Sentences with phrase «for poor towns»

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The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

The bible Belt is also the lynching belt, the segregation belt, the military belt, the illiteracy belt - When I read the Gospels I read Jesus telling me about the kind of relationship i should have with God and my fellows - how I should live how I should behave - we are supposed to care for the poor not lower taxes for the rich and tell poor kids with no health insurance to suck it up - starting a war is not Christian regardless of the provocation Why do you need the 10 commandments on the wall in the courthouse when every town has multiple churches let the churches put up signs with the commandments - do you know what Moses did when he came down the mountain - he lead his most trusted men is a slaughter of 3000 Jews, read it

If there is among you a poor man, one of your brethren, in any of your towns within your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need....

It was the Disciples, after Jesus left this earth, who took up collections for the poor, as they went from town to town - they took up collections for FOOD - not «luxuries» like ipods, expensive tennis shoes, etc!

The Facebook group, which already has more than 4,000 likes, describes the impact the Elliotts have had on the town: «Support Dr. Elliott, «The doctor of the poor,» and his wife, helping people for over 40 years in Djibo, Burkina Faso, last kidnapped by AQIM.»

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin» in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long...

Now a transient place full of hipsters, bond traders, and actors, as well as actors and hipsters who are the children of bond traders, all searching for an «authentic» place to replace the Midwestern suburbs and rural towns they came to Brooklyn to escape, Brooklyn for me will always be Flatbush Avenue and Rudy Giuliani, Bernie (Goetz, not Madoff), and Ed Koch, block parties, radios murmuring Yankees games on back porches (all of us too poor to afford air conditioning, which kept us outside in that great urbanist semi-public space), the blackout of 1977 and the blizzard of 1995, Mickey Rivers and Bucky Dent, not to mention the wild cast of characters appearing in the Daily News, a paper that practically taught me to read.

Berkshire County had hills that Melville and Hawthorne had climbed, beautiful historic towns, grand houses, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Atheneum library, but to Sifton it seemed a poor trade for the modest farms and captivating friendliness of Heath: «It was more like exurbia for the power elite.»

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin» in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times.

Instead, the film would be about a clown who comes riding into town on a donkey; he's with a rather motley circus; he experiences the human failings of the circus people; he encounters Magnus, who wants to dominate and control; he substitutes himself for a poor human - puppet and is killed by Magnus.

One day a volunteer - in - mission group arrived to lay the foundation for a new church in Mella, one of the poorest towns in the Dominican Republic.

I grew in a town where the big local church spent huge amounts on «foreign missions», but would not assist with any services for the poor across town or in nearby rural areas.

«Lower income NSW families would be hit the hardest by this new tax while time - poor families would have to drive across town for a refund, when they currently recycle perfectly well out the front of their houses using yellow - topped bins.

People in towns, cities and remote villages manage it and educated or uneducated, rich or poor, young or old... people all over the world and for as long as time has existed have been having children.

Those skeptics (and others) point out that in the 1960s and 1970s, «project - based learning» was used in some low - income schools as a euphemism for the practice of having poor kids build Lego models and doodle in coloring books while the rich kids across town learned how to read and do math.

Someone who claims to be the mom has been active on ratings pages and left this message: «This is probably not the most ideal avenue for me to share my experience but after learning of her new office in my home town and stumbling on the article of how twisted my case became and the poor reviews years after my son's loss I can no longer stay silent.

While The Most Expensive Game in Town does a good job of dispelling the myth that youth sports has become so expensive that it is beyond the reach of inner city children and the poor, I wish the book had included a discussion of ways in which we can keep sports affordable for everyone.

For the town's landfill employees, module trailers are «run - down and in poor condition,» Schaffer said.

Zatz responded to Hinson that he too wanted to see a significant increase in grant funding for the town, saying, «We're a lively community, but we're pretty grant - poor.»

Meanwhile Michael Gove has been named Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, with pressure to reduce poor air quality in many towns and cities among his immediate priorities.

I will never accept the idea that it's ok for a child born in the poorest part of my city, Sheffield, to die more than a decade before a child born just across town.

Martin Ballowe, the supervisor, said last month that the town discovered that there was no building permit for the work after the assessment had been reduced by $ 91,000 for three years because of the poor condition of the property when Mule and Ballowe bought it.

Democratic supervisor candidate Laura Gillen, who has campaigned on ethics reform as well as limiting mass mailers, and proposes an opt - in program for residents who want to receive them, said, «This is just more evidence that the Town of Hempstead has become utterly dysfunctional under Tony Santino's poor leadership.»

The meat forms a cheap and accessible source of protein for poor people, as well as a source of income if the carcasses can be sold in the towns, where people are prepared to pay high prices for ape meat.

Her free technical assistance has helped level the playing field for hundreds of poor towns battling corporate giants.

The stories of Father Carlos and Dr. N'goy, the District Medical Officer who had first identified the epidemic, the reports at the Bumba hospital, the evident fear of the pilots and the townspeople of Bumba and their desperate attempts to flee the town... the apparent virulence of this disease, the high mortality — put together with the poverty and poor organization that characterized Zaire and the potential for contagion in Kinshasa — added up to a picture that Joel Breman, a CDC senior epidemiologist, summarized as «potentially the most deadly epidemic of the century.»

