Sentences with phrase «about urban people»

Generally speaking, this one is an urban film about urban people — well, suburban, obviously — but it is about an urban spirit.

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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.»

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal blog Independent Street, she outlined Magic's qualifications, as summarized by reporter Kelly Spors: «He's started a string of successful businesses, could draw celebrity attention to a stodgy federal agency, cares about helping the disadvantaged and urban revitalization and aligns himself with smart people.»

I would imagine in urban areas like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, which have significant populations of recent immigrants, there's probably a significant subset of people who fled from countries where governments do all sorts of nasty things with the information they collect about their citizens and who aren't all that keen to provide such information here (you might say, «sure, but Canada's not Iran», to which the answer would be «exactly»).

At a moment when the Republicans are talking about entitlement reform, and Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is proposing to triple the rents of some of the poorest people in the country, the sight of big banks reporting surges in profits that were fuelled by tax cuts raises alarming moral questions.

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.

It doesn't even matter if he is giving the people what they want — as unlikely as it is that the people who voted for Donald Trump for president did so because they love Thursday night cliffhangers about who will be the next secretary of housing and urban development.

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.

People make a lot of assumptions about women pastors — that they have to be aggressively ambitious, that they can only survive in a liberal and urban environment, that they can't serve in Reformed churches, that they must devote all their work and writing to defending their call.

As Geifman notes, Russia's «urban populace swelled from around 9 million people in the mid-19th century to about 25 million in 1913, with inhabitants of most major Russian cities increasing four - or five-fold,» leading to a «breakdown of social values.»

I have talked to several people about writing on urban ministry, missiology, or preaching.

Last summer, the company did a few «proof of concept» events, and, unsurprisingly, people got really excited about the prospect of using a gigantic urban waterslide.

But the people who are pushing for congregations to shoulder more of the burden of urban development need to be honest about church realities and capacities.

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.

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.

I saw people talking good things here on Parenting From The Heart Blog and generaly in the internet about Susan Urban and her «How to teach a baby to fall asleep alone» guide (http://www.parental-love.com).

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I am sure that when these leaders wake up each morning, they are not thinking about foreign policy, but about domestic social unrest, the lack of provision of a proper welfare system, about how to deal with the issue of internal migrants (some 200 million people on the move from villages to urban areas demanding the same rights as urban locals), and so on.

Eunice Goes suggested to me that the sneers against areas such as Hampstead and Islington are part of a wider cynicism about urban - dwelling educated people that has existed for centuries but is becoming more prevalent in our post-factual age, «there is a very long established tradition of anti-intellectualism in England that is more about posturing than reality because there are lots of excellent English intellectuals».

She attributes the change to becoming educated by people like Mayor Bloomberg about the influence of illegal guns on urban crime.

She adds: «When I first started... they [fellow journalists] thought I was militant, because at that time you weren't really hearing a lot of people raising their hand asking about urban issues on a consistent basis.»

People on the Lower East Side have been fighting about SPURA since at least 1967, when thousands of homes and businesses were bulldozed in the name of urban renewal.

Urban people are more worried about being shot by criminals than losing the guns they mostly don't own.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. today announced that an outstanding partnership of public and private partners is working together to hold an Employment Workshop on May 6th to help the people of Utica's urban neighborhoods learn about employment opportunities at the Defense Finance Accounting Service office at Griffiss Park in Rome.

Future City Dongtan China watches over every drop of water On a small, thinly populated island about 14 miles off the coast of Shanghai, a city is rising that could spell salvation for the 1 billion people expected to live in China's urban areas by 2045.

But the amount of land space taken up by cities is actually relatively small compared with the number of people they shelter: satellite image composites show that urban sites cover only 2.8 per cent of the Earth's land; accordingly the UN estimates that about 3.3 billion people occupy an area less than half the size of Australia.

Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt) in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».

Over 50 per cent of all Chinese people now live in urban areas, compared with about 20 per cent in 1980.

«While there is information available about counties in the United States that exceed EPA air pollution standards, there has not been a similar source of information about how that air pollution actually affects the health of people living in those areas,» said lead study author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and assistant professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.

«The results help us understand which type of flooding people care about most and should be prioritized in terms of management in urban areas,» Ando said.

Californians are at particular risk from wildfire - related health impacts, because the state has the largest population in the U.S. living in wildland - urban interface (inhabited areas approaching wildland areas) where there is an elevated risk of being exposed to wildfires.14 More than 11 million people, about 30 percent of the California population, live in these wildland - urban interfaces.5

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The Greater Bendigo municipality is home to around 100,000 while the city has a steadily growing urban population of about 80,000 people which places it as the fourth largest regional centre in Victoria after Ballarat, Geelong and Melbourne.

Hi, I'm from Belarus, but now I'm leaving and working in Poland About myself... I'm not an urban person, I love nature and I prefer to live outside the city (90 % of the time) though I was born in the capital of Belarus...

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An urban themed chat line specifically built to connect African Americans, Vibeline has a lot of 18 + users in Detroit and is among the best platforms to find that person you've been dreaming about.

At one point, Nick jokes about movies that are made about people who don't do much, a meta - reference to the film itself, but even urban ennui and marital apathy have been captured with more do - nothing honesty than Perry achieves here.

Tell a story about oppression and justice wrapped in a deliciously violent wrapping underneath the story of the relationship between two people, in this case veteran Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) and the rookie Judge (and mutant) Anderson (played wonderfully by Olivia Thirlby).

This is the game that spawned the widely - believed urban legend about the Japanese government banning Enix from releasing Dragon Quest games on weekdays due to masses of people skipping work or school to pick it up.

I think at this stage in the game it's about taking other people and dropping them into this reasonably insular, gritty, urban, dark world of Deadpool.»

She started her career as an actress in «mumblecore» movies, low - budget films about young people in urban centers that typically relied on improvisational performances.

«When I got to Harvard something that struck me, especially with literacy and urban adolescents, was what people called a «crisis» in adolescent literacy... [exploring this] was the area that I was most passionate about.»

«Students learn about the people who live in these urban communities as they provide carefully crafted programs.

The middle class and urban journalists have been forced to encounter people completely unlike themselves — or at least perceived as such — in this part of the city they have never had to go to, that they have always heard about from a distance.

They read a novel about life in urban America, they write letters to city council members and state representatives, the compile statistics to support their arguments in their letters; in short, they use their discipline - based skills of scientific inquiry, math, literacy, social studies and health to do what people in the real world do — synthesize the skills and knowledge in a meaningful way.

«We were all interested in district - level reforms and thought why not form a team and see how we could do in a high pressure, interesting situation with people who know a lot about urban school districts,» Spears explains.

People talk about urban schools all the time as if they are all challenging places filled with black and brown faces.

It used to be that when people talked about urban school success stories, Catholic schools were at the center of the discussion.