Sentences with phrase «being a rural person»

Nearly a third of all food is lost or wasted «between the farm and the fork» and it is the rural people in developing countries who suffer this loss the most.

It's rural people meeting the modern age and getting thrown out.»

Not one game is going to resemble another as you can focus on being a rural person, a family person, a hero or a businessman.

Not exact matches

Is it as simple as the ongoing contempt that many rural people have for urban people, and vice versa?

A subsidiary of NGP, Veriown, is transforming the way people in rural India access the modern power grid.

But it's still a $ 1 - billion industry that employs 19,000 people, many in rural regions.

This is because a person living in the heavy smog of L.A. will have adapted to that environment and metabolize a different set of biomarkers than a rural dweller.

In a rural area that counts Elvis Presley among its native sons, the drop in gasoline prices also was leaving more money in people's pockets.

We don't know where those people are; Rural counties are incentivized to overreport population to receive more benefits from higher levels of government, while city districts report lower figures to hit population control targets.

For example, as more and more people move out of rural areas and into cities, the transportation infrastructures in cities are being stressed like never before.

«For a person like me from a rural state, a lot of times that retaliation is in regard to agriculture.

Seven in 10 of the world's poor live in remote or rural areas, where access to medical services is sharply limited or not available at all: 5 billion people can't reach or afford essential surgical care, from emergency caesarian sections to cancer surgery.

Faber is one of the most gloomy people you'll meet in the investment world, constantly issuing warnings about where you should live if the war comes (rural farmland), and what will happpen to the dollar (it will be worth less than toilet paper).

However, it's actually a «go - anywhere, do - anything, self - powered mobile Wi - Fi device» that many hope will someday connect people in the most rural regions with the rest of the world.

The bank, which is the fifth - largest rural commercial bank by assets in China, priced at HK$ 5.10 a share after quoting HK$ 4.99 - HK $ 5.27, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

He said many people are under the impression mining is a largely rural and remote industry but much of the traffic in the Port of Vancouver is connected to the mining industry.

There are millions of people who don't have access, either because they can't afford a tech device with internet capability or they live in a region that's too rural for capable Wi - Fi.

Exposure to pollution is associated with the increasing population of cities, but people who live in rural areas are also at risk.

These bad - news boiler rooms use the world's cheapest labor to reach a terribly skewed (and largely screwed) population of old, rural and homebound people who are also the only ones with the time and any interest in talking to them.

In this episode, YPO member Sunil Lalvani, Group Managing Director of the Global Products Group Ltd. and Founder and CEO of Project Maji, shares how he is going to bring sustainable clean water to millions of people in the rural areas of Africa.

The relaxation of the Hukou system means people can move from rural areas to cities where economic growth is vibrant.

And there's growing evidence that when mining debris and waste gets into water supplies, the toxic metals can have dire health impacts for the people and mostly rural communities living nearby.

«Certainly working moms are kind of the most visible, but it's a misconception that that's the only audience that's interested... Both working moms and dads, and also people with health issues, or who are [taking care of] people with health issues, people who live in rural or locally depressed economies, military spouses, people who want to travel, and certainly millennials «-- are just some of the categories of people seeking job flexibility.

This is an especially great benefit, Sara notes in the interview, for «people who live in rural economies or depressed economies and aren't able to find jobs.»

Unlike rural Michigan, large numbers of people live or work close to Burrard Inlet or shorelines that might be impacted by a bitumen accident.

Rural Americans also are broadly skeptical that the federal government is fair or effective at improving people's economic situations.

For people living in rural areas, where wait times for driverless Uber or any kind of public transit are completely unreasonable, yet don't have money to burn an extra $ 10k on their car to make it autonomous, will continue to buy old - fashioned human - driven cars with gas pedals and steering wheels long into the future — and will not accept not being able to drive their cars into cities.

«Northern and rural communities have been left behind by Christy Clark because she puts rewarding friends and donors above the best interests of ordinary people.

It's certainly a more extreme statement than Obama's 2008 claim that people in rural areas weren't voting for him because they «cling» to guns and religion.

On the spending side of the ledger, the priorities have been agriculture support (after two weak monsoons), rural development spending, infrastructure investments and a massive structural shift to direct benefit transfers deposited in the bank accounts of beneficiaries — made possible by the extraordinary biometric identity card program (Aadhaar) covering 950 million people, and the impressive financial inclusion initiative which has opened over 200 million new bank accounts for impoverished families.

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.

A day earlier, reports surfaced that aadhaar information through EPFO has been leaked, after previous reports of data leak of 8.9 Mn people which came to light through an Aadhaar whistleblower Srinivas Kodali, who shared the screenshots of Aadhaar data details of MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) beneficiaries.

Right wing politics is failing in Alberta and the last hold out is rural Alberta, but how long will it be before most rural people would like to have a seat at government as opposed of making a lot of noise that gets very little attention.

Sutton Fell said others who appreciate and benefit from flexibility are people who live in rural or depressed economies, military spouses, people who want to travel, freelancers, and millennials.

The first is the redrawing of Highwood's boundaries where new electoral lines have transformed the riding from a large rural land base to a small, dense area of people that more closely resembles an urban riding.

I am minister of 27 years and have Pastored times in rural churches where I had to depend on God because people did not have money.

Now in Africa, most people are rural, religious, and fairly conservative when it comes to sexual behavior, despite lurid stereotypes of oversexed African men forcing themselves on women and girls without a thought.

Besides, if you want to reduce religion to social work, there's a religious group in Afghanistan that provides counseling and mediation services for people in rural areas, as well as free treatment for people struggling with drug addiction.

I can remember standing in front of my church (about 60 people at the time) back in 2009 and boldly declaring that God was going to use our church to reach thousands of people for his kingdom in rural communities through a multi-site strategy.

There is an urgent need for an alternative form of development that meets the basic needs of the rural people.

Bonnie also pointed to a 1975 case in which a rural Virginia woman killed her own aunt - the person who had raised and loved her - because she believed her aunt had been possessed by the devil.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

Indian Rural Gospel Mission is primarily dedicated to reach the un-reached people it was started in 1993 and registered as a society and also trust in 2006.

I'm as.suming you live in a rural area which makes you want to believe what you said to be the absolute truth, but I'll help you out of ignorance, there are good and bad people everywhere, christian or non-christian and when people «go to the country» to rest, it isn't because city life is so amoral and horrible, it's because its fast paced.

To front - load the story by saying people were being treated in animal stalls, and only later point out it was a free clinic held in a county fairground (rural area, large crowd... likely the only suitable place that passed health and safety requirements for such an event), and to not mention that many if not most of those taking advantage of the free medical care were likely farm workers and not here legally... is beyond poor reporting.

I live in a rural area and am disabled so this seems the best way to befriend people.

Secularized, urbanized, technological people are not helped by biblical, pastoral, and rural references and illustrations.

Moreover, the two major American parties are not primarily competitive interest groups, with one, for example, representing capital and the other labor, or one reflecting rural interests and the other the interests of urban people.

So begins Pope Michael, a weird, intriguing, and distressing documentary about a young man in a small town in rural eastern Kansas who, after being elected by six people, a group that included his parents and himself, claimed to be the Bishop of Rome.