Sentences with phrase «for urban people»

For urban people, it's all about the text message.

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

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What's next In March Wanelo added the ability for retailers to claim store pages on the site; Urban Outfitters, Free People and ModCloth are among those that jumped on board early.

The 2013 Hult Prize, which kicks off the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting for heads of state and leaders of businesses and nonprofits, will award $ 1 million to the sole startup idea that best secures food for undernourished communities — particularly for the 200 million people who live in urban slums.

«In as little as 10 years, we could have products on the market that revolutionize urban travel for millions of people,» said Lyasoff.

Urban Outfitters acquired a pizzeria chain last year as part of a plan to build complexes that feature a variety of its stores — it also owns Anthropologie and Free People — restaurants, and event spaces for concerts and the like.

«This is a passion project for most people,» said Claire Nelson, owner of the Bureau of Urban Living, an accessories boutique, and one of the organizers of a loose network of local entrepreneurs that functions like a support group.

Public transit is a key piece of urban infrastructure, important for getting people where they want to go while limiting congestion and pollution.

Images of the flooded metropolises of Houston, Jacksonville, and San Juan with overtopped dams, billowing sewage, and flooded homes show that torrential rain can be one of the most devastating consequences of hurricanes, especially in urban areas where concrete makes it harder for water to drain and where people can drown.

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.

Jurisdictions have turned to mobility pricing to address a specific or combination of objectives, such as managing congestion in rapidly growing urban areas to facilitate the movement of people and goods, generating revenue for transportation infrastructure projects, maintenance and improvements, or environmental reasons.

So Dolly and Keith Urban should sue Michelle Obama for her insults to country music and people who play as being stupid?

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

In 1095, Urban II called for the first crusade to reclaim the Holy Land and the people responded, Deus lo Volt» God wills it!

As we move into the»90s with an economic structure that is killing poor people, a «war against drugs» that is a racist war against the urban poor, an unapologetic «post-feminist» contempt for women and girls and a mounting ecological crisis, we will need as much as ever to be able to create liberation in the midst of suffering.

In Europe in 1095, Pope Urban II put out the call for Christians to liberate Jerusalem from people «absolutely alien to God.»

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.

As the changing socio - economic conditions of nineteenth - century urban, industrial America demanded of the church a reassessment of its understanding of people in society, it was the Social Gospel movement which arose to take seriously the reality of corporate sin and the need for corporate response.

When these are neglected and money is pumped instead into industrial development, the males move to the cities, destroying the communities which have sustained the people for thousands of years and creating huge urban slums.

Nor was anything like half the world's human population crowded into urban areas, with fewer chances for self - sustainability than people on the land have when times turn desperate.

In the main stream, many congregations push for assimilation and homogenization in the name of «urban missiology» and is usually said as, «Whatever it takes to reach people.»

Our view of Spirit - filled people must include Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity, and the 1,300 congregations who join the Spirit's pleading for decent housing for the impoverished urban poor.

Somehow I doubt the experience as mayor in a new suburb in the west would really qualify for dealing with urban issues that come with millions of people in cities now aging into centuries.

Mark Anthony Mitchell, Sr., is Senior Pastor of Atlanta Urban Foursquare Church and Executive Director of Jesus for Justice Poor People's Campaign, a nonprofit community development corporation.

Revd Paul Hackwood, executive chair of Church Urban Fund, said: «This exercise shows us how important it is for churches to spend time listening to people in their communities.

Observers like Fey felt urban renewal represented the best hope for the «frightened, disadvantaged people» in the cities, but they possessed a limited vision for how it might be accomplished.

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.

(5) Inner - city urban ministry either as a one - year resident or one day a week for thirty weeks to mingle with the people wherever they are, to engage the power structure of the community, to explore the economic and political strategies of community planning, to discover the potentialities for a ministry to total needs of persons who are deprived or in stress.

In the urban centers there were cathedral churches staffed by a considerable corps of the clergy responsible for the cure of souls in the area and sometimes, as in the case of Chantry priests, committed to saying masses for designated persons living or dead.

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

Fields White works to bring farmers to the city and people to the table at three weekly farmers» markets in urban San Diego while raising funds for local community improvement districts.

The Urban Food Heroes award, launched by London Food Link and UnLtd, the foundation for social entrepreneurs, is shining a light on these inspiring people.

Ahearn was also the first person I photographed for Urban Exodus, my project documenting the the lives of modern - day homesteaders, which I started in 2013.

Stark is especially interested in drought - resistant, low - carbon - footprint wild edible plants that could serve as a source of fresh, affordable, and nutritious food for people living in urban food deserts.

People who live in urban areas such as New York, Boston or New Jersey can note that there are specific styles of window guards approved for use for building codes and home builder's regulations.

The village has 1.6 acres of park space for every 10,000 residents — far short of the National Recreation and Park Association's recommendation of 10 acres per 10,000 people, John Mac Manus, of urban planning contractor Altamanu, told the board.

So, if your holiday shopping list includes someone with a great sense of style or a penchant for hats you can find Brooklyn Hat Co. creations at Fred Segal, Kitson, Free People, Rulala, and Urban Outfitters.

Every day, we provide a welcoming gateway for people to better understand our urban environment and what it means to them.

The author has followed some of urban America's poorest young people through their secondary school careers over some years, tracking their rocky road towards higher education and revealing how their teachers are compensating for the missing investment in their early years by fostering what Tough sums up as «character».

An 1884 newspaper illustration, for example, depicted a skeleton disguised as a fruit seller offering produce to little children, suggesting that raw, unboiled fruits and vegetables led to cholera.17 The actual culprit, especially in such turn - of - the - century urban metropolises as New York City, with its inadequate, overloaded water and sewer systems, was most likely bacteria residing on the outside of the produce, or contaminated water or milk that happened to be ingested, rather than anything in the produce itself.18 Given the laxative effect of fruits and vegetables if consumed in excess, however, it is understandable that people assumed fresh produce might contribute to diseases with symptoms that included diarrhea.

This is compact in size and is perfect for the people residing in the urban areas and where the space is less to keep things.

It wasn't until recently that I learned there is a phrase for collecting and using other people's fruits and vegetables - it's called urban fruit (or vegetable) gleaning.

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».

Urbanists have for some time now been drawing attention to the «over-scripting» of public space in modern urban regeneration schemes, so that all conflicts and loose ends are designed out of the development, and people are subtly organised and choreographed into patterns of use and timetables decided by others.

Ben Carson the Housing and Urban Development secretary introduced a new proposal Wednesday that would increase rent payments for more than two million people living in public housing.

As the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome said, fuel poverty occurs across the country, in urban areas as well as rural, and affects the young, the old, single people and families.

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Before the recent decades of economic growth there could have been some space for a urban elite against rural people type of movement in East Thrace and Instabul.

Like every person interviewed for this story, Mr. Sevillia blamed the dearth of federal urban investment on Congress.

She took a jab at the racial makeup of Trump's administration and noted that Trump's pick for secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Ben Carson, is the only person of color in the mix.