Sentences with phrase «in a small village at»

Mather and her three colleagues spent 6 weeks in Chile, 3 of which they lived in a schoolhouse in a small village at the foot of the mountain.

Dr. Mathai: I grew up in a small village at the foot of Mount Kenya with mostly my mum and dad, being the last born with a 13 year difference between my elder sister and me.

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She lived in a small village in Pakistan that was invaded by the Taliban, and at age 11 she utilized a cell phone to call a BBC reporter who wrote up a blog that would bring awareness to unknown atrocities being committed in her area, the Swat Valley.

James Maclean, an engineer at the office who happens to be from Hawkestone — a small town north of Barrie — tested it out on his village and added in all sorts of stuff.

Iranian hackers infiltrated the computer system at a small dam in a quiet village 20 miles from New York City in 2013, according to a report on Monday.

He rented a closet sized «bedroom» in my small East Village apartment, along with his childhood friend who ended up being the best man at our wedding.

Don't know how old she was that Musa married to at... But understand that females at hotter areas become ripe at earlier age and if body was built well enough and had her monthly period coming early age than she is ready minimum 9 years old... There are still in some small cities, villages and remote areas families are having their daughters marrying at such age to men that could reach upto 80 years old...!

I am a professor at Catholic University of Louvain and I am also engaged in militant activities including with the Amis du Monde Diplomatique (Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique monthly), as an organiser of the Forum of the Small Villages of the World and the «Groupe de Lisbonne»...»

For Cook, that place, where they were supposed to learn about how to communicate the Gospel was, in fact, standing in the way of the Gospel, at least for the people in that small village.

You can still catch it at Christmas in a village church when a small child with a strong country accent grapples for the first time with the nativity story in the King James Bible, and the music of the eternal flows into the silent building through his hesitating tongue.

But before turning to Jesus» sayings, let me at least say what one can infer from Q about his life: He grew up in a small village of lower or southern Galilee called in (Q 4:16) Nazara, but always called Nazareth elsewhere in the canonical Gospels, a hamlet perhaps too small even to have had a local synagogue in which Jesus might have learned to read the Hebrew scriptures.

The view that Jesus was a village farmer who also has practiced part - time carpentry in his native village and immediate surroundings as corroborated by the parabolic emphases has been confirmed by recent archaeological discoveries.31 Recent explorations have revealed that Nazareth was a small agricultural village that came into being in the 3rd century BCE.32 Settlements in Nazareth were mostly found right at the top, whereas in the nearby «three northern spurs» they were to be found largely «on the slopes, lower ridges, and just off the basins.

Wouldn't it be nice, he writes, «if all of that eerily unsettled rural countryside were instead dense with diversified 100 - acre farmsteads, with their grain and hay rotations, livestock and pastures embedded in a landscape of protected forest, wetland, and prairie,» and in turn supporting an infinity of small villages, connected to the world via all our modern communications pipelines so that people could work at a variety of jobs, but remain connected to the real world by sheer immersion in a particular landscape.

Some of my favorite food from my travels would be Swiss Bircher Muesli served at a guesthouse in a small village near Konstanz, Portuguese pastéis de natas from Pastelaria Aloma in Lisbon (or Café Galao in Berlin) and attiéké, a side dish originally from Côte d'Ivoire, made from grated and fermented cassava.

Yet, perhaps the most potentially repulsive, at least for Western tastes, of grilled meats are found in small poor villages in rural areas: snakes grilled whole, and, on a more intense level, monitor lizards (there are six feet - long lizards, thick as an arm) which are skinned and grilled.

When Edd was young, he lived in a small village called Thackley, and at the heart of the village was a fairly traditional bakery, serving simple, old - fashioned British baking.

When I was young, I lived in a small village called Thackley, and at the heart of the village was a fairly traditional bakery, serving simple, old - fashioned British baking.

Of course this takes place in a small Mexican village, at the beginning of the last century, so everything is homemade and manually done around the kitchen, but to this day, the mole has remained notorious for being extremely laborious and hard to make.

We will spend the second half of the trip at Pietrantica, which is a converted farmhouse guesthouse with an organic garden in the small village of Decontra.

In a small room in the apartment complex assigned to the Chinese in the athletes» village later that same day, Wu Chung - yuan, the man in charge of international relations at the Games for the All - China Sports Federation, said that everyone was happy that FINA had given its blessing, and that nothing had happened to make anyone think that Taiwan was anything more than just an island province off the coast of ChinIn a small room in the apartment complex assigned to the Chinese in the athletes» village later that same day, Wu Chung - yuan, the man in charge of international relations at the Games for the All - China Sports Federation, said that everyone was happy that FINA had given its blessing, and that nothing had happened to make anyone think that Taiwan was anything more than just an island province off the coast of Chinin the apartment complex assigned to the Chinese in the athletes» village later that same day, Wu Chung - yuan, the man in charge of international relations at the Games for the All - China Sports Federation, said that everyone was happy that FINA had given its blessing, and that nothing had happened to make anyone think that Taiwan was anything more than just an island province off the coast of Chinin the athletes» village later that same day, Wu Chung - yuan, the man in charge of international relations at the Games for the All - China Sports Federation, said that everyone was happy that FINA had given its blessing, and that nothing had happened to make anyone think that Taiwan was anything more than just an island province off the coast of Chinin charge of international relations at the Games for the All - China Sports Federation, said that everyone was happy that FINA had given its blessing, and that nothing had happened to make anyone think that Taiwan was anything more than just an island province off the coast of China.

I carve and paint birds at home in a small village near Exeter in Devon.

There is a little tourist train that runs twice daily from Guardalavaca and Aldea Taina (a small Native village and farm house), with intermediary stops at all the major resorts, beaches, and tourist attractions in between.

