Sentences with phrase «by rural folk»

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We've seen tremendous improvement in the economy and at the social level since 1992, the Rawlings regime and that of Kufour all contributed immensely to the growth we seeing, the Mahama administration has added value to what he inherited.The infrastructure development recorded under this government is the highest after Nkrumah, the improvement in the health and education sector can not be downplayed.Policies rolled out by the regime to close the yawning gap between the toiling but highly productive rural folks and city officials is commendable.The IMF director Christie Lagarde was right when she described what we called economic success between 2005 - 2008 as mediocre growth.The base of the economy was still shattered and now being built to restore the confidence of the people.

It's one of four such regional fairs celebrating the upscale rural lifestyle put on each year by the folks at Country Living magazine.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

Still, it is an affecting story, thanks in large part to Loach's long - standing empathy for the downtrodden, in this case the rural folk of County Leitrim, who find themselves kept down by imperious landowners and the Holy Mother Church.

Gemma Jones and Ian Hart play Johnny's parents, and despite a two - decade age gap between the actors, they are perfectly matched and in a sense, unrecognizable; they could very well be rural folks discovered by the director.

• Explore a vast, frigid Northern environment and battle the elements to survive • Complete the first of four chapters, each offering two to eight hours of gameplay • Enjoy the atmospheric soundtrack featuring music by Quebec folk band Curé Label • Experience the tale through the omniscient, third - person storyteller • Go back in time with a vintage look and feel reminiscent of 1970s rural communities

When writing his seminal work, «The Souls of Black Folk,» civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois created a series of data visualizations about black advancement in the United States — from circular charts that show taxable property owned by African Americans to others that tracked city - versus - rural populations.

Influenced by the folk aesthetics and history of her surroundings, Norton's work employs music, video, mixed media, and performance as her country - music alter ego Ninnie, in a manner that combines feminist thought with local and vernacular imagery inspired by the cultural traditions of the rural South and specifically of her native Kentucky.

People in this area have endured years of seeing Labour hatred of the countryside and the people who live there and the imposition by the urban elite of their will over rural folk (ban on fox hunting, closure of village post offices, closure of bus services, ruination of farmers, school closures, neglected roads etc etc).

«We're going to make you country - folk move to the towns and cities by prohibiting development (defined as doing anything to your land) in rural areas and protecting your property by regulation.»