When candidates descend on New Hampshire, they bring the media.
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Retail lobbying groups will descend on Capitol Hill this morning.
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BEIJING — The investigators descend on government agencies and corporate boardrooms.
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Volunteers descend on the truck and begin unloading the goods.
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During the breaks of play, everyone would descend on the bar.
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All 1,000 detainees will now descend on the country, they speculate.
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Twelve alien spaceships descend on Earth, hovering mysteriously in the sky.
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In Pakistan, wild boars descend on Islamabad, the capital, every winter.
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The police descend on grungy artist colonies but self-expression flourishes.
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Thousands upon thousands of, well, tourists will descend on the city.
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That work will continue Monday when educators descend on the Capitol.
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Go deeper: 2 stark stats as the global elite descend on Davos
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In England's north entire factories used to descend on the same resorts.
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As I descend on the planet, it's just what I had hoped.
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Clinton, or both, may soon descend on the woods of central Georgia.
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They descend on towns and villages, plundering crops and rampaging through homes.
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When flurries hit the two-inch threshold, plows descend on the city.
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Powell called on corporations to raise armies of lobbyists and descend on Washington.
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The governor will descend on Capitol Hill in the role of senator-elect.
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The ball finishes dropping as 3,000 pounds of confetti descend on Times Square.
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Mr. Salvini has called on his supporters to descend on Rome on Oct.
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Even with underscoring, though, tedium can descend on a play that's too diffuse.
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In October, about 100,000 tourists descend on the Westchester County village of 10,000.
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More than 100,000 people are expected to descend on the town on Saturday.
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Thousands of farmers are threatening to descend on Athens with their tractors on Feb.
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On December 9, the Vikings will descend on Scandinavia House (tickets are available here) .
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Chinese officials are expected to descend on Washington later this week for more negotiations.
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Hundreds of thousands of people descend on the Renaissance Festival in Minnesota each fall.
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"You want 80,000 Haitians to descend on Florida months before the election?" he said.
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Girls and boys descend on Cancun, Rome, and Panama Beach City, Florida, a.k.a. PBC.
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Over 250 of America's leading innovative companies will descend on Capitol Hill next week.
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The city more than doubles its population each day when visitors descend on it.
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Thousands of artists, actors, writers, jugglers and musicians descend on the city for its festivals.
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Uh, it's exhausting but you can see the end, the stakes really descend on you.
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Is the national hockey media going to descend on the arena and demand free food?
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Descend on the mountain's western side on several flights of stairs back to street level.
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Not to mention the tens of thousand of people set to descend on Milwaukee, Wis.
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Compelled by the smell of blood, the bats descend on Morbius, who screams bloody murder.
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National Guard, State Police descend on 81-year-old's property to seize single pot plant.
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This week leaders in advertising and media descend on Cologne, Germany for the annual Dmexco conference.
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I asked Yelp how it responds when angry mobs descend on businesses like the Red Hen.
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Each weekend of Coachella, over 100,000 attendees descend on Indio Valley, generating a lot of money.
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Once it matures, it releases spores, which descend on healthy and unsuspecting ants on the ground.
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The petition draws 60,000 supporters in just 48 hours, and news crews descend on the hospital.
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People would descend on Craster during the fortnight-long pit holidays and buy masses of kippers.
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Narrator: During harvest, 2000,21.2 workers descend on Champagne to pick grapes from 230,000 acres of vines.
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A traditional Chinese folk melody, the meditative "Wild Geese Descend on a Sandbank," scores the film.
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In just a few weeks, hundreds of climbers from around the world will descend on Everest.
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Each year, thousands of architecture fans descend on the Unité, taking photos even in the bathrooms.
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Its organizers say they expect 40,000 people to descend on the Great Lawn on each day.
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This time of year, productions of "The Nutcracker" descend on New York more reliably than snow.
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That's the situation that's about to descend on Brazil in the form of the 23 Rio Olympics.
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Twitter has been fully weaponized by hate groups who descend on users for ideological differences with impunity.
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The latter descend on this town of 0003,2000 each October for its Fall for Greenville food festival.
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Here is what some teams should and should not do when they descend on Buffalo this week.
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Each summer, travelers descend on Europe to see the same churches, museums, and landmarks as everyone else.
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"Over the last two weeks, we've seen every liberal Democratic group descend on these races," Law said.
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Crowds descend on the lox counter for the privilege of paying $42 per pound for sliced Nova.
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But while the actors and other boldface names who descend on the small Utah town from Jan.
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Every day, around 400,000 shoppers descend on the area to buy goods to resell across the country.
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Officers began to descend on the neighborhood and the exchange of gunfire pummeled the air like firecrackers.
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An estimated 50,000 people now descend on Mauerpark each Sunday, creating a feel-good free-range circus.
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Its members descend on the beach in Ugg boots and flapping Dryrobe ponchos, looking like colorful seagulls.
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An estimated 10 million visitors are expected to descend on Tokyo next summer for the 2020 Olympics.
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Watching Harvey descend on Houston reminded many of Superstorm Sandy in New Jersey nearly five years ago.
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In New York, thousands of cryptocurrency advocates are expected to descend on Consensus, a trade show/conference.
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For the uninitiated, the event sees 100-plus musicians descend on the Funkhaus for a week-long residency.
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Many Saudis descend on nearby Gulf states, where water parks and indoor skiing have been available for years.
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Besides local attendees and celebrants, 140,000 people are expected to descend on the city for Super Bowl 51.
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Next week, business and political leaders descend on Davos in Switzerland to attend the annual World Economic Forum.
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The picturesque quarter is now jammed with tourists who descend on it from omnipresent sleek Transgaviota tour buses.
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Once a year, millions of pilgrims dressed in white descend on Islam's holiest site: Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
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And it wouldn't be the last bit of Marvel magic that would descend on the Doctor Strange set.
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Kaman's This Is Fine evokes the spirit of the Women's March that will descend on Washington on Jan.
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Children and parents descend on the White House for the 85033th annual Easter Egg Roll on Monday. Sen.
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And he worried over the "highly synchronized" swarm of insects that descend on the monument in the evening.
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"It's a little scary to think that many people could descend on a town of 54," she said.
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WESTERVILLE, Ohio — Twelve Democratic presidential hopefuls will descend on Otterbein University on Tuesday for the fourth primary debate.
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Every Monday morning, roughly 40 new full-time Lyft employees descend on the company&aposs San Francisco headquarters.
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Nearly three dozen brands are set to descend on your TV screens during the Super Bowl this year.
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When the signal came, two dozen clinicians of different ranks and specialties would descend on the patient's room.
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From May to September, they descend on various Mexican states along the Pacific Ocean to lay their eggs.
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The world's best soccer players will descend on Russia for the 2018 World Cup beginning on June 14.
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Tweaks to both bills were expected to continue in days ahead as lobbyists descend on Capitol Hill seeking favors.
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Seven out of ten times you'll also climb something and then descend on a rappel line at the end.
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The thousands of developers expected to descend on San Jose this week write the apps in Apple's App Store.
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Klum also throws the buzziest Halloween party of the year, and dozens of costumed celebs descend on her event.
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Issuers descend on the city to flog securities denominated in local dollars to investors who also hail from abroad.
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Islam's special pilgrimage Each year, as many as 3 million pilgrims descend on the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca.
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Because their trips must fit certain categories, like educational travel, most descend on Havana rather than the coastal resorts.
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Every Friday night, hundreds of thousands of players descend on their local card shops to participate in licensed tournaments.
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The only thing actually frightening is when the photographers descend on you, taking your picture in the front row.
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During the peak summer season, about 230,22 people descend on the town, whose year-round population hovers near 823,282.
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Nelson Yuen, 25, a lifelong resident of Choi Hung, has seen the camera-toting crowds descend on his backyard.
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He had come to voice opposition to an event called Alienstock that was set to descend on his town.
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At the time, Denver was bracing for 80,000 people to descend on the city for the Democratic National Convention.
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In their separate chambers, they offer a grim image of the ultimate isolation that will descend on us all.
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Microsoft's co-founder, Bill Gates will be one of the big tech names expected to descend on Davos this month.
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As Austin readies for thousands of music lovers to descend on the city to score free tote bags and PARTY!!
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Although the city denied a permit for the rally, officials have been anticipating thousands to descend on Berkeley this weekend.
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Four hundred thousand people descend on a dairy farm northwest of New York City for three days of live music.
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More than 1,000 of mobility's top tech makers, founders, investors, engineers and researchers and will descend on San Jose, Calif.
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The largest conference in the mobile industry starts this weekend, with upwards of 100,000 people expected to descend on Barcelona.
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Crowds descend on cemeteries People flock to cemeteries through the holiday to visit the graves of dead relatives and friends.
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Telegraphy taps out the news that the author of "War and Peace" is dying, and reporters descend on the town.
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More than 10,000 people will descend on Moscone North to focus on anything and everything related to early-stage startups.
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This month, these miracle workers will descend on the park in a brand new fleet of 52 electric garbage carts.
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In less than one year, the sporting world will descend on Tokyo for the 224 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games.
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" A prominent extremist urged his followers to descend on the city of Kandy to "reap without leaving an iota behind.
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Thousands of gun rights activists from across the country are expected to descend on the Virginia State Capitol on Monday.
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An estimated 50,000 people, including thousands of delegates and elected officials, will descend on Cleveland for the four days of action.
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When 20 Democratic presidential candidates descend on Detroit this week, expect sparring over whether a major U.S. industry should even exist.
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At one point I climbed up a set of stairs, only to find a swarm of giant eyeballs descend on me.
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While some members of F-side vowed revenge, a temporary catatonia seemed to descend on both sides of the derby divide.
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This summer, millions of eyes will be watching Rio de Janeiro, as the 2016 Summer Olympics descend on the Brazilian city.
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This summer, millions of eyes will be watching Rio de Janeiro, as the 2016 Summer Olympics descend on the Brazilian city.
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To make matters worse, the government ignored its meteorologists' warning that an extraordinarily dense fog was about to descend on London.
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Like thousands of other martial artists who descend on Thai soil every year, Boyd came to Thailand to train and fight.
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In the weeks leading up to caucus night, candidates descend on the state to shake hands, kiss babies, and woo supporters.
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The anti-abortion march comes a day before thousands of women descend on Washington for their third march opposing Trump's presidency.
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Just a few miles south of the meeting room, throngs of tourists had started to descend on the beaches of Destin.
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Department store buyers and fashion bloggers usually descend on Paris and need to whizz from one catwalk show to the next.
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On Monday, thousands of gun rights supporters will descend on Richmond, Virginia, for the Virginia Citizens Defense League's annual Lobby Day.
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There is however one time a year every summer when top prosecutors descend on Washington for the annual US attorney conference.
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Poster power When students descend on DC tomorrow for the March for Our Lives, here are the posters they'll be carrying.
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They then descend on a day-long hike with their very own beer vehicles, but few make it to the end.
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Its policies and building habits are also responsible for the darkness that must now descend on northern portions of the state.
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The part where people descend on a rural Nevada desert town where they're really not welcome starts in earnest this weekend.
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Tens of thousands of people, including thousands of delegates and elected officials, will descend on Philadelphia for the four days of action.
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When masses of people from around the world descend on a city for the Olympics, public health experts get a bit jittery.
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Residents complain about tourists peeking over their fences or the thousands of children from neighbouring areas who descend on them at Halloween.
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Every year, fanatics of all stripes descend on key cities across the U.S. for comic book conventions, otherwise known as Comic Con.
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Fixie warriors and scraper cars alike descend on the humble truck, which bears an endearingly disproportionate rural landscape painting on the side.
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So we too will have to wait until later this winter, when the bishops descend on the Vatican and prepare their response.
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And even before Charlottesville, its problems with doxxing and "raids" — where trolls and abusers descend on unsuspecting communities — have been well-documented.
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The Blue Angels buzz overhead for Fleet Week as tens of thousands of business technology types descend on the city for Salesforce.
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An army of lobbyists for doctors, hospitals, consumers, drug makers and insurance companies will descend on Capitol Hill to shape the legislation.
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White nationalists and counterprotesters are expected to descend on Washington, D.C., on Sunday to demonstrate on the anniversary of Charlottesville's deadly rally.
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And Ms. Neugebauer has assembled a dream cast to embody the collective madness that seems to descend on those closest to Gladys.
