In reality, Mount Isa is the second largest city in Australia ; there are several cities around the world with larger incorporated areas.

Most of Marvel's fictional characters operate in a single reality known as the Marvel Universe, with locations that mirror real-life cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

Parents moved their kids out of the cities to these horrible suburbs to save them from the ' reality ' of the cities and what they ended up with was this new breed of monster ".

Additionally, there are several vice provincial cities that are nominally under provinces but in reality have economic policies independent of their respective provinces.

By recognising Brian's authority over Leth Moga, that is, the Southern Half, which included the Provinces of Munster and Leinster ( and the Hiberno-Norse cities within them ), Máel Sechnaill was simply accepting the reality that confronted him and retained control over Leth Cuinn, that is, the Northern Half, which consisted of the Provinces of Meath, Connacht, and Ulster.

The subject is most commonly addressed in reference to fictional universes that differ markedly from reality, such as those that introduce entire fictional cities, countries, or even planets, or those that contradict commonly known facts about the world and its history, or those that feature fantasy or science fiction concepts such as magic or faster than light travel — and especially those in which the deliberate development of the setting is a substantial focus of the work.

In reality, Hockessin is almost exactly equidistant between the two cities, and shares a border with Pennsylvania.

In reality, only a few cities were loyal to the Seleucids during this period.

here's a harsh reality around violence and criminal justice in our inner cities.

The military operation was to be halted at this A-A line, but never reached it in reality as the German forces failed to capture either of the two cities as well as Moscow.

Although this may be true, the reality of it is that the existence of agglomeration economies is central to the explanation of how cities increase in size and population ; which places this phenomenon on a larger scale.

In recent years, stories have increasingly described events which bring the DC Universe farther away from reality, such as World War III occurring, Lex Luthor being elected as President of the United States in 2000, and entire cities and countries being destroyed.

* Many world cities and places which did not evolve as functional places with some basis in reality, as if they were creatio ex nihilo ( literally ' creation out of nothing '): Disney World ; Dubai ; Celebration, Florida ; and Las Vegas.

The supporters of a continuous green area were lucky that the municipality of Midden-Delfland became a reality: the cities of Delft, Vlaardingen and Schiedam wanted to build new houses here, and the Westland gardeners also wanted to expand.

In 1996, Van Alen Institute hosted an ideas competition called " Public Property " which asked designers “ to consider the urban potential of Governors Island in terms of spatial adjacencies and experiential overlaps between a range of actions, actors, events, and ecologies ... to acknowledge the physical reality of cities and their historic programmatic complexity as fundamental to the survival of a vital public realm .” The competition was open to anyone who registered.

Chandler concludes his essay by moving from reality in literature to reality itself, " a world in which gangsters can rule nations and almost rule cities ... it is not a fragrant world, but it is the world you live in.

In January 2008, viral marketing billboards for Oceanic Airlines were placed by ABC in various large cities around the world as part of the Find 815 alternate reality game.

The German player also receives extra reinforcements at Warsaw and Bucharest when the Russians draw near to these cities, or in the far north if Leningrad is captured by the Germans ( representing Dietl's forces, which fought at Murmansk in reality ).

Although May's group is indeed credited with building 20 cities in three years, the reality was that May found Magnitogorsk already under construction and the town site dominated by the mine.

While Saltykov-Schedrin, a forward-looking stalwart of the Saint Petersburg circles, had every opportunity to be imbued with the high ideals which were making their way into Russian cities from Europe, and to make these ideals the foundation to build his outward negativity upon, Pisemsky, once he found himself in the Russian provinces, became disillusioned in whatever ideas he'd gotten at the University, seeing them as idealistic with no roots in Russian reality.

The style is characterized by its use of location exteriors among the " rubble " of bombed-down cities to bring the gritty, depressing reality of the lives of the civilian survivors in those early years.

Though some scenes in the video feature cities like London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Shanghai and Tokyo, in reality the actual sets were constructed in Los Angeles and London only.

That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.

These never ceased to suggest that if, in the eyes of Marx and Lenin `` full communism '' was still a very distant ideal, the establishment of a Communist society had now, under Khrushchev, become an `` immediate and tangible reality ''.

but this grinning, broken head, not ten feet away from me, was the sharp definition of what my reality had become.

They knew that their perceptual experience differed from objective reality since they had seen the desk and ball prior to putting on the aniseikonic lenses.

Except for those minutes in her room, he had lost touch with her as a reality.

When, therefore, it turned its attention to the concrete entities with which popular imagination had peopled the world of spirit, these entities soon lost whatever status they had enjoyed as actual elements of external reality.

The statues of Apollo were thought to incarnate his living presence, and these representations of illusive imaginative reality had deep roots in the Minoan period, and in the beliefs of the first Greek speaking people who entered the region during the bronze-age.

The characters of Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty had in reality been a set of prototype programs written for the Analytical Engine.

In reality, however, the number of chariots in Ahab's forces was probably closer to number in the hundreds ( this due to archaeological excavations of the area and the foundations of stables that had been found ).

The original commission that reached Salieri in 1783 – 84 was to assist Gluck in finishing a work for Paris that had been all but completed ; in reality, Gluck had failed to notate any of the score for the new opera and gave the entire project over to his young friend.

They later discovered nearly all of the food they had been destroying was not being produced for guerrillas ; it was, in reality, only being grown to support the local civilian population.

Villeroi still believed ( on 22 May ) the Allies were a full day ’ s march away when in fact they had camped near Corswaren waiting for the Danish squadrons to catch up ; for his part, Marlborough deemed Villeroi still at Jodoigne when in reality he was now approaching the plateau of Mont St. André with the intention of pitching camp near Ramillies ( see map at right ).

As early as 1839 Russell had adopted the name Liberal Party, but in reality the party was a loose coalition of Whigs in the House of Lords and Radicals in the Commons.

The services were at the same time simplified and shortened, and the use of the whole Psalter every week ( which had become a mere theory in the Roman Breviary, owing to its frequent supersession by saints ' day services ) was made a reality.

In reality, it seems that Giulio was an apothecary ; as for the grandfather, he had died four years before Carlo's birth.

It was most likely politics which had the biggest impact in leading to a delay of almost three decades before the second commercial channel became a reality.

Elsie resented Ena's interference and gossip, which, most of the time, had little basis in reality.

At the 21st Party Congress Khrushchev boldly declared that Leninist legality had been reestablishing, when in reality, he himself was beginning to following some of the same policies, albeit not at the same level, as Stalin had.

The Volkssturm had existed, on paper, since approximately 1925, however it was only after Hitler ordered Martin Bormann to recruit six million men for this militia that the group became a physical reality.

The Neo-Platonists and some early Christian philosophers argued about whether existence had any reality except in the mind of God.

Before many-worlds, reality had always been viewed as a single unfolding history.

This change was a recognition of the reality that little remained of Imperial authority in the areas that had been the Western Empire, with even Rome and Italy itself now ruled by the essentially autonomous Odoacer.