These are some recent outfits that I wore over the weekend for the last few weekends including when my Bestie Channell was in town a few weeks ago (we had a blast btw) some that were uploaded to Instagram using my iPhone and that didn't make it here to my blog (sorry for the poor pic quality on some of the pics).

Country doctor in a beautiful artist community town in the Blue Ridge, serving the poor, working as the medical examiner, doing house calls for the elderly and disabled, chasing hurricanes in a disaster team.

When his caravan breaks down in a poor Southern town, he tries to make the best of the situation by exploiting the community for all its worth.

He is a lowlife from that poor part of town where he and his criminal friends; Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie do nothing much, for there isn't much they can do.

From the «poor provincial town» to the dazzling ballroom, the movie is a larger - than - life feast for the eyes.

I've got family coming into town this afternoon, and since this week's poll had three runaway winners in «2001: A Space Odyssey,» «The Godfather» and «Pulp Fiction,» and I doubt three more hours will close the gap on the stragglers (poor «Jurassic Park»), I think it's time for a new installment.

Everything is a bother for poor Kelly, who roils from the single - engine flight into town, sprays clouds of Raid in the air to kill off mosquitos, slaps the genial local sheriff (Brendan Gleeson) twice for hauling a decapitated moose head on their boat, and generally acts like an uptight city slicker.

In it, a middle class couple with a young son discover he was switched at birth and must decide whether to keep raising him or to swap for their biological child who's been raised by poor parents in a small town.

The farm scenes in particular (the poor city is reduced to only a few locations (that look like sets actually) and seems much smaller than the town in Sunrise are really stunning: much of the film feels like Days Of Heaven was the film Murnau actually wanted to make (same location: wheat field in the upper midwest, attacked by a natural disaster, though Murnau doesn't appear to have the budget for his hailstorm whereas Malick could afford locusts).

The final shootout sequence in the ghost town is brilliantly done, both in the mise - en - scene (an empty wasteland of a town, devoid of both human and vegetal life (except for the poor Mexican couple who get caught in the crossfire) and in the camera movement.

A sobering segment on This American Life a few years ago documented the plight of Americans living in depressed towns — themselves plunked down in poor states — and struggling to fend for themselves in an economy that is systematically shedding every kind of job they know how to do.

For the «diverse adverse,» there are charters such as Old Town Academy, whose students are 65 percent white and 6 percent poor, in a district where only 23 percent of the public school students are white and 61 percent receive subsidized lunch.

And, «programs for the urban poor... stoke resentment and reinforce stereotypes among middle class taxpayers while enriching out - of - town owners and Wall Street investors of the for - profit housing industry, charter schools and development agencies while at the same time creating and sustaining a local class of often anti-union not - for - profit advocates.»

In a Student & Family Town Hall meeting held last evening by SNAPPS, an advocacy group in Atlanta for the South and Westside communities, attendees had the opportunity to hear from students and parents around grave concerns about equity, academic rigor, access to resources, being adequately prepared for college and careers, how schools add to the school to prison pipeline by fueling suspensions over counseling support and most importantly the poor connection and relationship between the District and South / Westside parents.

In 10 town hall meetings across the state this summer, people cited the same reasons for leaving teaching jobs: low pay, stress, and poor perception of the profession.

The result has been a loss of local control for Connecticut's poorest towns and no meaningful support for middle - class towns that have become even more reliant on regressive local property taxes.

In addition, rather than appropriately fund Connecticut's education grants, Malloy's budget plan seeks to redirect existing state aid for public schools to Connecticut's poorer towns by slashing grants to wealthier and middle income communities.

However, Windham has twice gone back to the budget trough to get money for «textbooks» ($ 750K) and STEM magnet ($ 200K) and they will go once more Tuesday for the Natchaug roof (despite town and board of ed officials agitating to nix any $ $ for poor Natchaug).

JBL radio speakers are poor and there is not a setting that will pair volume with increased sound so in town at 40 mph your radio volume is set at 12 for volume and on the highway at 70 mph you need to turn the radio up to a setting of 28.

You get four engine / transmission modes: Normal for around - town driving, Winter for driving in poor conditions, Sport for enthusiastic driving, and Track for obvious purposes.

The Nissan Quest, Chrysler Town & Country, and Dodge Caravan all received «POOR» ratings from the IIHS for the small overlap front crash test.

In contrast, the Town & Country was rated poor for small overlap protection, due to severe intrusion into the driver space.

The hybrid's electric - only mode allows you to drive silently through town for up to two miles, while on longer journeys the comfortable seats and soft suspension make the RXH an easy car to drive, with poor road surfaces and potholes causing little disturbance.

I've driven this same basic powertrain previously in Hyundai's Tucson Eco, an application I disparaged for its poor overall refinement — particularly at around - town speeds, where I found the transmission was prone to less - than - smooth gear changes.