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Democrats descend on Miami at a time when polls show that the issue of climate change is increasingly important to Democratic voters.
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Newly elected representatives will descend on Washington next week for freshman orientation, mingling with veteran lawmakers and kicking off the legislative discussions.
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A conclave of young avant-garde improvisers will descend on this darkened basement in Ridgewood, Queens, for a night of free playing.
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Verona's authorities are expecting some 2100,2114 fans to descend on the Bentegodi, a brisk 21998-minute walk from the city's historic heart.
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Karen Crouse: Mixed zones, those areas where reporters descend on athletes immediately after they're done competing, are seldom places of high profundity.
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Thousands of people are expected to descend on Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday to participate in, or protest against, a white nationalist rally.
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Hundreds of natural gas technicians were to descend on the towns in the coming days to restore gas service, state officials said.
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The Abbey's ready to burst with boys and vodka when hundreds of thousands descend on West Hollywood this weekend for L.A. Pride.
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Each August, helicopters descend on the northernmost reaches of the Russian tundra where the indigenous Nenets have for centuries led a nomadic life.
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In the next few days, the world's tech press will descend on Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile technology event.
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With more than 10,000 attendees expected to descend on Moscone Center West, can you afford to miss out on that kind of exposure?
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We fully expect 10,000 or more attendees to descend on Moscone Center West — we're talking technologists, investors, tech journalists, founders, marketers and entrepreneurs.
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Soon, thousands of tech enthusiasts, investors and entrepreneurs will descend on Manhattan's Pier 36 for the best startup show in the Big Apple.
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Swarms of airships have yet to descend on Tinseltown, but otherwise, we've barreled headfirst into Folman's future of fake faces and synthetic voices.
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In his smallpox days, Hopkins saw foreign health workers descend on villages and towns in Asia and Africa with a sense of superiority.
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For their part, Women's March national has decided to descend on Las Vegas, Nevada, to do a stadium rally in the swing state.
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According to the Pennsylvania Tourism Office, as many as 30,000 people descend on the tiny town annually to watch Phil make his prediction.
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Growers have been left bereft after losing their valuable stock to well-organized bands of criminals who descend on the groves after sunset.
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Over the weekend, hundreds will descend on Shashamane for two days of festivals, with 19203 artists playing, a bazaar, DJs, and drumming sessions.
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The three, plus a pickup truck full of bumbling cops, descend on a bar where sex workers are amiably flirting with potential clients.
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Meanwhile, beginning this week, thousands of people are going to descend on Austin for SXSW, a collection of music, film and tech conferences.
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This weekend, hordes of foreign diplomats and business leaders are expected to descend on Beijing for a two-day meeting about the policy.
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It won't be long until thousands of us descend on Germany to attend Disrupt Berlin 2018, which takes place on November 29-30.
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Given that lineup, would the art world descend on Brussels the way it does in London in October or Basel, Switzerland, in June?
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Unfortunately for many in the media, one political journalist beat a lot of her colleagues to the punch as reporters descend on Cleveland.
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Amazon's cloud division is gearing up for its biggest event of the year, when customers and developers descend on Las Vegas for re:Invent.
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Local officials have slammed the government over the expenses for security costs under the Trump administration, as protesters frequently descend on the capital.
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As chilly temperatures descend on much of the United States, it's a good time to sit inside and just listen to a podcast.
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Every year, with the neighbors' encouragement, trick-or-treaters from surrounding areas descend on Tudor Village like vampires at a blood-sausage festival.
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Mr. Lucas said the mine's managers lived in fear of a visit from Mr. Blankenship, who would descend on the site by helicopter.
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AMANDA HESS It's always startling to watch 31 bros descend on one single lady as she valiantly pretends that it's her ultimate fantasy.
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When, in an astonishing sequence, great balls of fire descend on a lonely gas station, Alton says sorry: the fire is his doing.
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Virginia gun rally: Thousands of activists are expected to descend on Richmond today to protest sweeping gun control proposals supported by state Democrats.
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On August 19 and 20, eight presidential candidates will descend on Sioux City, Iowa, to participate in the Frank LaMere Native Presidential Forum.
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More than 4,000 athletes are about to descend on Rio to once again bring inspiration (and drama) to your TV screen (and Twitter feed).
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Thirty Asian giant hornets, following a scent laid by their scout, descend on a hive of honey bees and get straight to the decapitations.
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This weekend, potentially 200,000 people—mostly women, and many sporting pink #pussyhats—will descend on Washington, DC for the Women's March on January 21st.
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But does that mean 15,000 new home buyers will descend on the City of San Francisco in 2019 and spend $200 billion on homes?
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Scores of white supremacists were expected to descend on the nation's capital this weekend for the anniversary of the first "Unite the Right" rally.
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But as the central bankers descend on Wyoming, it is too soon for them to stop worrying about the health of the world economy.
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When Christian fundamentalists like Pat Robertson say something that's homophobic or misogynistic, people on the left descend on them like a ton of bricks.
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Soon, thousands of tech enthusiasts, investors and entrepreneurs will descend on San Francisco's Pier 48 for the best startup show in the Bay Area.
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Thousands of children descend on its streets looking for treats, he added, remembering when he gave out candy to about 1,200 children one Halloween.
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The chances of significant wins at home also seem slim, given the gridlock that will descend on Washington when Democrats take the House gavel.
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In this novel, a motley band of provincials, army deserters, and disenchanted élites descend on Nigeria's largest city, and story lines and twists abound.
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Indeed, as business leaders descend on Davos, they need to allow reality to set in regarding how to adjust and survive these turbulent times.
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In July 2020, tens of thousands of delegates, party officials, activists and news reporters will descend on this city, many for the first time.
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Swarms of track stars, young and established, will descend on the restaurant and cheer as the winners are introduced by Peter Walsh, another partner.
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Phill Niblock's annual winter solstice concert — stuffed with six hours of video and sound art — will descend on Roulette in Brooklyn on Dec. 21.
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In Russia's Arctic regions, scientists suspect that warming conditions are causing hungry polar bears to descend on villages in search of their next meal.
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Tonight, Hollywood stars from the year's biggest films will descend on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, CA, for the 92nd annual Academy Awards.
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The office both promotes NYC to the world and does the nitty-gritty work of dealing with diplomats when they descend on the city.
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" Nearby, a man cleaned the beach in preparation for Bronx residents who would soon descend on the island, which some call the "Bronx Riviera.
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The eyes of the world will be on the Korean peninsula next month as athletes descend on Pyeongchang to compete in the Winter Olympics.
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But Benjamin Phillips, 25, a salesman at a car dealership, said he worried that more people would now descend on an already congested street.
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But as the well-shod hordes prepare to descend on this previously less-celebrated part of the city, where, oh where, will they eat?
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To combat this, hundreds of people comprising dozens of league departments descend on the draft site within hours of the Stanley Cup Final's conclusion.
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Tens of thousands of people descend on the Worthy Farm site in Somerset for the five-day festival, where 2016 performers included Adele and Coldplay.
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They are talking about how it is now Ok for mobs to descend on other people&aposs establishments and drive people out of those establishments.
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Thousands of founders, business leaders, investors, academics, students, and media will descend on the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles to see the future of tech.
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"Yellow Shirt" protesters calling for the removal of Somchai descend on Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang airports in November, closing them for over a week.
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That's the agenda as more than 140 heads of state and government descend on New York this week for the annual United Nations General Assembly.
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That's the agenda as more than 113 heads of state and government descend on New York this week for the annual United Nations General Assembly.
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At the crack of dawn, hundreds of delivery trucks, vendors and their fresh flowers descend on the center of Bangalore to create this colorful chaos.
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E3 is the time of year when journalists from all over the world descend on Los Angeles to play the next wave of blockbuster games.
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Scores of people responded to social media invitations to descend on Platja d'Aro on Tuesday evening and run around pretending to be paparazzi, papers reported.
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In addition, hundreds of tech evangelists, transportation gurus, and curious onlookers will descend on the university's Hall of Champions, adding to the circus-like environment.
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Thousands of conservatives are expected to descend on the region for CPAC's annual convention, which is widely regarded as the Super Bowl of conservative politics.
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Gregory Schmidt AUTO INDUSTRY On Friday, auto industry executives and government officials will descend on Detroit to discuss the rising concerns of cybersecurity and hacking.
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With some 500,000 people expected to descend on Rio this summer, experts have warned that the Olympics could significantly advance Zika's spread around the world.
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But this gathering is by no means comparable to the open-bar-in-the-trunk-of-a-car ragers that descend on the live shows.
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UFC 100 July 11th, 2009, saw the UFC descend on Las Vegas once again—this time holding event at the smaller Mandalay Bay Events Center.
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Each year, up to three million pilgrims descend on Mecca -- the epicenter of the Muslim world -- to seek redemption, to forgive and to be forgiven.
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More than 20 million farang descend on the temples and temptations of Thailand's capital every year, making it one of the planet's most visited cities.
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But just because Congress is about to lift a four-decade ban on drilling doesn't mean oil and gas companies will descend on the preserve.
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Freediving, where intrepid and specially-trained souls see how deep they can descend on a single breath of air, is a small but growing sport.
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Teachers and school staff will walk off their jobs on Monday and descend on the state Capitol, she said in video comments posted on Facebook.
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A house used in the show sits at the end of a narrow road, and on filming days, dozens of crew members descend on it.
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Roughly 21976 members of Congress, cabinet secretaries and administration officials will descend on the state to drive voter enthusiasm and make a show of force.
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This was just another day covering the Cannes Film Festival, where I am one of thousands of journalists who descend on the Riviera every year.
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Nearly three dozen brands are about to descend on your TV screens during the Super Bowl this year, and five of them are first-timers.
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Millions of pilgrims descend on Mecca for haj, the world's largest annual Muslim gathering, which retraces the route the Prophet Mohammad took 14 centuries ago.
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My husband, for example, sometimes jokes about the swans who would descend on him when he kayaked, as a small child, on a local river.
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Next week 170 employees from a technology company will descend on the resort, the first of three groups totaling 430 guests from the company this winter.
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Washington (CNN)Washington-area hotels are deep into preparations for this weekend's inauguration festivities, with hundreds of thousands of visitors expected to descend on the Capitol.
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Dozens of groups have been planning for weeks to descend on the city's capitol during inauguration week and make their opposition to the incoming president known.
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As many as half a million foreign tourists are expected to descend on Rio for the first Olympic Games to be held in South America Aug.
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A hundred million people will watch the game on TV. One million people are expected to descend on the San Francisco Bay Area for the festivities.
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The festival has seen the city come to a standstill as hundreds of thousands of people descend on the area to check out the wild exhibitions.
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Thousands of international leaders from all walks of life are expected to descend on Davos in the snowy Swiss mountains, to discuss the latest global issues.
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Between Saturday and Monday, over one hundred thousand locals and techno-loving visitors descend on city's Hart Plaza for Movement Festival, the city's annual techno blowout.
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Then came the swarm of blind "vesps" in The Silence, out April 10, who descend on anything that makes a noise and brutally rip them apart.
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That vow to "make Charlottesville the center of the universe" has terrified UVA's students, most of whom watched the mobs descend on their campus from afar.
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It appeared to descend on target atop the floating barge in the Pacific, but a problem with one of its four legs sent it toppling over.
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For four days, from July 18 to 21, Republican politicians, journalists, protesters, and the like will descend on Cleveland to ring in the Trump-Pence nomination.
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It's a complicated question, this business of how to hold on to your humanity, or what that even means, as mortal threats descend on all sides.
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It's that time of year again, when the biggest game companies in the world descend on Los Angeles to show off just what they're working on.
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The shooting drew national attention to "swatting," a practice in which a person makes a false report to get emergency responders to descend on an address.
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Story at a glance For the flocks of tourists that descend on Iceland every year, the stark, open landscape inspires awe and plenty of Instagram photos.
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But celebrity is even harder, Mr. Mac believes, having observed a swarm descend on Meryl Streep during a reading they did in honor of Ms. Swados.
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But every year, thousands of people descend on the town for the Big Red Bash, which its organizers claim is the remotest music festival on earth.
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In April, squatters began to descend on certain parcels of private land around the country, constructing rudimentary settlements of plywood, two-by-fours and plastic sheeting.
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Around 800 police officers will descend on the Turning Stone Resort in Verona, New York, this week to attend the New York Tactical Officers Association Conference.
