New Orleans had a notorious red-light district extending over twenty-eight city blocks, and the business-minded mayor of the city journeyed to Washington to present the case for `` the God-given right of men to be men ''.

The present campus was first leased to the NCE in 1922 by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation when Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das was the mayor.

" The street was closed and decorated with flags and bunting, and the Times reported plans for New York's acting mayor Joseph V. McKee to present a " key to Cortland Street " to the then-reigning Miss New York, Frieda Louise Mierse, while a contest was held to name a " Miss Downtown Radio.

According to an article on The New York Times, the way in which the present mayor of Thessaloniki is treating the city's debt and oversized administration problems could be used as a paradigm by Greece's central government for a successful strategy in dealing with these problems.

The present mayor is Manuel Rodrigo Martins ( Social Democrat ) and the president of the Municipal Assembly is Domingos Duarte Lima ( Social Democrat ).

The present mayor is Councillor Michael Markham, who was selected in May 2012.

* John Henry ( Oshawa politician ) ( Born 1960 ), elected 2010, is the present mayor of Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

There was no police search for the mayor, Marian Karolak, who had vanished, and no effort to name the German units present at the time.

Since 1976, Mayors have been chosen for four-year terms, except for the present mayor who has been able to serve since 1988 for some reason.

* Dawn Zimmer, mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey ( 2009 – present )

Bob Mahony is the present mayor.

The Council, which is the township's legislative body, selects one of its members to serve as president to preside when the mayor is not present.

The present mayor is Roy McCarty Jr.

Shortly after the incorporation was made official, the first borough elections were held, with William H. Thomas becoming the first burgess, an office equivalent to a present day mayor.

At present, the mayor serves a four-year term, but that will be reduced to three years in 2012 following amendments to the city charter approved in late 2006.

Mayor Kenneth Neilson has been mayor from 2010 to present.

The present mayor is Marc Van Asch.

The position of " mayor " present in this type of legislative body is a largely ceremonial title, and may be selected by the council from among its members or elected as an at-large council member with no executive functions.

The present mayor is Dirk Pieters of the CD & V.

* Nikitas Kaklamanis ( 1946 – present ), doctor and politician, mayor of Athens

Former mayor Ken Livingstone referred to it as a " glass testicle ", while the present mayor, Boris Johnson, has referred to it as " The Glass Gonad " and more politely as " The Onion ".

Among those present at the ceremony were Jim " Mudcat " Grant, Indians president Mark Shapiro, Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson, and various members of Doby's family.

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In February 2007 the Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, visited the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone for an annual meeting that also involved the Mayors of Berlin and Paris, with the mayor of Beijing present as well.

The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.

While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

Everyone is ready to grant the Persians their history, but almost no one is willing to acknowledge their present.

It is said that, even at the present stage of Southern urbanization, such a city as Atlanta is not distinctly unlike Columbus or Trenton.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Harold Clurman is right to say that `` Waiting For Godot '' is a reflection ( he calls it a distorted reflection ) `` of the impasse and disarray of Europe's present politics, ethic, and common way of life ''.

The beatnik, seceding from a society that is fatally afflicted with a deathward drive, is concerned with his personal salvation in the living present.

For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at the moment of his collapse, all these elements come together in prophetic parody.

So it is that we relive his opening statement in the first television address with the dramatic immediacy of the present.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

Going back over this ground and analyzing the composition of forces which have created the present scene is one of the tasks undertaken by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, in Santa Barbara.

But however we come, finally, to explain and account for the present, the truth we are trying to expose, right now, is that the makers of constitutions and the designers of institutions find it difficult if not impossible to anticipate the behavior of the host of all their enterprises.

and the laughter and the happiness are even more pronounced when no company is present.

I am assured by experts that the thrust of our present missiles is fully adequate for defense requirements.

Steele's purpose is to present a general defense of his political writing and a resume of the themes which had occupied him in the Englishman ; ;

Undoubtedly one merit of the vast panorama of Gentile conceptions of the Jew unfolded in the present anthology is that it provides a formidable body of material that invites critical examination in terms of reality.

Properly used, the present book is an excellent instrument of enlightenment.

The continuities, contrasts, and similarities discernible when past and present are surveyed together are inexhaustible and the one is often understood through the other.