Sentences with phrase «urban people live»

Urban people live in stressed societies... and the Karoo offers a healing experience.

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As I shared with Inc., the biggest mistake we make as entrepreneurs is appealing to urban, upwardly - mobile young people on either coast - and in living all across the country, I understand how diversity not only represents color, but also orientation, income and needs.

As people start living in more sterile and urban environments their immune systems aren't exposed to microbes and don't know what to do when they encounter allergens or bacteria, making allergies and auto - immune diseases more prevalent, Scientific American's podcast Science Talk explains.

The 2013 Hult Prize, which kicks off the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting for heads of state and leaders of businesses and nonprofits, will award $ 1 million to the sole startup idea that best secures food for undernourished communities — particularly for the 200 million people who live in urban slums.

Though a plant delivery service might work in a dense urban population, people who like gardening tend to live far outside city centres.

Richard Florida, the urban studies theorist and author of «The Rise of the Creative Class» recently cited three particular Boulder ingredients that could help explain its start - up density: «talented people and a high quality of life that keeps them around, technological expertise, and an open - mindedness about new ways of doing things, which often comes from a strong counterculture.»

«This is a passion project for most people,» said Claire Nelson, owner of the Bureau of Urban Living, an accessories boutique, and one of the organizers of a loose network of local entrepreneurs that functions like a support group.

And those views appear to feed the rural - urban divide: A 56 percent majority of rural residents says the federal government does more to help people living in and around large cities, while 37 percent feel they treat both urban and rural areas equally.

I'm very much looking forward to participating in this forum at the Urban Institute on Monday, where I'll be on a panel talking about the role of higher education in both the economy and the lives of the people in the economy.

If we are to believe in «majority rules» (and I think that most people in this province do), the reality is that the MAJORITY of people in this province live in urban areas, not rural ones.

The index doesn't reflect changes in the quality of items over time and can't tell us much about the spending patterns of the poor, or of people living outside of urban areas.

A second reason is that (so the planners believe) urban life uses less energy than suburban life, because people walk instead of drive, etc..

A few weeks ago: arriving at an urban tent camp where more than 50,000 people live.

As Fiorenza has observed, «Paul's advice to remain free from the marriage bond was a frontal assault upon the institutions of existing law and the general cultural ethos, especially since it was given to a people who lived in the urban centres of the Roman Empire.»

Today in America most people live in large urban centers, not small communities.

In a village the church may still be one of the centers of community life, whereas in urban areas when people move, they may find it hard to relate to a new church.

William H. Whyte, a leader in the study of modern urban street life, spent decades studying the patterns of diverse people on the move.

If the suburb was the reverse side of the American family's plunge into the rush, complexity and work of urban life, it was there that people were met and received by the Christian church.

Industrial development has brought workers into the great urban organizing centers and in the process has driven a wedge between a person's work life and his or her home life.

Coupled with the industrialization of production in factories, this brought a radical shift in people's lives, from a predominantly rural existence to a predominantly urban one, first in Europe and later elsewhere.

Like many urban young people today, they had to endure that scandal, and to make life even more difficult, Joseph and Mary were forced to flee their hometown with their son to a neighboring nation as immigrants to escape persecution and genocide.

Instead of teaching their own positive convictions, which can help overcome a dehumanizing orthodoxy and so transform the life of the church, these schools seem to think that they will transform society and church by offering this or that course in urban studies, by relocating the setting of education to the places «where people live,» and by increased field experiences.

In modern urban life, many people seem to have lost any sense of purpose or meaning in life; this was surely true in East Harlem.

Since then, as in the United States, agribusiness has replaced subsistence farming and there have been vast movements of population to cities often unable to provide people with the minimum facilities of urban life.

The precipitous plunging of people from the life of nomads, peasants, and forest dwellers to that of urban industrial workers has had catastrophic effects on morale.