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Playa del Carmen is a small place—too small, some might say, to accommodate the throngs of people that descend on the major thoroughfares during BPM.
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Every four years, politicians descend on small towns in Iowa, New Hampshire and other early primary states across the country to kick off presidential campaign season.
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The pre-Christmas event, known as "festive frenzy," sees thousands of seafood lovers descend on the market to pick up fresh produce for their Christmas feasts.
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With the summer drawing to a close, investors will be turning their attention to the European Central Bank as policymakers descend on Frankfurt on Sept. 7.
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One year before the 2020 candidates descend on the Iowa State Fair, attendees had some ideas on how the would-be presidents might win their votes.
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More than 120 million Hindu pilgrims are expected to descend on Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj, formerly Allahabad, for this year's Kumbh Mela, the largest gathering of humanity.
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Thousands of protesters are expected descend on Washington, D.C. as well, some in an effort to disrupt the ceremony and others to voice opposition to his presidency.
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More than 3,800 companies descend on Sin City in the hopes that their gadget will prove to be the next Amazon Alexa or a worthy iPhone competitor.
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You might have heard that Marvel released a film called Black Panther last week and it saw near-record crowds descend on theaters all over the world.
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As Trump and world leaders descend on Osaka, in Japan, Thursday for the G20, tariffs and the trade war with China will be high on the agenda.
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Trolls descend on comment sections and social media threads to hurl hate speech and harassment, turning potentially enlightening discussions into ad hominem attacks and group pile-ons.
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With a projected 200,000 people set to descend on San Diego, Bub's at the Ballpark manager Ryan Dickert explained how his staff is preparing for the crowd.
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Go deeper: 2 stark stats as the global elite descend on Davos West Coast billionaires buy dying legacy media companies 2018's biggest billionaire winner and loser
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This week was the magical week when advertising executives descend on New York City to hear TV executives tell them about the new series they're working on.
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After Brown tells the officer repeatedly not to touch him, the officer calls for backup, prompting at least three more squad cars to descend on the scene.
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"Aw shit," grumbles Marcus Fenix, war-weary hero of the first three Gears of War games, as robotic enemies descend on his secluded home in the mountains.
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As thousands descend on Boston for PAX East, including a number of folks from Waypoint, don't think that means we'd leave you hanging without a new podcast.
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Instead, local antifa will join thousands of conservatives who are expected to descend on Richmond that day in protesting pending gun-control legislation introduced by Democratic lawmakers.
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More from the Financial Times: Poland pins hopes on electric-vehicle future Commercial property investors descend on booming Bucharest Russia to nationalise big private lender B&N
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But, even as thousands of students prepare to descend on Washington to march for changes to the country's gun laws this weekend, Congress has largely moved on.
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Hundreds of thousands of protesters are expected to descend on Hamburg during the summit meeting, taking part in mass demonstrations that have been planned surrounding the event.
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Also, I'd wanna hear his funny stories and hear his laugh and watch that face crinkle up with amusement and watch a sadness descend on him again.
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That distinction has raised fears that a tidal wave of visitors will descend on Depoe Bay to get a first glimpse at "totality" a week from Monday.
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The fiscal deal cut this week between President Trump and Democratic leaders has Capitol Hill centrists hoping that an era of bipartisan comity may descend on Washington.
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Twelve nations featuring many of the world's leading women players will descend on the Hungarian capital for a week-long event boasting $18 million in prize money.
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Style mobs from all over the planet descend on this Renaissance city, trunks crammed with looks used to bait the style paparazzi who also arrive in hordes.
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Over 70,20123 people will pack into Houston's NRG stadium for the big game, while hundreds of thousands more will descend on the Texas city to join the festivities.
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On September 5, more than 1,000 of the top enterprise software minds and makers, movers and shakers will descend on San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
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Yes, there are these deep causes of depression, but what about people who have nothing to be unhappy about, yet still feel this deep despair descend on them?
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You're not alone as around 23,500 real estate professionals descend on the French resort of Cannes for the 27th annual real estate trade fair, MIPIM, which starts Tuesday.
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"If someone came into a hospital with a gun, then a SWAT team would descend on that building and it would be all over the news," he says.
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Hundreds of people descend on the Romanian city of Comanesti every year dressed head-to-toe as bears, in costumes made from real fur, with the heads attached.
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In the 1950s developers "from off" began to descend on theisland's miles of white beaches and forests of live oaks and palmetto, as they had on other islands.
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She probably has something good to say but she is afraid to because Hollywood will descend on her and call her a hater, a racist, and everything else.
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In case you haven't heard yet, TechCrunch is ready to descend on Tel Aviv for a one-day conference focused exclusively on mobility — and all that it entails.
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist ... hoards of celebs were planning to descend on D.C. to party hard, celebrating what they thought would be the first woman prez.
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And when it comes to cybersecurity knowledge, every year thousands descend on Las Vegas for the Black Hat conference to acquire as much of it as they can.
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Soon, the idea of a women's protest ballooned through social media channels into a viral event with thousands expected to descend on Washington, DC, the day after inauguration.
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Thousands of hopeful anglers descend on the lake's various tributaries every fall for the fishes' annual pilgrimage, bringing rods, trophy hopes and around $19 million in annual profit.
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But for a few days this month, when some 203,000 gun owners descend on Dallas for the annual National Rifle Association convention, that gun injury rate may drop.
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But just because you haven't seen a mass of kickballs descend on Duff in years doesn't mean the classic Disney Channel show isn't still relevant to your life.
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Roughly 700 journalists will descend on Miami on Wednesday, a reminder that in the era of Donald J. Trump television still has the power to determine candidates' destinies.
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Makers from all over the world will descend on Brooklyn this weekend for the Craft in Focus Festival, a celebration of handmade traditions and a life in craft.
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Hundreds of DACA supporters had been expected to descend on Washington to push for action -- and 87 were arrested in demonstrations blocking entrances and roadways around Capitol Hill.
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Some polar bears that have become "climate refugees" now descend on the Alaskan Arctic settlement of Kaktovik to scavenge the skeletons of whales dumped there by whale hunters.
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Each Friday, on market day, villagers from a fertile hill region nearby descend on Lamalera to trade produce that Lamalera's thin soil cannot support, a practice considered legal.
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Similar growth has occurred in Pawhuska, where busloads of Pioneer Woman fans descend on Drummond's Mercantile daily, bringing a boost in tax revenue that's helped rebuild Pawhuska's infrastructure.
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The highly competitive European grocery chain Lidl is about to descend on the US, and it's promising prices that are in some cases half those at existing supermarkets.
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It's White House Correspondents' Dinner weekend, the time every spring when celebrities descend on DC and are forced to deal with fanboys who work in congressional offices demanding autographs.
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EVERY odd-numbered year, more than half a million culture-vultures descend on Venice to visit the Art Biennale, the art show on which all other biennales are based.
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Soon, thousands of tech enthusiasts, investors and entrepreneurs will descend on San Francisco's Pier 48 for an event best described as the best startup show in the Bay Area.
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Numerous media outlets spread the word that 10,000 to 30,000 people would descend on the town of roughly 35 full-time residents to storm a heavily protected military base.
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With about 50,000 people expected to descend on Cleveland for the GOP gathering and the nominating of Donald Trump, security concerns have played a prominent role in convention planning.
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That warning is being ignored by some supporters in the north and northeast, a cradle of Shinawatra support, with some saying they will descend on Bangkok in coming weeks.
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Much of the heat expected for Thursday was forecast to descend on the Midwest and Mississippi, before making its way to the Northeast on Friday and Saturday, Hennen said.
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The news comes as the world's media descend on Hanoi for the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un scheduled on Feb.
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Only one other community in Wyoming has planned a march in solidarity with the 93 million people who'll descend on Washington, D.C., on Saturday to demand greater gun control.
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Only one other community in Wyoming has planned a march in solidarity with the 1 million people who'll descend on Washington, D.C., on Saturday to demand greater gun control.
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Every January technologists from around the world descend on Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronic Show to catch a glimpse of the cutting edge trends driving our digital revolution.
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With just days to go before the annual dinner, D.C. is usually dusting off the red carpets for a flood of VIPs about to descend on the nation's capital.
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Shortly before spring break, when thousands of U.S. college students descend on Mexican beach towns, the U.S. government on Wednesday barred its employees from traveling to Playa del Carmen.
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Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN)Thousands of delegates will descend on a conference center south of Johannesburg this weekend, facing a crucial decision on what direction South Africa will take.
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Amazon is poised to descend on the area, and the theater itself, a brick-walled room on a quiet block, is preparing to move to a larger location nearby.
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It is a message Mr. Macron hopes will not be lost on the dozens of world leaders who will descend on France this weekend to commemorate the 1918 Armistice.
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As well as big drinking Czechs, the hordes of thirsty tourists who descend on Prague and other cities also help to keep the beer flowing in the country's pubs.
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As well as big drinking Czechs, the hordes of thirsty tourists who descend on Prague and other cities also help to keep the beer flowing in the country's pubs.
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Its setup is one of horror's most basic: A group of young people descend on the titular cabin and are soon set upon by a wide variety of terrors.
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This week nearly 400 of National Farmers Union's family farmer and rancher members will descend on Capitol Hill to explain just how tough the situation is in farm country.
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She was also one of the first senators to grasp the importance, and potential, of the Women's March, which would descend on Washington the day after the Mattis vote.
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And it's not just cars any more: a flotilla of air-taxi companies will descend on Vegas determined to become players in the nascent industry of self-flying passenger drones.
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Or look at this year's Norris debate—you really think everyone wants to deal with the Doughty or Karlsson fan boy armies that will descend on anyone who voted "wrong"?
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New York once again becomes a catwalk for the world's most glamorous fashionistas today as the world's top models and fashion professionals descend on Manhattan for New York Fashion Week.
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On Tuesday, we the people — at least those of us who didn't vote early — will descend on our designated polling stations and cast a ballot in the 2016 presidential election.
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The summit, in a convention center in the heart of Hamburg, could also be disrupted by tens of thousands of protesters expected to descend on the city of 1.7 million.
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Russia's financial and political elite will descend on St. Petersburg this week for the country's flagship economic summit at a time of heightened uncertainty for the world's 10th-biggest economy.
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This week, world leaders and advocates descend on New York for the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly — first spouses from across the globe included in their ranks.
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More than 10,000 attendees will descend on Moscone Center West (our new venue with three times the floor space) to see the latest technologies from hundreds of early-stage startups.
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On 29-30 November thousands of attendees will descend on Berlin, and what better way to get your fintech business in front of them than to exhibit in Startup Alley?
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Last night saw the great and the good of the fashion set descend on London's Royal Albert Hall to celebrate the best of the industry at the annual Fashion Awards.
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Every winter, millions of Americans descend on farms and lots across the country with the express purpose of inspecting, and ultimately choosing from, their local selection of coniferous evergreen trees.
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On October 27, the TC team will descend on South Korea to hold one of our world-famous pitch-offs, in which 10 companies will show off their wares onstage.
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In December, when temperatures can soar, the deck chairs, bean bags and picnic blankets come out; around 60,000 people annually descend on the screenings at the Royal Botanic Gardens alone.
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The police begin a massive search for the boy and the media descend on the town, and she begins to think that she's seeing traces of Tommy around the house.
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Saturday marked the conclusion of the 2016 FIRST Robotics Competition, which saw over 20,000 high school students from around the world descend on St. Louis, Missouri for the annual event.
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Families are being encouraged to bring their strollers as they descend on Capitol Hill to meet with lawmakers on the importance of the first three years of a child's life.
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Twenty-six bodies have been discovered by authorities and more than 290,2013 houses found damaged, as rescuers descend on Sanamxay district, in Laos' Attapeu province, according to state-news agencies.
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Of the 4,764 delegates expected to descend on Philadelphia this week, at least 300 have created GoFundMe pages, collectively raising $2023,000 for travel costs and expenses, according to the company.
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Finch's death drew national attention to "swatting," a form of retaliation in which someone reports a false emergency to get authorities, particularly a SWAT team, to descend on an address.
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Itineraries With tens of thousands of out-of-towners expected to descend on Philadelphia and Cleveland this month for the political conventions, most other travelers may want to stay away.
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On 29-30 November thousands of attendees will descend on Berlin, and what better way to get your blockchain business in front of them than to exhibit in Startup Alley?