She practiced as a doula in New York City during her midwifery training, and she spent two years in Benin, West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer working at a small village maternity center.

The board also annexed one house at 0N433 Cumnor Ave.. That home is in a small unincorporated neighborhood just north of the Union Pacific railroad tracks that became completely surrounded by village boundaries after trustees incorporated 29 houses along Crescent Boulevard from 1995 to 1999, and then annexed an additional 15 houses on Cumnor, Scott and Clifton Avenues and Ellynwood Drive in 2002.

Many country lawyers worked in small freestanding offices like the Law Office at Old Sturbridge Village, built for John McClellan of Woodstock, Connecticut.

Phillips is in her second term as mayor of the small Nassau County village, having worked for several decades at Goldman Sachs.

but the failure of a business in a small village can devastate a local community and urgent action is needed to give relief to these businesses at the heart of village life.

He formally launched his bid in Tivoli, a small village about 50 miles south of Albany where, in 1995 at age 19, he became the youngest mayor in the United States at the time.

The president, Nana Akufo - Addo who gave the keynote address at the 33rd Farmers» Day celebration in Kumasi on December 1, 2017 said that in line with the government's target of promoting all - year - round cropping, 320 small dams and dugout in 64 districts in the Northern Region have been earmarked to be developed under the One - Village - One - Dam project.

«About ten years ago, when the transport system in the country was terrible, especially at a small village called Kam 19, hardly would you see a vehicle plying on our road, the distance from the houses to the mortuary was far, so I was carrying dead bodies, those days I was charging GH cents 20.00 per a body, it was very heavy but I needed the money so couldn't resist the job.

Another day of work at a small village clinic in northern Alaska was coming to a close.

At a recent ceremony in a small village in eastern Madagascar, a group of concerned elders presented a request to their ancestors.

The skeleton was apparently discovered in a small leather sack in a deserted village in Chile's Atacama Desert (giving the specimen its name, Ata), though the study's senior author, Garry Nolan, an immunologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, acknowledges that its history is «a bit murky.»

It's a simple model — for instance, it does not account for zoning restrictions or for the fact that some cities, such as London, emerged as polycentric entities hundreds of years ago when several smaller villages consolidated — but it is still a useful model for exploring polycentricity, says Michael Batty, an urban planner at University College London, who wasn't involved in the study.

We passed tiny villages of wooden huts, some new and ornate, others old and simple with bright blue window frames winking at us Everybody has a small plot of vegetables growing in the rich black soil.

At aged just 15, Arnold began lifting weights to get bigger and fill out as he didn't want to be seen as the «skinny kid» at school or in the small Austrian village where he grew uAt aged just 15, Arnold began lifting weights to get bigger and fill out as he didn't want to be seen as the «skinny kid» at school or in the small Austrian village where he grew uat school or in the small Austrian village where he grew up.

Settle in the beautiful small village of Rishikesh, our school is surrounded by the enthralling Himalayas and situated at a walking distance from the enchanting Ganga.

The hotel is set in a small village, at the top of a hill.

Upon arrival at Sherwood Village Spas in Mississauga (there's a Humbertown Village Spa located in Etobicoke as well), the location looked to be quite small in a fairly large plaza space, that is, until I stepped inside.

At one point, my husband and I paid $ 2,650 for a very small one - bedroom illegal sublet in the East Village, really far from the subway.

By the end of their dinner at a small Italian restaurant in New York's West Village, Leah is getting antsy to part ways with her boyfriend Ryan, so that Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a

See if the signs point to your marriage being over at WomansDay By the end of their dinner at a small Italian restaurant in New York's West Village, Leah is getting antsy to part ways with her boyfriend Ryan, so that

There's little doubt, though, that Kubrick's solid eye for compelling visuals is firmly in place even at this nascent stage in his career, and it's worth noting, too, that the movie boasts a very small handful of genuinely compelling sequences (eg Mazursky's unhinged character is left alone with a woman from a nearby village).

The nominal hero, a 12 - year - old aspiring musician named Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez), lives in a small Mexican village that still worships at the gilded feet of Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt), a local - turned - internationally famous crooner who dominated both the airwaves and movie screens during his heyday in the 1930s and»40s.

Alexander Payne's Downsizing opened the Venice Film Festival and while the film itself is a polarizing, uneven story, it boasts a powerful, touching and funny performance by Hong Chau who plays an immigrant and activist who protests the Vietnamese government's acts against her small village and ends up shrunken and placed in a TV set at a Target store in...

The trouble with that is even in their attempt at genuine kindness, the National Union of Mineworkers are reluctant to accept the LGSM's support because they don't want to be associated with the gay community, so the activist group instead decides that they'll bring their donations directly to a small mining village in Wales named Onllwyn and it's here where the forging of communities makes its memorable punch.

I saw a beautiful movie at Cannes on Saturday night — an artful, surprising and thrillingly intelligent story about a few women trying to make a difference, forging bonds of solidarity in quiet defiance of the repressive, small - minded men in their rural village.

At that time, Antonio and Fabio were inspired by an article in a local Sicilian newspaper about a mafia kidnapping and decided for their second film they would like to explore this incident's impact on the small Sicilian village while simultaneously evoking children's fables.

In his only Oscar - winning performance, Bogart stars as Charlie Allnut, a reprobate who uses his little battered steamer, The African Queen, to run supplies to small villages in East Africa at the onset of WWIn his only Oscar - winning performance, Bogart stars as Charlie Allnut, a reprobate who uses his little battered steamer, The African Queen, to run supplies to small villages in East Africa at the onset of WWin East Africa at the onset of WWI.

Set in a small Spanish village somewhere outside Madrid, it at least affords Farhadi the opportunity to engage with a more socially open and vivacious milieu than his films set in Iran typically allow.