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Description: With no infrastructure, scarce supplies, and little protection from the elements, several residents died of heatstroke. So to better house workers, the government designed and built the still thriving Boulder City, complete with numerous amenities, including a state-of-the-art hospital. Before construction on the dam could begin,

Eric Trump

For the Trump brand name, when we build, we want only the best buildings in the world. We travel a lot to see real estate projects worldwide, and we always study what can be done better. There's no question about it: a Trump Tower has to have the very best quality, amenities and facilities. People want that ultra-luxurious lifestyle.

American Businessman

Guy Standing

Using political power, the elite can induce local authorities to facilitate enclosure and privatisation of land, water, and other hitherto public amenities. And they can pressurise public administrations to cut taxes, reducing financial resources for maintaining the remaining commons.

English Actor

Karol G

When I go on trips, I like to have everything in one place. Someone to be in charge of the food, someone to keep things organized, and someone to attend to us. I need the house to be awesome, by the water, with all the amenities I need.

Colombian Musician

Gerard Arpey

Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business.

Sanjaya Baru

Every university has its problems. The issues range from lack of amenities, plagiarism, poor quality research, sexual harassment, faculty moonlighting, and faulty and biased recruitment.

Indian Public Servant

James B. Stewart

My experience bears out an adage about airlines: People almost always opt for convenience and price, even while complaining loudly about crowded planes and a dearth of amenities.

American Journalist

Mahatma Gandhi

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Indian Leader

Gita Gopinath

The awareness has increased about the need to increase womenwomen participation in the workplace, but there are no amenities to assure that.

Indian Economist

Robert Reich

Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.

American Economist

John Naisbitt

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

Focus on facilities that offer physical comfort or convenience in a specific location.

Physical Comfort

'Amenity' often indicates the quality of a place, with more amenities implying higher standards.

Quality Indicator

Amenities refer to communal or shared features, not items owned personally.

Not Personal Items

Shows polite and pleasant behavior that makes social interactions smoother.

Politeness

This usage of amenity as social politeness is not common and may seem outdated.

Old-fashioned Use

Found mainly in classical literature or historical texts, not in everyday conversation.

Literary Context

 With no infrastructure, scarce supplies, and little protection from the elements, several residents died of heatstroke. So to better house workers, the government designed and built the still thriving Boulder City, complete with numerous amenities, including a state-of-the-art hospital. Before construction on the dam could begin,

Blood, concrete, and...

 is this idea that we now have to have an antidote to the industrial city, which is going to be life in the country for everybody. And that starts to be delivered in the form of the railroad the country villa along the railroad line, which allows people to enjoy the amenity of the city,

James Kunstler: How bad...

 and transforming landscape into much more productive uses, so that it could be used for storm water management, for example, by using surface lakes and retention ponds, that created neighborhood amenities, places of recreation, and actually helped to elevate adjacent property levels.

Toni Griffin: A new...

 Wealthier families are better positioned to finance an elite, independent school and college education, access capital to start a business, finance expensive medical procedures, reside in neighborhoods with higher amenities, exert political influence through campaign finance,

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 this has all the amenities of a small apartment you've got your frigerator microwave big-screen TV leather couch plenty of counters stay down here for the rest of your life until the food and water runs introduction to bunker number one check

Selling Survival:...

 It's about a new kind of public amenity for the city, a place to gather and read and share. So how is it possible that in the same year, in the same country, two buildings, both called libraries, look so completely different?

Why the buildings of the...

 the world is looking at Africa in a completely contradictory way. On one side, it wants us to grow, to emerge from abject poverty, to build a middle class, to own cars and air conditioners and other modern amenities

The energy Africa needs...

 swallowtail butterflies was collecting minerals from the mud in a behavior called puddling finally I arrived at caracol the site was lush and peaceful with none of the typical tourist amenities like a gift shop or

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 From our very first history lessons, we're taught to believe that our modern world, with all of its advantages and amenities, modern health care, space travel, all the things that are good and exciting,

A New Understanding of...

 even the basic amenities they needed to survive filming the Snow Leopard have been a high point of my life responding to people in need and they are my people I mean how could you ignore that

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