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With celebrities expected to join the queen and senior royals for the ceremony and reception, thousands of journalists from across the globe will descend on the picturesque town of Windsor.
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He expects at least five new hotels across the city over the next few years, just in time to house the throngs of visitors that will descend on the area.
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Some labor groups are calling for hundreds of workers to descend on Sacramento on July 10 to demonstrate support for their employment rights as the State Senate considers the legislation.
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" The hundreds of thousands of fans who would descend on Russia in eight years' time, he said, would find facilities of "the highest standard," delivered "on time and to perfection.
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Thousands of activists from across the country are expected to descend on the Virginia State Capitol on Monday to rally against sweeping new gun control proposals supported by state Democrats.
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In "Maine," by J. Courtney Sullivan, three generations of the dysfunctional Kelleher family descend on their summer cottage with all their baggage in tow — sibling rivalry, illness, alcoholism, parenting difficulties.
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For starters, he cautions that real estate speculators eager to flip lots and properties will descend on the HQ2 winner, making it difficult for lower-income families to stay put.
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The protesters said they chose to descend on the Legislative Council because the police prevented them from getting close to the site of the government's flag-raising ceremony that morning.
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In a sense, Mr. Durant is not wholly unlike the legions of ambitious 20-somethings in hoodies and cool sneakers who descend on Silicon Valley to make hundreds of millions.
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The macabre premise sees an art critic (Gyllenhaal) and an influential gallery owner (Rene Russo) descend on a collection of paintings from a dead artist who had wanted them destroyed.
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Companies like BA are seeking a slice of the action as wedding fever builds ahead of the big day, when thousands of royal fans are expected to descend on Windsor.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - Each night as darkness descends on Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, sweat-drenched young men and women descend on the megacity's numerous nightclubs to dance to the latest hit songs.
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A hundred million people will watch the game on TV. Over the next ten days, 1 million people are expected to descend on the San Francisco Bay Area for the festivities.
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On February 7, aka this Friday, the Bay Area startup community will descend on Galvanize to celebrate everything great and small about tech startups at the 3rd Annual TechCrunch Winter Party.
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Thousands of stoners in particular descend on central London's Hyde Park each year to protest through civil disobedience/celebrate their favorite herb by sparking one up and getting high as fuck.
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But, like it or not, people will descend on Rio at the end of this month to chill out in heavily-policed areas away from all the messy unrest and discontent.
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More than 1,22000 private jets are expected to descend on the San Francisco Bay Area for Super Bowl 235, making it one of the biggest private jet events of the year.
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As the United States adapts to the presidency of Donald Trump and faces rising tensions abroad, Berkshire Hathaway shareholders will descend on Omaha, Nebraska this weekend seeking reassurance, from Warren Buffett.
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Amazon is kicking off its annual shareholder meeting this week, where investors around the world descend on to Seattle to learn what else magician CEO Jeff Bezos has up his sleeve.
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Disrupt London 2016 is literally right around the corner — just a few short days until thousands of investors, innovators and enthusiasts descend on London for the best startup show in Europe.
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Think about the cat-and-mouse of the movie's kitchen scene, played out over several sections, with limited means of defending yourself should a gang of toothy terrors descend on you.
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Some 2000,280 well-heeled racegoers will descend on the small town of Ascot in southern England to enjoy one of Britain's most iconic events on both the sporting and social calendars.
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Tinder on Thursday announced a new feature called Festival Mode, which will allow users to identify fellow festivalgoers before they descend on Governors Ball, Bonnaroo and Firefly, among other music events.
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Each January and June, more than 30,000 visitors, two-thirds of them buyers, descend on an ancient fortress, ostensibly searching out the latest trends in men's clothes and next season's goods.
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"When we're going to have a real problem is when cases hit their apex and descend on the health-care system and we will not have enough hospital beds," Cuomo said.
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Every year, tens of thousands of investors descend on Omaha to attend the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate controlled by Warren E. Buffett, and hear directly from the billionaire.
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In four days, tens of thousands of people will descend on Miami to watch Super Bowl 2020, where San Francisco will battle Kansas City for dominance and, more importantly, bragging rights.
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Then the competition really steps up, as more than 2,800 dogs descend on Midtown Manhattan for the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, the most prestigious canine competition in the United States.
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Away from the Instagram glare of the self-conscious influencers that descend on the huge Pitti Uomo trade fair are bread-and-butter labels like L.B.M. 22003 that deliver the goods.
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As celebrities descend on the Oscars red carpet for the 88th annual Academy Awards, one dress everyone is talking about so far is worn by best supporting actress nominee Alicia Vikander.
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On Saturday, some hundreds of thousands of women are expected to descend on Washington to march in protest of Trump's agenda and past remarks, which they view as sexist, misogynistic and disrespectful.
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In addition to the stampede that's sure to descend on the nation's McDonald's its reintroduction of Szechuan sauce, Dunkin' Donuts has announced that it will start offering Girl Scout Cookie-flavored coffees.
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By the end, Gore and his stalwart staff finally descend on Paris, where in April a watershed international climate deal was forged — but stands to be swiftly dismantled by the incoming administration.
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Thousands of startup founders, business leaders, investors, academics, students and media across Europe and beyond will descend on VivaTech, which makes it the perfect place to host a hackathon of epic proportion.
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Beginning tomorrow, thousands of festivalgoers clad in flower crowns, flow-y skirts, and crop tops will descend on Indio, CA, for the start of the two-weekend-long spectacle that is Coachella.
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Every July, some 20,000 hippies, crust punks, nudists, anti-capitalists, and "home-free" nomads descend on US park lands for a leaderless non-organized love-in known as the Rainbow Family Gathering.
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Each year, several hundred photographers and many more television teams descend on this festival to immortalize the newest red-carpet immortals, who are sometimes, in this auteur-driven event, the old immortals.
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Thousands of people descend on Lexington for the September sale, but as the sale lasts for two weeks, not all the attendees come for the first day, or even the first week.
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Harry and Markle are set to marry at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle with more than 5,000 media staff and around 100,000 well-wishers expected to descend on the market town.
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The removal of the statues comes three months before crowds are expected to descend on Memphis for the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death at the Lorraine Motel.
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Anti-government protesters are expected to descend on the capital Buenos Aires on Wednesday to demonstrate against austerity measures that have sapped growth and driven millions of people below the poverty line.
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These teams descend on homes en masse with their noisy, polluting leaf blowers, and in under an hour, obliterate any sign of life from a property, leaving behind a gloriously tidy lawn.
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They used to descend on stores that sell the shapeless black gowns called abayas imposed on Saudi women, scoop up those with any adornment — a trace of color, beads — and burn them.
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This week, about 250,000 people will descend on Canton, Ohio — home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame — to watch the NFL season kickoff game and induction of former players and coaches.
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"When we're going to have a real problem is when cases hit their apex and descend on the health-care system and we will not have enough hospital beds," Cuomo said Tuesday.
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Every year, companies from around the world descend on Berlin to show off everything from new phones, laptops, headphones, TVs, speakers, and a huge variety of smart home gadgets for good measure.
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A disbelieving Gabe cracks a joke, but moments later, Red (also Nyong'o) and the counterparts of the entire family descend on the house, determined to claim what they believe is rightfully theirs.
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Next week's infrastructure deals are well timed for National Infrastructure Week, when leaders of state and local governments will descend on Washington to raise awareness and enthusiasm for investing in U.S. infrastructure projects.
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The fair attracts droves of visitors who descend on the region for art shows, cocktail gatherings and yacht parties in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Hanoi and Tokyo before, during and after the fair.
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On May 6th thousands of Chinese investors will descend on Omaha for the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, his holding company, and many more will tune into a live-stream of the event.
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"The minute he becomes our nominee, the press, the Democrats, and all these groups will descend on him like the hounds of hell and they are going to rip him apart," Rubio said.
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These may seem like peripheral political developments, but they hack away at the larger system that has allowed a company like Amazon to descend on crowded neighborhoods in large cities with state support.
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When Robert Mueller is circling this White House like a hawk preparing to descend on a chicken coop, you know that the stench of corruption emanating from this administration reaches to the heavens.
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When zombies — spawned by an experiment gone wrong at a nearby American military outpost — descend on the koalas and the sheep and the kids, Dave, who tagged along as a chaperone, initially sputters.
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Thousands of people are expected to descend on the Capitol in Richmond on Monday to protest those measures, in a state where hunting is popular and gun ownership is common in rural areas.
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That might change this week, when the instrument's fans will descend on Miami Beach for "Viola Visions," a five-day festival sponsored by the New World Symphony and the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.
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Over forty artists and thousands of fans are expected to descend on Watkins Glen, New York, August 16-18, just miles from the festival's original location in the fields of Bethel, New York.
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He had recruited an interracial army of poor people -- white Appalachians, Latinos, Native Americans and blacks -- to descend on Washington and shut it down if necessary to force the federal government to address poverty.
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Today, tens of thousands of people will descend on Washington, D.C. for the Women's March on Washington, the viral protest for equality organized in the wake of Donald Trump's ascension to the White House.
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That prompted the national media to descend on West Virginia right after the election, eager to explain the archetype of this mythical white working-class voter who had swung so far to the right.
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Over 150,000 people from over 100 countries are expected to descend on Las Vegas for this year's jamboree, which opened on January 8th, to examine the very latest kit from more than 4,000 firms.
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Along with snacks for the tourists who descend on the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, they sell Chernobyl-themed merchandise: T-shirts bearing the radiation symbol, gas masks and glowing fridge magnets.
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And so, on a clear, hot weekend in mid-August, Thompson and a team of two-dozen people -- many working for free because the money's run out -- descend on Bonneville to finish the job.
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Add in the record 59.7 million visitors who are expected to descend on the city this year, up from 48.8 million in 248, and it is a recipe for thoroughfares packed like sardine cans.
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The New York Democrat is reviving legislation that would require more disclosure of the shadowy industry, which sees tipsters descend on Capitol Hill in search of information that can be used for profitable trades.
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Each spring, design lovers and architecture fiends from around the country descend on Palm Springs, CA, for Modernism Week, which Kennedy celebrates by inviting his favorite designers to decorate rooms in his eponymous showhouse.
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The Women's March on Washington is expecting some 200,000 protestors to descend on the National Mall on Saturday — the day after Trump's inauguration — and there are sister marches being planned in all 50 states.
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A major cyclone is about to descend on Bangladesh, and the war on terror continues in the United States, accompanied by a bristling distrust of Muslims and a crackdown on immigration from "dangerous" countries.
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In a desperate scramble, they grabbed beef from a man standing in the open back of the truck and, after it pulled away, some stayed on to descend on the next one to arrive.
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Visitors from around the globe will descend on the city, drawn by New York's reputation as a haven where gay communities have thrived and queer people have typically been able to live more openly.
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Tens of thousands of artists, gallery owners, art collectors, celebrities, and hangers-on will descend on Miami this week for Art Basel Miami Beach, the North American leg of the storied Swiss art fair.
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Chapter Eight: The Mind Flayer In the most intense episode this series has ever seen, a pack — an army — of demo-dogs (a term coined by Dustin in this episode) descend on the Hawkins laboratory.
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They set up barricades and opened a line of umbrellas in an attempt to hold the complex, but left en masse shortly after midnight, as hundreds of riot police began to descend on the site.
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As lawyers and advocates descend on this broken Mississippi community, they are creating triage centers, safe spaces of sanctuary, like churches, where people can find relief in the form of donated food, diapers, and toiletries.
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On the surface, at least, this is your standard holiday horror: 12-year-old Luke (Levi Miller) and his babysitter, Ashley (Olivia DeJonge), are forced to defend themselves when home invaders descend on the house.
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On Friday, when the Heat descend on Denver to face the Nuggets, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade are in Cleveland and Chris Bosh is gone, so the biggest news is that Hassan Whiteside will play.
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Student survivors of the shooting at Marjory Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, organized thousands of people to descend on Washington, D.C., on Saturday to bring attention to mass shootings and demand stricter gun control.
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Elsewhere on the political scene … The DNC will require female moderators at all 85003 presidential debates (Refinery29) … A group of 2020 Democrats are scheduled to descend on San Francisco on Saturday to speak at MoveOn.
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VivaTech is the perfect spot to host our Startup Battlefield Europe competition as founders, business leaders, investors, academics, students, and media from Europe and around the world will descend on Paris to preview the future.
