of improving loyalty and morale.