Sentences with phrase «large rural areas of the country»

While many of the nation's children have access to super-fast cable and fiber internet because they live in urban areas, large rural areas of the country have broadband internet only because of satellite internet technology.

Not exact matches

However, the North - West Thames region was large and diverse in terms of geography and demography, so there is no reason to suppose that the results are completely atypical of the rest of the country, with the possible exception of remote rural areas.

It contains the large cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh and the central belt, plus Aberdeen, Inverness and Dundee, as well as vast rural areas in the highlands, the border country and Orkney and Shetland.

Almost uniformly, in every country on Earth, the larger the population of a metropolitan area or the rural equivalent, the more productive it is per capita, and the lower its population is, the less productive it is per capita.

Institutions of direct democracy, including decentralised decision - making powers in rural and urban areas, need to be set up or strengthened in all countries; where decision - making at larger levels requires representation, there should be robust mechanisms of transparency, accountability, and redressal (including recall) that are responsive to the institutions of direct grassroots democracy.

In many of the country's largest urban school districts, such as Detroit, Cleveland, and Indianapolis, the dropout rate is as high as 60 percent, and rates are similarly high in many rural areas.

The use of 360 - degree video technology will bring adoptable pets to life for adopters, draw attention to pets in large, small & rural areas of the country and make the pet search process more engaging vs. looking at pictures.

Opening: «DE / CONSTRUCTING CHINA: Selections from the Asia Society Museum Collection» at Asia Society Museum China has eclipsed the U.S. as the world's largest trading nation, and this exhibition looks back on the way this success has affected — and how it will alter — the physical and social landscape of the country (in particular, the socioeconomic divide between urban and rural areas).

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.»

The legal markets here in Oakland County Michigan range from Detroit — one of the largest metro areas in the country, to smaller towns and rural areas.

«We need to hear from claimant and defendant firms in personal injury work, from large practices to sole practitioner practices, from practices engaged in commercial litigation of whatever size, and from inner city locations to rural areas across the whole country.