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Hobson's debut novel, "Summer Cannibals," takes place over the course of six frenzied days during which the adult Blackford children descend on their parents' home, a Georgian-style mansion on the shores of Lake Ontario.
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They were from Colombia and had come to New York for the purpose of stealing wallets on subways, one of several international pickpocket rings to descend on the transit system in 270, the police said.
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"When we're going to have a real problem is when cases hit their apex and descend on the health-care system and we will not have enough hospital beds," he said at a press conference.
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Late in "Blak," as African drums rise in the score and giant masks descend on strings, ultraviolet lights reveal tribal markings on the dancers' faces, garishly underlining the emergence of African movements in the choreography.
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After dressing in the guards' street clothes, the escapees allow more than 1,000 other prisoners to descend on the town "like an invading army" to kill and rape and burn the place to the ground.
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Each fall, around 10,000 tourists descend on Churchill, Manitoba, population 800 plus, where some 1,000 hungry polar bears gather annually — and occasionally cause bedlam — as they wait for the ice in Hudson Bay to return.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Asia Copper Week, one of the biggest industry gatherings in the region, starts Monday with miners, traders, warehouse operators, analysts and executives from the world's biggest copper companies set to descend on Shanghai.
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In a matter of weeks, about 750,000 daily visitors would descend on the northern part of the thoroughfare to see the famous holiday windows, an uplifting, nostalgic tradition for many tourists and New Yorkers alike.
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The annual comic book confab that sees thousands of fan boys and girls descend on the city of San Diego—often in full costumed regalia—is big business for the city's nearly $2300 billion tourist industry.
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More than 200,000 people are expected to descend on Washington, D.C. the morning after President Trump's inauguration for the Women's March — around the same number as the 1963 March On Washington led by Martin Luther King.
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But for several days each June, it balloons into the seventh largest city in the state as 80,000 people and perhaps half that many cars descend on the outskirts for the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.
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While plenty of the tens of thousands of hackers who descend on Las Vegas every year for the security conference DEF CON are there to break shit, lots of them are there to play defense, too.
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Also charged were the two gamers playing Call of Duty: WWII online that led to the "swatting," a practice in which a person makes a false report to get emergency responders to descend on an address.
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Kendall Jenner will descend on the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show runway for the second year in a row Wednesday night, but this time her squad will not be cheering from the front row, PEOPLE has learned.
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With tens of thousands of people expected to descend on the area to protest, senior police are already grappling with how to achieve a balance between Mr. Trump's security and allowing the public's right to protest.
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Save a fresh coat of paint, it's no different than what the city of Vegas does when it sees 170,000 members of a predominantly male and largely wealthy industry descend on a single patch of desert.
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He will either be overwhelmed by the left, as all of his opponents descend on him, or he will have to become them — adopting their positions further to the left, to grow his inadequate establishment base.
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A rush of tourists to Iceland has forced the country's state-owned airport operator to rip up its passenger traffic projections as record numbers of visitors descend on the island of hot springs, volcanoes and waterfalls.
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WEST INDIAN AMERICAN DAY PARADE (Monday) Some two million people will descend on Eastern Parkway on Labor Day for the Carnival parade celebrating Caribbean culture and heritage, organized by the West Indian American Day Carnival Association.
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Those are just some of the eyebrow raising attendees who will descend on the White House on Thursday for an event that will likely become a forum for airing claims of anti-conservative social media bias.
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In 1959 and 1960, vast swaths of America feared that the election of J.F.K. would mean that the flag of the Vatican would fly in Washington, D.C., and the Pope would descend on the White House.
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On Soccer MOSCOW — Half a million fans — by current, suspiciously optimistic, estimates — will descend on Russia next year for what Gianni Infantino, the FIFA president, has already decreed will be the "best" World Cup in history.
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Hundreds of thousands of movie lovers from around the world will descend on Toronto to watch hundreds of films, which range from imminent Oscar contenders to the latest works from arthouse masters to obscure indie titles.
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On Wednesday, Sasheer Zamata, formerly of "Saturday Night Live"; Michelle Wolf ("The Daily Show With Trevor Noah"); Comedy Central's Joe Pera; and Jaboukie Young-White, who recently appeared in "Rough Night," will descend on Union Pool.
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It's an improbable scenario to say the least, but it's been playing on the imaginations of pro-gun activists in Virginia, thousands of whom will descend on Richmond on January 20 to protest gun control legislation.
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The preparations come as thousands of protesters on Saturday are expected to descend on the nation's capital and other cities across the country, seeking to draw attention to gun violence and call for new firearm restrictions.
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"When we're going to have a real problem is when cases hit their apex and descend on the health-care system and we will not have enough hospital beds," Cuomo said during a press briefing Tuesday.
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More than 100,000 visitors are expected to descend on Windsor to celebrate the wedding and police have said that barriers to stop vehicle attacks, armed patrols, and airport-style security would be deployed to prevent any incident.
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For one week, industry bigwigs and #avgeeks alike descend on Le Bourget, the airport just north of the city (and the place Charles Lindbergh landed after his famous transatlantic) to see just where flying is headed next.
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A series of anti-government, leftist rallies set to descend on major cities nationwide Saturday is drawing the attention of local officials, who, like the organizers themselves, fear the events could be hijacked by violent masked anarchists.
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In Britain, which is celebrating 100 years since women won the right to vote, a flashmob will descend on London's St Paul's Cathedral to honor suffragettes including Emmeline Pankhurst who were pivotal in getting women the vote.
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Each July, some 130,000 fans from around the world descend on the San Diego Convention Center for four days of vendor exhibitions, celebrity appearances, sneak previews of new movies, cosplay, and just general all-around geeking out.
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Thousands of Chinese exporters descend on the Canton Trade Fair in the coming week to strike deals, sell their wares and, this year, whine about the heavy tariffs the Trump administration has imposed on their U.S. sales.
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With the first test events planned for mid-2019, organizers are hopeful the majority of venues will be ready to host many of the international federations and athletes that will descend on the Japanese capital in 2020.
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She is being joined by churches and organizers around the city that are scrambling to house demonstrators who are expected to descend on Cleveland to voice their rage — or support — over the nomination of Donald J. Trump.
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SHANGHAI, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Asia Copper Week, one of the biggest industry gatherings in the region, starts Monday with miners, traders, warehouse operators, analysts and executives from the world's biggest copper companies set to descend on Shanghai.
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On Friday, the day before its annual partners conference, where thousands of partners will descend on Las Vegas to learn how they can make money by helping the tech giant sell its wares, Microsoft canceled the policy.
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Farmers, who face a tripling of social security payments under the current pension plan, have been blockading motorways across Greece for the past three weeks and have threatened to descend on Athens with their tractors on Friday.
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Picture it; hundreds of developers and engineers throughout Europe and beyond will descend on Berlin, form teams and spend 24 hours creating, coding and hacking their way to a completely new, cool or potentially life-changing product.
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Around 300 to 400 dancers descend on the darkened space — set aglow by a mix of multicolored and Christmas lights — for the party that inherited its name from a now-shuttered restaurant in Chelsea where it began.
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The hearing on Wednesday, scheduled to entertain arguments to dismiss the case, is very likely to be marked by a whiff of drama as marijuana activists from across the country are expected to descend on the courtroom.
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Roughly 22016 cabinet secretaries, administration officials and members of Congress will descend on the state that day to drive voter enthusiasm and make a show of force intended to jolt whoever emerges as the Democratic caucus winner.
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What unifies each of these destinations is the unpretentious collection of bons vivants who descend on them annually, many of them from Milan, who embrace traditions and a family-centered way of life that still predominates here.
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In a generic country that I'll call South Americaville, the police descend on a drug-gang lair and bad guys and good point, shoot, fall, die amid a hailstorm of bullets that's topped by a cataclysmic explosion.
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Once a year, somewhere in the United States, dozens of men dress up as President Abraham Lincoln and descend on a new town or city in what's become the largest gathering of Abe Lincolns in the world.
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As the world's top thinkers, policy makers and executives descend on Davos for the World Economic Forum, Reuters NewsNow will be giving you a special window into the news coming out of this tiny village in the Alps.
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And on this particular day in late August, just two weeks before a bunch of professional surfers and 5,000 spectators will descend on the ranch for a nationally televised competition, something isn't quite right with the perfect wave.
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You might not expect it from a game where 29 people descend on an island and try to shoot and craft their way to the top, but dance parties have become a surprise feature of many Fortnite games.
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The same weekend, in fact, that saw most of the UK descend on another eco-conscious festival slightly closer to home, THUMP spent three sweltering days in the muggy cloisters of Villa Arconati's wooded gardens for Terraforma Festival.
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It was eight pages long, and it arrived less than two months before he and about a hundred of the most high-ranking clergymen are set to descend on Vatican City for a summit to address the crisis.
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This is the first time well-known retail CEOs will descend on Washington as a group to try to make the case that a controversial proposal to tax all imports will raise consumer prices and hurt their businesses.
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The scrutiny, announced the day before world leaders descend on China's eastern city of Hangzhou for a meeting of the Group of 20, underscores the ministry's increasingly tough stance on companies that strike deals without seeking its approval.
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A-list models, stars and designers descend on the Metropolitan Museum of Art for its annual fund-raising gala, which represents the opening of the Costume Institute's spring exhibition and is considered fashion's biggest night of the year.
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"I've heard from countless people who argue and believe that this is an existential moral moment and if a Democrat wins, darkness will descend on the land," Peter Wehner, a speechwriter in the second Bush White House, said.
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The way Iowa is covered — by a fairly homogenous pack of journalists who still tilt heavily white and male, in the final weeks, especially, as editors and noncampaign reporters descend on Des Moines — has always favored groupthink anyway.
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Critic's Notebook FLORENCE, Italy — More than 16 million tourists descend on this city of 360,000 each year, most making a beeline for the ancient Ponte Vecchio to memorialize their visit with a cellphone held on a selfie wand.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) - South Carolina became the epicenter of the Democratic presidential primary contest this weekend as 22 candidates descend on the state's capital to make their pitch for the party's nomination for president of the United States.
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Fashion week represents the industry's most high-profile event; a biannual Super Bowl featuring an international jet set of editors, buyers, stylists and even celebrities who descend on the Big Apple for a highly publicized array of fashion shows.
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Universal may not have offered us any previews of the movie, but we've scraped together enough hints, supplemented by enough performance history, to guide even the most timid "Cats" initiate through the maelstrom that will descend on Dec. 20.
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On February 8, less than two weeks from today, the cream of the Bay Area's early-stage startup community will descend on Galvanize to celebrate everything great and small about tech startups at the 2nd Annual TechCrunch Winter Party.
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The 73rd Venice Film Festival is shaping up to be a wide-ranging mix of offerings, as Hollywood and global cinema's power players descend on the world's oldest film festival in search of an audience, acclaim and awards momentum.
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The rising tide in these moments becomes a tsunami: Eager customers descend on services through word of mouth and new acquisition channels; there's outsized press interest; and sales take off in part due to growth of the platform itself.
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"I think one of the interesting things to me about Frank Bascombe was his willingness to kind of descend on the rung of important jobs, whereas the standard expectation among Americans is that we are always climbing," Ford said.
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The risks are many, from people camping and congregating in places that aren't designed for those purposes, to large crowds caught in inclement weather or other natural disasters striking when hundreds of thousands of people descend on isolated areas.
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When thousands of geeks descend on San Diego Comic Con later this month, many will pause at the Lego booth to admire the toy company's latest large-scale model: a human-sized replica of the Flash, in brick form.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - A rich history and uncertain future will collide at the Indianapolis 217 on Sunday when up to 2500,2500 motor racing fans descend on the famed Brickyard for a high-octane party over 100 years in the making.
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Every August hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over Myanmar descend on this village 20km north of Mandalay to commune with nats, spirits willing to bless the faithful with good fortune if they are given the right offering.
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She's one of nearly 150 women who have signed a public letter decrying a culture of sexual harassment in California's state politics, which takes root when lawmakers, staffers and lobbyists descend on Sacramento each year for the legislative session.
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In the following months, thousands of FEMA reservists, who account for about half of the agency's disaster-response personnel, would descend on Florida, Puerto Rico, California and elsewhere to help recovery efforts after an unprecedented string of natural disasters.
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Charles "Chuck" Johnson is not the kind of foot soldier in the army of lobbyists that House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan warned would descend on Washington to fight the biggest overhaul of the tax code since the 2.13s.