Against a background of these events and actions, in which more than fifty congregations are now involved and in which hundreds of people have gained experience in dealing with elected and appointed authorities, the story of the Nehemiah Project can he understood As Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all about.

In the urban centers there were cathedral churches staffed by a considerable corps of the clergy responsible for the cure of souls in the area and sometimes, as in the case of Chantry priests, committed to saying masses for designated persons living or dead.

Arla Foods Ingredients has launched Health to - Go, an innovative protein - rich ingredient solution that can be used to create convenient snack products that will appeal to the growing number of people living in urban areas.

That said, while only 32 % of the sample comprised people born overseas, this is comparable with the proportion of people living in major urban centres in NSW who have been born overseas (31 %)(Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2007a).

Ahearn was also the first person I photographed for Urban Exodus, my project documenting the the lives of modern - day homesteaders, which I started in 2013.

Stark is especially interested in drought - resistant, low - carbon - footprint wild edible plants that could serve as a source of fresh, affordable, and nutritious food for people living in urban food deserts.

Strengthens communities and inspires young people to achieve their potential through hands - on education and job training, using urban, natural, and maritime resources as «living classrooms.»

Located in Downtown Denver, Urban Farmer Steakhouse will pay homage to the people who live and work in the Mile High City

I thought about all of the vegan friendly restaurants I had read about, the history of the city itself, the architecture from neighborhood to neighborhood, the abundance of parks and murals that weave throughout the urban landscape, and of course, my favorite peoples who lived in Philadelphia that we were headed to see.

People who live in urban areas such as New York, Boston or New Jersey can note that there are specific styles of window guards approved for use for building codes and home builder's regulations.

Cuba has more than 11,200,000 people, with 75 per cent of them living in urban areas.

The existence of party «clubs» might sound a little alien to people who live upstate, where they are not the norm — though some do exist, mostly in urban centers like Albany and Buffalo.

The student should also have demonstrated leadership and support of the ideals of the Urban League - to improve the quality of life of the economically, socially and educationally disadvantaged persons within the Broome County area.

Ben Carson the Housing and Urban Development secretary introduced a new proposal Wednesday that would increase rent payments for more than two million people living in public housing.

Ranching, which is a major part of farming in the mountain West, is less heavily subsidized, as is fruit growing and wine making which is a particularly large part of farm economies in Florida, California and Arizona, each of which has a larger than average percentage of people living in urban areas.

People living in the countryside travel 45 per cent further in England than those based in urban areas.

Both governments and other people play a major role in an urban dweller's life.

If you have doubts, compare level of life of the poorest people in the an urban ghetto in USA vs. random poor worker or peasant in USSR who lived far from the center in late 1980s or 1960s (when people were not artificially subcidized by selling oil to the west as under Brezhnev).

«Catholic Charities is pleased to partner with the Erie County Department of Social Services and the Buffalo Urban League to provide this summer employment opportunity for our young people living in Buffalo and Erie County.

According to the survey, urban dwellers, females, and the majority of people living in the Western, Eastern and Central regions, identified unemployment as their biggest problem in country.

Other achievements, according to the Organized Labour include, «payment of 13th Month salary as Christmas bonus to the state workers; elaborate infrastructural developments of both urban and rural areas of the state through unique fiscal management of the state's meager resources; transformation of the education, agriculture and health sectors, other areas of governance which have improved the quality of lives of the people of Enugu State; approval of payment of arrears of salaries of 731 former staff of some state parastatals and also, the regularization of 42 casual staff of the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Parklane Enugu, as permanent staff of the institution», among others.

In 2014, 54 % of the world's population, or 3.9 billion people, lived in urban areas.

«Location also mattered, as people living in rural areas had higher rates of diagnosed diabetes than those in urban areas, and the South had the highest rates of various regions in the United States,» Towne said.

«The urban landscape in these settings is very disorientating, even for people who live there,» he says.

Millions of people around the world live in unmapped urban environments, presenting huge public health risks.