Sentences with phrase «from large towns»

Students from large towns and low - poverty schools experience few significant gains from their school tour of an art museum.

About a quarter live in cities, but most are in rural areas, often hundreds of kilometres from a large town.

He's big until he has to go up against the 6» 6 ″ players from a larger town.

There are many diverse locations and geographies within Belize, but Ambergris Caye is the only one that combines the advantages of being on a Caribbean island within sight of the barrier reef, with the many amenities and activities that you would expect from a larger town.

Found in a natural harbour just a 45 - minute drive from the larger town of Split there's plenty to keep you occupied, whether you prefer to sit back and relax on the beach or make the most of the many activities and attractions in this area.

Silvermist Guesthouse is only a 20 km drive away from the large town of Tzaneen where any shopping, medical or transport needs can be met.

Quiet and peaceful, yet only fifteen minutes from the larger towns such as Alcala Real and Pinos Puente.

The legal markets in Kentucky range from larger towns such as Louisville, Frankfort, Lexington, Ashland and Elizabethtown to smaller towns and countless rural communities.

Not exact matches

With a net worth in excess of $ 66 billion, Amancio Ortega is the second - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

One, from an insurance adjuster who handled a large property management firm in Edmonton, was a contract to clean 408 units around town — representing upward of $ 2 million.

Amancio Ortega is the fourth - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

These conditions introduced in 1990 are largely arbitrary, allowing the 50 percent deviation for constituencies which exceed 20,000 square kilometres, are in excess of 150 kilometres away from the Legislative Assembly Building, include no town larger than 8,000 people (the original bill required no town larger than 4,000 people), include an Indian reserve or Métis settlement and share a border with the provincial boundary.

The post office in the romantically named Colorado town will then remove your addressed envelope from the larger one and stamp your valentine with a love poem before sending it on.

A large group of young adults from the City Church of San Diego said they were in town on a mission trip.

But along with this large crowd of people, there came these Pharisees and teachers of the law from every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem.

Moving from a small town where one was surrounded by friends and clan to a large city where «people are lonesome together» is a «detribalizing,» shaking experience.

The community I call Corinth, 1 the town in which I spent my sabbatical year, has changed during the last thirty years from a rural, rather backward county seat town into a satellite community for a large metropolitan area.

He was his mother's only son, and she was a widow; and with her was a large crowd from the town.

As they constituted such a large number and always voted in a block, Smith used this power to wrest from the Illinois legislature unheard - of powers for his town.

According to officials, a large number of them were brought back into town early Wednesday — reports are unclear on how many specifically, ranging from 76 to 110.

I was mere days away from giving birth to our second son but I was sure to get my large self down to the park across town where the hunt was being held.

Following a ceremony at Gaugin's gravesite (complete with «Amazing Grace» on bagpipes) above the sleepy port town of Atuona and a headstone's throw from the final repose of Belgian singer / composer Jacques Brel, a large tahoua (traditional Polynesian gathering space) the celebration swelled to welcome over a thousand islanders, dignitaries, Gaugin relatives, assorted visitors and even a few locals.

The Town Hall will take place on center stage on the trade show floor and will feature top executives from three of the beverage industry's largest players: J. Alexander M. (Sandy) Douglas, president and chief operating officer, North America Group, The Coca - Cola Company; Jim Johnston, president, concentrate sales, Dr Pepper Snapple Group; and Tom Bené, president, Pepsi - Cola North American Beverages.

The Town Hall will take place on center stage on the trade show floor and will feature top executives from three of the beverage industry's largest players...

The facilities that bought and processed his apples and those of other Sonoma County farmers went under as national produce companies turned increasingly to the cheap concentrate from China, and by 2004, Manzana Products Company, a large gray aerodrome - like facility, was the last processor in town.

I've spent the last 10 years living down the road from the largest farmers» market in the state and have watched as the restaurant scene in this unassuming college town continues to flourish.

The annual picnic races at the small town of Tomingley drew a large crowd from far and wide for a great day of racing and fashion.

Leeds were a team with real history, with a large fanbase, from a one - club town.

- Pictures of supporters with the Play - Off trophy - See a large selection of images from the afternoon - Town fans enjoy their day at PPG Canalside

The party won control of 11 town halls and a large district in the port city of Marseille in municipal elections on Sunday, more than double its record from the 1990s.