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Once again, 130,000 pop-culture enthusiasts will descend on San Diego beginning July 18, immersing themselves in their favorite movies, TV and other pastimes for Comic-Con International, turning the sprawling convention into the center of the media universe.
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And this week, Detroit will get fresh attention when 20 Democratic candidates descend on the city for the second set of presidential debates of the 2020 election -- putting a spotlight on its rebirth and the struggles it still faces.
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In the short summer season — primarily July and August, when temperatures hover in the balmy 70s — revelers descend on this mostly wild, windswept and sparsely populated province for all-night partying and the rambunctious weeklong electronic music festival Stockholmsveckan.
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For four days from July 25 to 28, Democratic politicians and delegates — along with plenty of reporters — will descend on Philadelphia for the DNC to ring in Clinton's nomination, along with that of her vice presidential pick, Virginia Sen.
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Mohammed Zzaman, who drives for Uber, Lyft and Juno, said he made fewer pickups and less money during his "hell month" in December, when holiday crowds descend on the city and it takes twice as long to cross Midtown.
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As DJs and clubbers from all around the world descend on the White Isle, the year's musical identity is defined through all-day beach parties, all-night sessions at clubbing meccas, and secret jungle parties tucked into leafy enclaves.
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Every winter for the past 60 years, a few thousand riders from throughout Europe descend on Germany (the location has changed over the years) in the dead of winter for three days of laughter, roast pig, and many, many drinks.
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Influential business leaders and lawmakers once again descend on the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos next week against a backdrop of rising populism, and early indications suggest they will at least acknowledge the dramatic political shifts of the last twelve months.
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In one fell swoop, the company removed any sense of impropriety from the remarks — while also inspiring a legion of conspiracy theorists to descend on my mentions demanding to know whether this all had been a deliberate leak from Facebook.
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As one of the premier events in the Aerospace and Defense calendar draws near and the industry prepares to descend on the Hampshire airfield, what are some of the key trends that are set to dominate discussions on the show floor?
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Late nights at Embla and Bar Liberty can become raucous affairs, especially during Melbourne's many food festivals, when sommeliers and chefs from all over the world descend on the city and gravitate to its wine bars as spontaneous after party locations.
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Around 22015,21980 delegates will descend on the Great Hall of the People, opposite the National Museum, to revise the party's constitution and appoint a new Central Committee, the 240-strong elite that will govern the country for the next five years.
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Especially on nights when friends descend on your living room, consoles in hand, you'll want the best connection possible to complete the mission and reach legendary status among the global gamer microcosm, whose company is entirely dependent on your Wi-Fi.
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Driving down the hill, we passed all the guests who'd decided to descend on foot; they all shone their iPhone lights at us while banging windows and frantically begging to be picked up, which our driver paid no mind to.
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We now know that many boys who descend on their schools with guns are motivated by fears that they are perceived as homosexual and that attacking suspected or known homosexuals is a way for boys to demonstrate heterosexuality to their peers.
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Rumblings that Soros funded women's march: Breitbart picked up an op-ed from pro-Trump journalist Asra Q. Nomani alleging that Soros funded the Women's March on Washington, one of the largest protests ever to descend on the nation's capital.
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With an estimated 4,400 Para-athletes, including 1,800 in wheelchairs, expected to descend on the city for the 12-day event, the government announced a law on Wednesday requiring all new hotels with over 50 rooms to provide wheelchair-friendly accommodation.
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When Remain only very narrowly took Newcastle, a city they could have expected to romp home with, a clammy pallor started to descend on the formerly super-chillum government ministers who were in the studio to chat about the In campaign.
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Some 20163,000 people are expected to descend on downtown Austin, Texas, for the festival each day as the nation reels from Sunday night's sniper assault on the Route 91 Harvest Festival -- which left 58 dead and nearly 500 others wounded.
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Washington (CNN)Our weekly roundup of the news, notes and chatter about the prospects for the next Democratic presidential race: Democratic 20193 prospects will descend on New Orleans this week as thousands of activists gather for the annual Netroots Nation.
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At the southern tip of Manhattan, seven million visitors annually — compared with one million more than a decade ago — descend on the 22012-acre Battery, a park that in the 1990s was mostly a walkway for commuters heading to ferries.
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The conference, where tens of thousands of hackers descend on the pseudo-glamourous "pleasure pit" that is Las Vegas, includes the Voting Village, a pop-up research lab with an array of U.S. voting equipment available for security researchers to compromise.
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For some quick inspo, read below to find out what trendsetters Shay Mitchell, Romee Strijd, Raissa Gerona, Jasmine Tookes, Shanina Shaik and Aimee Song are planning to wear from the new capsule collection as they prepare to descend on Indio.
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"When we're going to have a real problem is when cases hit their apex and descend on the health-care system and we will not have enough hospital beds," Cuomo said Monday during a press call on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — With thousands of Asia's top athletes preparing to descend on the Indonesian capital for the start of the 2018 Asian Games this weekend, city officials were in crisis mode about a heavily polluted river behind the athletes' village.
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Drug companies hired a reported 70-plus lobbyists to descend on Nevada's capitol to fight the insulin pricing bill, and one lobbyist for every two state legislators in Louisiana showed up when a proposal seemed to be gaining traction there.
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Tonight, January 5, the best of Hollywood will descend on the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA, for an evening of vegan food (seriously, 100% plant-based), carpet-grazing gowns, and drunk acceptance speeches at the 77th annual Golden Globes.
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Another option is changing up which state goes first every four years rather than giving any one state a permanent slot, and allowing the reporters and strategists who descend on Iowa en masse each year to see more of the country.
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Thousands more descend on San Francisco in January to talk deals, attend the seemingly dozens of conferences that have grown up on the sidelines of what&aposs going on at the Westin St. Francis, where JPMorgan has historically held the event.
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The gathering, also known as CBC week, is a premier political and policy event, as individuals from around the country descend on Washington to learn from one another, discuss the state of black America, and build and activate grassroots coalitions.
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More than 50 earthly beauties — among them Kendall Jenner, Adriana Lima, Irina Shayk, Joan Smalls, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Gigi and Bella Hadid — descend on Paris to walk the runway at the Grand Palais in skimpies, tail feathers and angel wings.
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But this weekend, it will claim its cosmopolitan place alongside Monaco, Marrakesh and Paris, when as many as 18,000 spectators are expected to descend on the neighborhood each day for a rare glimpse at professional auto racing in New York City.
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"K Street," as Washington's lobbying industry is known after the downtown street where much of it is based, will soon descend on Capitol Hill to defend tax benefits for companies and other special interests, said Ryan, the top Republican in Congress.
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But Brazil's Health Ministry has said the recommendation, coming just weeks before Carnival, a holiday event in which tens of thousands of tourists descend on Brazil, would not cause it to change its advisory that only travelers going to rural areas be vaccinated.
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Women from across Turkey's political and ethnic spectrums descend on Istanbul's most famous avenue for one of the few large opposition protests still permitted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a democratically elected populist who has been accused of creeping into authoritarianism.
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Billed as the largest expansion ever at Disney's theme parks, visitors who descend on Galaxy's Edge can fly the Millennium Falcon, grab a drink at Olga's Cantina and rub shoulders with Hondo Ohnaka, a pirate first introduced in the "Clone Wars" animated series.
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With hundreds of thousands of people set to descend on the National Mall on Saturday for the Women's March on Washington, it could be easy to dismiss the scores of female voters who traveled to the capital to celebrate the incoming president.
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The multi-day video game expo where hundreds of developers and publishers descend on downtown Los Angeles to market the hell out of their upcoming projects (aka "E3 2019") hasn't even officially begun, but already the battle for best publicity stunt is underway.
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Man in Killing of Ex-NFL Player Admitted to Shooting:SheriffTexan with 'You Belong' Sign Outside Mosque Goes ViralVets Descend on Standing Rock: We'll Protect Protesters The deal was touted by Donald Trump, who has pledged to keep jobs in the United States.
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The tiny coastal town of Portrush in Northern Ireland will see its population swell by as much as 21.5 times this week, as the great and the good from the world of golf descend on its shores for the most prestigious of events.
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It's Black Hat and DefCon conference time again, when the world's top security researchers descend on the den of iniquity that is Las Vegas in August and try to scare the bejeezus out of people with new research into ominous hacks. Hooray!
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As much of the GOP field descends on New Hampshire -- which votes a week from Tuesday -- so too do the establishment candidates descend on the Florida senator, whom they battle with, in order to be the alternative to Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
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Image 2 of 2 SEOUL, South Korea – It may be the strangest feeling in decades to descend on the Korean Peninsula — a wave of optimism, and not always of the cautious variety, when it comes to North Korea and its nuclear bombs.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Rolling Thunder motorcycles that descend on Washington, D.C. every Memorial Day weekend made their final ride on Sunday, ending a three decades-old tradition that was initially meant to serve to pay tribute to fallen and missing-in-action soldiers.
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As negotiators from the United States, Canada, and Mexico descend on Montreal for the latest round of NAFTA discussions, attempting to make progress on the deal, their definition of a "good agreement" should include provisions to prevent crises of externalities from NAFTA.
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World Cup holders Germany and the six winners of FIFA confederations descend on Russia for the two-week tournament that will allow the hosts to assess the readiness of four of its World Cup venues and its ability to handle fans from overseas.
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So when when Ebola was identified in Congo three months ago, there was little doubt that the Geneva headquarters would descend on the Equateur Province to do work that might have once been the purview of the less-well-funded regional office.
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It was hastily erected in recent days, and is meant to separate the hundreds of thousands of protesters expected to descend on Brasília, the Brazilian capital, this weekend as members of Congress vote on whether to begin impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff.
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It's a huge event — in terms of both its significance in Islam and the massive logistical challenge of having that many people from all walks of life and every corner of the globe descend on one relatively small place all at once.
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Why Accountability is also responsible for the widely known and loved #swipeitforward campaign, where participants descend on a busy subway station in neighborhoods across the city and swipe people into the subway with MetroCards, highlighting the predatory police practice of criminalizing poverty.
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The commercial buy also makes her the first of the top-tier candidates to hit the commercial airwaves on Iowa television, as the 2020 Democratic hopefuls descend on the state this week for the Iowa State Fair and other big political events.
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There are the candidates, of course, who descend on the state in their painted buses and black SUVs, racing from middle school gymnasiums to coffee shops to senior centers to make their case to any heartland voter looking for a viable candidate.
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The announcement comes a day before large numbers of protesters are expected to descend on Washington, DC for "March for Our Lives," a rally organized to push for stricter gun laws in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida last month.
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The decision to ban all weapons, including firearms, won't sit well with the thousands of gun lovers who are expected to descend on Richmond to participate in what was billed as an open-carry affair and an opportunity to flex Second Amendment rights.
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Mr. Campbell, a former Wall Street bond trader who moved to Denver in 23, is hardly the first investor to descend on RiNo in recent years, though the development's successful completion would rank as one of the most ambitious projects to date.
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It's all anonymized, so you can't see the location of any one individual, but the idea is to give users a window into where the masses are — something that could be useful for the thousands of people who descend on Austin for SXSW.
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This weekend, thousands of people are expected to descend on Area 51 as a result of a viral internet meme: a Facebook event titled "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us," to which more than two million people have RSVP'd.
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But Brazil's Health Ministry said the recommendation, coming just weeks before Carnival, a holiday event in which tens of thousands of tourists descend on Brazil, would not cause it to change its advisory that only travelers going to rural areas be vaccinated.
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The National Rifle Association is pulling out all the stops ahead of what's expected to be one of the largest marches of all time on Saturday, when an estimated 1 million people descend on the nation's capital to demand stricter gun control measures.
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Qatari officials have said that the 500,000 football fans expected to descend on their country during the World Cup will be allowed to consume alcohol in designated zones, but how to best balance the country's cultural values with FIFA's requirements for the tournament remains contentious.
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An estimated 200,000 women from all across America are preparing to descend on the nation's capital for the Women's March on Washington Saturday — and many will be protesting Donald Trump the day after he is sworn into office simply by the hat on their head.
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As photographers descend on Hawaii to photograph the astounding scenes of a volcanic eruption, CNN has curated those images down to the frames that will leave us most in awe — from those showing lava inching toward homes and humans, to ash plumes framing unperturbed golfers.
