Sentences with phrase «called rural villages»

Indeed, some so - called rural villages in China boast steel mills and factories, while one, Beishanmen, near the city of Xi'an, recently erected a 23 - storey apartment tower.

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So he set out to replicate the results, conducting another so - called Hole In the Wall experiment in a poor rural village, where the kids didn't even speak English.
Modi's unveiled an initiative in July that called for creating a national fiber optic network to provide broadband Internet for every citizen, bringing cellular connectivity to rural villages, and investing in India's electronics manufacturing sector.
Whilst showering praise on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for scrapping the «nuisance levy» imposed by the previous government on head porters (kayayei) and for its determination to stem the tide of rural - urban migration through the one - district - one - factory and one - village - one - dam policies, the organisation also called for a probe into the running of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA).
I grew up in rural England in a village of 400 people, then when I was 8 we moved to a town of 2000 people in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California, called Nevada City.
The station serving the rural village of Goathland played the role of Hogsmeade Station at which the Hogwarts Express calls in the Harry Potter film adaptations.
We are located in a rural area at the highest peak of the village of Uga, called El Morro, near the volcanoes of the Timanfaya National Park and the vineyards of La Geria, in the most idyllic setting.
Cory in Britain we have a very tedious sitcom on radio 4 (based on characters in a rural village, farmers etc) called The Archers.
A pair of Armenian researchers who locals call the «stork girls» are recruiting «nest neighbors» in rural villages to help them monitor the country's population of the large wading birds, which have traditionally been a symbol of luck and success in the former Soviet Republic.For the past four years, ArmeniaNow reports, young scientists Lusine Stepanyan and Maro Kochinyan have been visiting «virtually every area where storks nest in Armenia [to] distribute special calendars among the residents living near the nests.»
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