When Bob Bilton and his wife decided to move up from their former Buffalo Grove house to a new one with a finished basement for their soon - to - be-teenagers and a larger yard for their four - legged kids, the schools kept them in town.

The FSB is offering support to local campaigns across the country to protect high streets from draconian parking and planning policies that discriminate in favour of large, out - of - town supermarkets.

A 58 - year - old woman visiting Mount Saint Mary College's Desmond Campus in the Town of the Newburgh became the Hudson Valley's third storm - related fatality and second from Orange County when a tree fell on her vehicle, police said.Lisa Resnick, of Rosendale in Ulster County, was killed around 5 p.m. Tuesday as she was sitting in her vehicle on the campus when a large tree struck the...

Some WNY towns are doing all they can to prevent large wind farms from blowing into their borders.

That's the main purpose of England's 14 Green Belts - to protect our largest and most historic towns and cities from merging into one endless metropolis.

Prosecutors alleged Percoco turned to bribes as a way to pay for rising personal costs, driven in part by a move from a modest Staten Island neighborhood to a larger home in an upscale town in Westchester County near where Cuomo lives in the house of his girlfriend, Sandra Lee.

One such issue Pritchard and other Harrison Democrats have been vocal about is preventing the zoning text amendment that the town board passed in May, which allows for the building of large senior living facilities in residentially zoned areas, and has drawn petitions and protests from some Harrison residents.

Members of the Council represent many of the cities, towns, and villages within Erie County, as well as 12 at - large members from throughout the County.

An LIA flier bills Santino and Romaine as «supervisors from the two largest towns in New York State.»

The message from UKIP is that Corbyn Labour is unpatriotic, an enemy of the armed services and supportive of «uncontrolled mass immigration» — this in a town with a large Muslim population where bitter race riots took place in 2001.

Faced with a larger than desired compost pile at the Southold Town compost facility on Cox Lane, the Town Board cut the price it charges to commercial users — such as landscapers and farmers — to buy screened compost from the tTown compost facility on Cox Lane, the Town Board cut the price it charges to commercial users — such as landscapers and farmers — to buy screened compost from the tTown Board cut the price it charges to commercial users — such as landscapers and farmers — to buy screened compost from the towntown.

«The fact is tha t the ink is not even dry on this bill, and everyone in town is still getting fundraising requests from members of the conference committee and all sorts of other people who were beating up on Wall Street,» an official at a large bank said, citing Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D - N.Y.) and Paul Kanjorski (D - Pa.)

The Lizza company has received tens of millions of dollars in contracts from Oyster Bay Town, Nassau County, and New York State, and is a large - scale contributor to both Republican and Democratic candidates, but more heavily to Republicans, according to records.

Following two massive snowstorms that left large portions of the Hudson Valley in the dark, elected officials, from Congress to town supervisors, have berated utility companies that serve the lower Hudson Valley for their response to the first storm.

There are a couple of larger employers, plus the county, town and village; and also businesses galore if people want to change jobs / try and supplement their income: from Walmart to Price Chopper to Tractor Supply to Sears to Ace Hardware to Pizza Hut to McDonalds to Best Western to three banks to several gas stations to two diners to two liquor stores to several restaurants...

Cuomo only asking the people to support the cap without any mention of mandate relief is the hamburger bun without the burger and simply fuels the opposition's (they say mandate relief before tax cap) claim that tax cap alone is a big - government scheme to take power away from and defund local towns and school districts and increase the power of the larger state government which created the property tax problem in the first place by passing the mandates which are the biggest property tax drivers and now refuses to change those mandates.

Such as system would have town board members directly elected from specific parts of the town — instead of an at - large system.

[25] The town is divided into three wards: Audley — named after Audley End House — represents the western area of Saffron Walden including Audley End; Castle takes its name from Saffron Walden Castle and includes Little Walden and the large rural area north of the town; Shire (formerly Plantation) represents the southern area of the town.

Grants ranged from $ 52,500 to $ 350,000, and were awarded to municipalities as large as New York City, with a population of 8.5 million and an estimated 9,692 vacant properties, and the Town of Hempstead, with a population of 760,000 and an estimated 1,286 vacant properties; and as small as the Town of Ticonderoga, with a population of 5,042 and an estimated 104 vacant properties.

In Ulster County, some town supervisors have taken issue with criticism from the County Executive's Office about municipal budgets getting larger despite the county taking over $ 20 million worth of welfare and election costs.