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I don't remember if you could hear pennants snapping in that game, but in my memory I can hear them clear as day as my depleted army of elite knights, longbowmen, and men-at-arms waited for the Egyptians to descend on our position.
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Man in Killing of Ex-NFL Player Admitted to Shooting:Sheriff Texan with 'You Belong' Sign Outside Mosque Goes Viral Vets Descend on Standing Rock: We'll Protect Protesters Martial music could be heard outside the cemetery, where Ines de la Rosa was among the mourners gathered.
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And when Moab "truthers" descend on an innocent resident of the town in vengeance, a consortium of techies cuts the last thread, unleashing a system that will create huge numbers of fake, conflicting theories about her in order to insulate her from all of them.
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An autocratic petrostate investing in prestige events and glistening highrises to gain a foothold on the world stage is nothing new, and it was interesting to see the world's sporting press descend on the city, mention the Dior boutiques and incoming Starbucks, and move on.
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The announcement appears to only be coming today because the Game Developer Conference will start in earnest tomorrow in San Francisco, and thousands of game developers will be descend on Moscone Center to learn figure out what the next generation of games will look like.
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In contrast to its sister show The Bachelor, The Bachelorette is made even sillier by, well, its men Instead of watching 25 ladies descend on one man — an act that's more commonplace than you'd think; have you ever been to a bar in New York?
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"There will be options for all kinds of budgets..." Most of the 500,000 fans expected to descend on the tiny country will stay in hotels and apartments, but an earlier announcement suggested thousands could also camp under canvas in desert areas close to stadiums.
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At the end of January, over 1,000 high school and college students will descend on Texas A&M University to present their designs for a Hyperloop pod, which according to Musk's vision would travel up to 760 mph through an elevated, frictionless tube connecting cities.
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U.S. shale players and the global energy industry descend on Houston this week for the 35th annual IHS CERAWeek energy conference and will hear directly from top OPEC officials on the policy that has helped drive oil prices down 70 percent from their highs.
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With roughly 10,000 athletes expected to descend on the Olympic Village, once described by gold medal-winning Australian target shooter Russell Mark as "the most testosterone fueled place on earth", Japanese condom companies are keen to promote their unique products to an international audience.
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An autocratic petrostate investing in prestige events and glistening highrises to gain a foothold on the world stage is nothing new, and it was interesting to see the world's sporting press descend on the city, mention the Dior boutiques and incoming Starbucks, and move on.
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Tonight, around 7,500 young people—a mixture of naive first years, cocky second years, privileged trust funders, local chancers, creepy postgrads, and opportunistic dealers—will descend on Trinity College in their finest tuxedos, suits, ball gowns and faux fur, for the Trinity College Ball.
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Interviews with political leaders briefed on the inquiry, along with briefings from investigators and a federal law enforcement source, shed light on an investigation that saw hundreds of federal agents descend on Austin, gathering and reconstructing bomb fragments, interviewing witnesses and gathering video footage.
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Rolling Thunder -- an annual event in which motorcyclists from across the country descend on Washington over Memorial Day weekend to honor service members killed in action, missing in action or being held as prisoners of war -- was supposed to end after the 2019 edition.
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Eastwood, instead, makes the radical decision to respect him as he is, and to show how easily both his everyday shortcomings and his honesty and decency are distorted and exploited by the predators who descend on him at what should be his moment of glory.
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An active duty U.S. sailor whose submarine was docked at Pearl Harbor opened fire on three civilian employees, killing two and then taking his own life just days before dignitaries and veterans descend on the base for the 78th anniversary of the Japanese attack.
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CANNES, France (Reuters) - With just a few weeks to go until Hollywood stars descend on Cannes for its famed film festival, the glamorous spot on the French Riviera played host to a different kind of drama on Thursday when police staged a security exercise.
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Hundreds of thousands of Muslim women descend on Mecca in Saudi Arabia each year to take part in the Hajj, but in recent weeks some female worshipers have told CNN they experienced incidents of sexual abuse or harassment while participating in the five-day pilgrimage.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As world leaders descend on New York for talks on global security, Australia's former prime minister urged U.S. President Donald Trump not to focus just on North Korea but to tackle the unrest fueled by lack of opportunity in poor countries.
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One month before thousands of well-heeled millennials were set to descend on a remote island in the Bahamas for the Fyre Festival to frolic on yachts, rub elbows with models, and hear acts like Blink 182 and Major Lazer, the organizers had a big problem.
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Mercier is an organizer of Gallery of Salons, a volunteer network of black women who shut down their own salons or took time off from work to descend on the NRG Center to clean and style the hair of evacuees inside one of Houston's largest evacuation shelters.
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Farmers, traders and consumers descend on the town, known locally as "the city of dates", in the central Qassim region, one of the most conservative parts of the country, for the 45-day event, which organizers say is the largest of its kind in the world.
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His belief that black sharecroppers in the Deep South deserved the same consideration as intellectual and economic elites led to his championing a Poor Peoples Campaign that planned to descend on the nation's capital in May 1968 until Congress passed legislation that addressed growing inequality in America.
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Just a few months earlier in December 1986, as noted in the February search warrant, a D.C. detective found the following in the rear of the house whose address Mary had given investigators: The timing was perfect for the national media to descend on the case.
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While the anger from Trump supporters who were fearful he would be denied the nomination appears to have diminished, masses of anti-Trump demonstrators are still expected to descend on Cleveland, a city that has been a caldron of racial tensions between the police and residents.
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In previous years, the annual correspondents' dinner has served as a star-studded reason for Hollywood's A-listers to descend on D.C. — with everyone from Tom Cruise to Kerry Washington jetting to the nation's capital to rub elbows with journalists, lawmakers and the commander in chief.
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As many as 50,103 people could descend on the towns of Hiko and Rachel, Nevada, for two Area-51 themed events starting September 19, and the influx of alien enthusiasts and internet jokesters could completely overwhelm the tiny towns and the secretive Air Force base nearby.
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But as I walked through the emptied, reeking streets of SoHo, where I lived, or stood along the Hudson River with throngs of other stunned New Yorkers, watching emergency vehicles descend on Manhattan, I experienced a sliver of another sensation: the consciousness that I could escape.
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When harvest season hits in early fall, "trimmigrants" from all corners of the globe descend on the area looking for what may just be the last real migrant worker gig left in the nation—closely trimming tight emerald nuggets of pot for the voracious medical marijuana market.
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Some Hollywood stars will be in town for inauguration weekend after all — with John Leguizamo, "Madam Secretary" actor Tim Daly, "Mad Men" actress Christina Hendricks and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" actress Cheryl Hines among those poised to descend on Washington next week to advocate for the arts.
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What started off as an ad-hoc club night became a brand so big it spawned 22007 albums, played sold out venues around the world and hosted a millennium party that saw 225,25 ravers descend on its "spiritual home" of Sheffield to welcome in the noughties.
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They fend off the bloodsuckers who descend on the school dance in the movie's climactic battle, and after she stakes the vampire king Lothos (Rutger Hauer), they come together for a slow song and a typical Joss Whedon exchange: "I suppose you want to lead," says Pike.
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Country Club Disco + Fk A Genre Who: Mija, Billy Kenny, Golf Clap Where: The Annex When: 10PM-4AM OWSLA star Mija is the main reason to go to this official Movement afterparty, which will descend on a club that's a short walk away from the festival grounds.
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The watchmaker uses it as an opportunity to promote its ultratechnical watches, which cost as much as $2 million, to the wealthy "yachties" who descend on the island for a week of hard-core racing that, this year, will see 52 boats compete in five classes.
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But this Sunday, when 18,1103 members and supporters are expected to descend on Washington for the annual Aipac Policy Conference, a new wave of anti-Israel critics, including several new members of Congress, have resurrected the anti-Semitic canard that American Jews have too much power.
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The crime appears to have been an example of a practice called swatting: A perpetrator makes a false report of a bomb or shooter at a victim's address, with the goal of causing law enforcement officers, such as a SWAT team, to descend on the residence.
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As the big broadcast networks and ad buyers descend on Manhattan this week for the start of the annual advertising sales season known as upfronts, that Colbert-Fallon role reversal says everything you need to know about the political charge that's shaking up the television world.
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He envisions an observation deck and roof garden on what would have been the decommissioned supertanker's bridge, as well as lifts, hanging gardens, a waterfall, wind turbine and series of internal ramps from which visitors would descend, on foot or by scooter, past art and other installations.
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But Archie's helps dispel a myth that has taken hold — at least among some members of the press corps who descend on the state every four years to cover the presidential caucuses — that Iowans subsist on heat-lamped slices from Pizza Ranch and pork chops on a stick.
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There's a lot to look forward to this year: news and updates for some of the biggest television shows, movies, books, and games coming out in the coming months, along with a plethora of cosplayers and collectors who will descend on Manhattan's Javits Center for the next four days.
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Every year the great and good (and bad) of the hacker/information-security world descend on Las Vegas for a week of conferences, in which many present their latest discoveries, and every year I try to itemize the most interesting (according to me) Black Hat talks for TechCrunch.
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Since 2013, the Yulin authorities have held internal meetings to "advise" the vendors to stop public slaughter; in 2014, they removed the word "dog" from business signs; and in the past two years they've urged traders and vendors to avoid conflict with activists who descend on the town.
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This time the presidents of America and Russia, the prime ministers of China, India and Japan and 5,000-odd other foreign officials and journalists are about to descend on a city that is no bigger than the obscure Thai provincial capital on the opposite bank of the Mekong river.
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We should not be surprised to see Air Force One descend on Pyongyang, followed by a declaration of the end of the Korean War in exchange for a promise to dismantle the nuclear facilities in Yongbyon, as suggested this week by South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung Wha.
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In the new musical comedy "The Prom," a farcical quartet of self-centered theater stars who descend on a small town in Indiana are played by a farce-loving quartet of real theater stars who have been encouraged to portray their roles as heightened versions of their own personalities.
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Well off the beaten path and one of Africa's last, great, uninhabited safari areas, the Selous delivers all the big game without the big (human) crowds that descend on the better known African parks like the Ngorongoro Crater in northern Tanzania or the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.
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The CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll will come as candidates descend on the Polk County Steak Fry on Saturday, the latest cattle call in the first-in-the-nation caucus state that allows candidates to pitch themselves as the best contender to take on President Donald Trump.
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Every January, a glittering array of the cognoscenti descend on the Alps: the tech-titan-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft; the billionaire investor George Soros; Jack Ma, the founder of China's e-commerce giant, Alibaba; and — until recently — Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany.
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Chronic lack of privacy, that inevitable theme of Indian life and fiction, and a source of tender hilarity in "Family Planning," here assumes oppressive form as Vikas's relatives descend on the bereaved couple, theatrically slipping sleeping pills into their tea and removing the knives from their kitchen drawers.
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Will Toledo, who heads up Car Seat Headrest, lets his guitar meander for long stretches before songs take shape: hear his minute-plus intro on this year's "Vincent," after which he scoffs at summer tourists who descend on his college town of Williamsburg, Virginia, disturbing his own vacation.
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Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police say they're determined not to repeat the mistakes of Charlottesville, as they prepare for white supremacists and anti-fascist protesters to descend on the nation's capital Sunday for the anniversary of last year's violent "Unite the Right" rally, which left one dead and dozens injured.
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It's that time of year, friends — the Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival is soon to descend on Indio, CA for a two-weekend-long orgy of music, surprisingly awesome food, and of course, the most outré and eye-candy-ish attire that concert-goers can pack into their cars.
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Every January, a glittering array of the cognoscenti descend on the Alps: from the tech-titan-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to the billionaire investor George Soros, to Jack Ma, the founder of China's e-commerce giant, Alibaba, to — until recently — Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany.
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Most of the 500,000 fans expected to descend on the tiny Gulf country will stay in hotels and apartments, but thousands could also camp under canvas in desert areas close to stadiums, a move organisers are holding up as a creative, and culturally authentic, way for Qatar to meet FIFA requirements.
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According to the Pennsylvania Tourism Office, as many as 30,000 people descend on the tiny town annually to watch Phil emerge from his slumber, either seeing his shadow and running back into his burrow, meaning six more weeks of winter, or bravely lingering outside, meaning spring is around the corner.
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The weekend after next, when hundreds of thousands of people descend on downtown Manhattan to either participate or watch the march unfold, Reclaim Pride protesters will be "gathering and marching to the staging area of the resistance contingent together and will then attempt to gain entry without their wristbands," Tolan said.
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While protesters clash with police in Hong Kong and Chung streams Liberate Hong Kong, people in America are preparing to descend on BlizzCon next week, and it's looking increasingly likely some may stage protests at the event to pressure Blizzard and other game companies into more actively supporting freedom of speech.
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A witness told the NTSB he saw Halladay's ICON A5 single-engine amphibious airplane perform a climb to between 300 and 14.53 feet (91 to 152 m) and then turn and descend on a nose-down dive of about 45 degrees before the plane hit the water, the report said.
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Every year, millions of pilgrims descend on Medina's Great Mosque, usually before or after the hajj pilgrimage, or during the last ten nights of Ramadan, keen to visit the tomb of the Prophet Mohammed, to pray in his mosque, to sit where he once sat, in this holiest time of year.
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Scream's leading final girl Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and her friends and family are all introduced to the Hollywood versions of themselves (including Parker Posey playing the movie version of Courteney Cox's Gale Weathers), along with a bevy of industry execs who descend on the fictional town of Woodsboro, Calif.
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These deals, their expected outcomes and the impact on the broader gold mining industry are expected to dominate the conversation at the annual conference of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, when tens of thousands of participants from around the world - from executives to investors to regulators - descend on Toronto.
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Far-right protesters and counterprotesters are expected to descend on Washington, D.C., on Sunday on the one-year anniversary of the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va. It was just a year ago Saturday that tiki-torch-carrying white supremacists protesting the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen.
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The state GOPs and Trump campaign "have called on supporters to descend on polling places in 'certain areas' — generally, the urban communities of color where they and their allies have stoked fabricated threats of massive voter fraud — in order to intimidate voters at the polls," the Democratic complaint in Arizona alleges.
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Eight years later, he has developed the nonprofit Israel Lacrosse Association, which has an eight-city league, has been a catalyst for youth engagement and, starting on July 12, will host the largest world championship in the sport's history when 46 teams descend on Netanya for 11 days of competition.
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Every year, on the first weekend in September, an estimated 225 million people descend on the northern French city to wander through streets lined with bric-a-brac, have a drink in a cafe or bar, eat the local specialty of mussels and fries, and generally have a good time.
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Thousands of people — many from out of town — are expected to descend on the city to either protest or participate in a "Unite the Right" rally on Saturday convened by white nationalists who oppose a plan to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general, from a city park.
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Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Monday, April 25, 2016, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)On Thursday a group of anti-Trump activists will descend on Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California to protest against the tech giant's participation in the Republican National Convention this July.
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In reality, there is no serious prospect whatever of Turkey joining the EU, now or "in the long term," but, by saying that, Cameron opened a space for the Leave campaign to claim in demagogic and xenophobic fashion that hordes of Turkish immigrants would soon descend on England's green and pleasant land.
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BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL (Friday through Sunday) Depending on your music tastes, this popular annual event could be seen as the literary equivalent of Woodstock in '69 or Afropunk in 2016, as hundreds of marquee authors — of poetry, fiction, criticism and narrative journalism — descend on the borough for collaborative discussions, readings and more.
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For that reason, hundreds, if not thousands of neo-Nazis from central Europe are expected to descend on the tiny east German town of Ostritz Friday to attend the Shield and Sword Festival — a far-right event that promises ultranationalists a full-spectrum modern festival experience, running the gamut of neo-Nazi subculture.
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These are idyllic scenes from a one-minute video promoting the inaugural Caspian Economic Forum, which between August 11 and 43 will see heads of state from Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan descend on Awaza, a new resort town that has been touted by Turkmenistan's Foreign Ministry as the country's Las Vegas.
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We hope this week, as children and families descend on Washington to speak to members of Congress and share their personal health care stories, our lawmakers listen, care, and take action to prioritize children's health together and improve children's access to the high quality, specialized care that millions of families depend on.
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She has worked up to the lightweight ski mountaineering gear she uses today, and also competes in uphill-downhill skimo events like the long course version of the Breck Ascent Series and the Rando Series at Arapahoe Basin, in which competitors ascend the mountain multiple times and descend on double-black-rated terrain.
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Tens of thousands of Americans will descend on Havana this season as U.S. travel restrictions loosen and direct flights between the two countries begin, part of a raft of measures by the Obama administration over the last two years to bring the two countries closer together after decades of Cold War enmity.
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Man in Killing of Ex-NFL Player Admitted to Shooting:Sheriff Texan with 'You Belong' Sign Outside Mosque Goes Viral Vets Descend on Standing Rock: We'll Protect Protesters Many of the families are eager to be caught so they can apply for asylum or temporary protected status as they try to escape the violence back home.
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"He knows the politics, culture and history of his state in a way that makes him an invaluable resource for those of us who descend on 'LAS' looking for everything from Harry Reid's latest thinking to the best restaurant on and off the strip," said Jonathan Martin, The New York Times' national political correspondent.
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CLEVELAND — With thousands of protesters expected to descend on Cleveland for next week's Republican National Convention, city officials have devised intricate plans to handle mass arrests should chaos break out on the streets, identifying jail facilities to house more than 210 arrested protesters and keeping courts open for 2000 hours daily to process cases.
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On Saturday, September 16, two groups will descend on Washington: Attendees at the "Mother of All Rallies," a pro-Trump event which demands "protection for traditional American culture," and a march of Juggalos — fans of the horror-rap duo Insane Clown Posse famous for their violent lyrics, rowdy music festivals, and love of face paint.
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She has made the argument for her candidate face to face, house to house, going to places politicians often don't to rally support She is one of the hundreds of young staffers and volunteers who descend on Iowa every four years like an invading army and are the vital backbone of presidential campaigns here.
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DALLAS — Two weeks after the close of the State Fair of Texas, with the smells of deep-fried Oreos and funnel cake still lingering in the air, 2000,24 Indian-Americans from across the country are expected to descend on the same site this Saturday to observe Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights and one of India's most important holidays.
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There have been times, not long past, when it has felt so improbable — and, in some ways, inappropriate — that the world would descend on Russia for this party that it has been hard to conceive of this World Cup as a sporting event at all, rather than a test of a nation's strength and an international community's resolve.
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Hugh Town, the village of a thousand souls that serves as the capital of St. Mary's, the largest of the Isles of Scilly, is a bustling place in summer, its population swollen by the throngs of tourists who descend on this archipelago off the southwestern tip of England, 30 miles or so out into the Atlantic.
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Mothers in Japan, like Yoshiko Nishimasa, above, are shouldering most of the work at home, including daily preschool paperwork, with little help from fathers; thousands of agricultural families descend on Denver for a 16-day celebration of Western heritage; and 63 years ago, a retired actor found a Greenwich Village apartment for $90 a month and never left.
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With an estimated one million people expected to descend on the area in the week leading up to the game and 75,000 expected to attend the game itself, the Super Bowl is sure to receive a lot of attention in terms of threat assessment and security risks, and the memo lists some very specific examples to be investigated before the game.
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At about the 15 minute mark of the video above, however, you can see they had an unusual group of viewers descend on their shooting location (which appears to be a parking lot): third base coach Jim Riggleman, pitching coach Mack Jenkins, special assistant to the general manager, former Pirates GM Cam Bonifay, and the general manager himself, Dick Williams.
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In 280, Operation Save America picked Montgomery as the site of their 2015 national event, an annual protest that calls on antis from across the country to descend on one town, one abortion clinic, and spend a week camped out front—spouting vitriol into megaphones, raining down judgment, waving gruesome signs, and doing everything they can to shame and condemn women.
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Read more: A Facebook executive was the victim of a hoax claiming he had shot his wife and taken his children hostageThe death of 28-year-old Andrew Finch in Wichita, Kansas, drew national attention to "swatting," a form of retaliation in which someone reports a false emergency to get authorities, particularly a SWAT team, to descend on an address.
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I am not a reader of portents or horoscopes, and I greet the promises of fortune cookies with wry hope at best, but there was a time, more than 20 years ago, when I once hand-delivered 20 copies of a chain letter on the last day before bad luck was supposed to descend on anyone who dared to break the chain.
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As Republicans descend on Cleveland for their unconventional convention, my questions go beyond how the G.O.P. will pay for it, considering how many corporate sponsors have fled; if they'll need to hire seat fillers for all the Republican senators and luminaries who have sent their regrets; and whether the final, formal platform will be more censoriously puritanical than the shaming of Hester Prynne.
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Six days after the election, the Bagger was emailed regarding the elevated urgency of Leonardo DiCaprio and Fisher Stevens's climate change documentary, "Before the Flood" — what with the United States being a leading emitter of greenhouse gases and, despite President-elect Donald J. Trump's claim about an "open mind" on the matter, global warming deniers set to descend on the White House.
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As world leaders descend on New York City, they are already well aware of the urgent whistleblower complaint, lodged by a member of the intelligence community, concerning at least one of President Trump's communications with a foreign leader as well as Trump's own admission that he discussed Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Starting this week, an endless number of commentators, including yours truly, will descend on the cable news networks to breathlessly analyze the Senate trial of President TrumpDonald John TrumpMnuchin knocks Greta Thunberg's activism: Study economics and then 'come back' to us The Hill's Morning Report - House prosecutes Trump as 'lawless,' 'corrupt' What to watch for on Day 3 of Senate impeachment trial MORE.
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President Barack Obama has once again invited numerous heads of state, top bureaucrats, and countless legions of flunkies to descend on some lucky city, as they've done every two years since 2010, to remind each other that it would be a really, really bad thing if terrorists got nukes, dirty bombs, or just about anything that glows in the dark.
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Every April, a ton of celebrities descend on the desert for Coachella's three-day, two-weekend music festival in their perfectly-styled (usually expensive) designer outfits, but only one has truly earned the title of the unofficial "queen of Coachella": Vanessa Hudgens "I feel like, around this time, I get called that more," the actress tells PEOPLE about her association with the famously boho-fancy festival.
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But with just over three years until the opening match, and with more than a million foreign fans expected to descend on Qatar during the monthlong tournament, the planners tasked with World Cup lodging and ticketing continue to grapple with an uncomfortable, and inescapable, reality: Qatar, the smallest country to host a World Cup, might struggle to find rooms for all the expected visitors.
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While there is just not enough documentation or scientific evidence to begin to explain or even confirm these sightings, that doesn't stop the dozens of people that once a year descend on the same park to watch and assist Mr. Bingham as he tries to summon the "objects," as they call them, and also to hang out with other enthusiasts who have turned into friends.
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With tens of thousands of athletes, journalists and spectators expected to descend on Pyeongchang for the Games, it's also a coming-out party of sorts for South Korea as a winter sports hub, a chance to show the world that it, too, has sparkling-white slopes and a top-notch skiing infrastructure that can continue to attract powder hounds long after the Olympics are over.
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At the fall 2018 men's wear shows at the Pitti Uomo trade fair in Italy this week, thousands of fashion editors, retailers, publicists, photographers, models and occupational peacocks will descend on Florence, second stop on a five-city tour of duty that began in London and won't end until the last model has made his final runway exit during New York Fashion Week: Men.
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Fyre Festival organizers blew all their money early on models, planes, and yachts Fyre Festival organizers blew all their money early on models, planes, and yachts One month before thousands of well-heeled millennials were set to descend on a remote island in the Bahamas for the Fyre Festival to frolic on yachts, rub elbows with models, and hear acts like Blink 182 and Major Lazer, the organizers had a big problem.
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Thousands of gun-rights activists, members of militia groups, and white supremacists, were expected to descend on Richmond for the the "Lobby Day Rally," which coincides with a date that celebrates the legacy of civil rights advocate Martin Luther King, Jr.Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced a state of emergency on Wednesday, citing "credible threats of violence" reminiscent of language used by white nationalists at the fatal "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
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As the Trumps jet off to Mar-a-Lago for the Thanksgiving holiday, "a small army of volunteer decorators and florists from around the country will descend on the White House on Friday and spend the holiday weekend transforming the 132-room mansion for Christmas, complete with a tree in every public room," AP's Darlene Superville writes: "The White House grounds superintendent and the chief usher, who oversees the residence, picked out the tree during a September scouting trip ... The tree for the Blue Room usually arrives the day after Thanksgiving, but it was delivered early this year to accommodate the Trumps, who [left yesterday for] their Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida."
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