Sentences with phrase «large rural city»

Rydges Mount Panorama Bathurst is located just an hours drive from the Blue Mountains in the large rural city of Bathurst.

Not exact matches

• Lesbian couples who live in rural areas are much more likely to be poor (14.1 percent), compared to 4.5 percent of coupled lesbians in large cities.

And those views appear to feed the rural - urban divide: A 56 percent majority of rural residents says the federal government does more to help people living in and around large cities, while 37 percent feel they treat both urban and rural areas equally.

While this move could easily be seen as a demotion, Mr. Hughes, a trusted confident of Ms. Redford's, will have an important role in repairing the provincial government's strained relationship with its municipal leaders — both in the large cities and rural municipalities.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

In Kenya, the migration of people from rural villages to large cities has left a gap in the way children develop.

But our parliament is 24 % women, and there are plenty of women in larger cities who are professionals, although in the rural areas, there is more of a traditionalist approach.

A study published in 2000 by the ELCA revealed that of the cohort of newly minted pastors, 71 percent placed constraints upon where they could move due to the needs or desires of a spouse; 58 percent restricted their first call to a location in or near a large city; 36 percent were opposed to serving in a small congregation; and 32 percent were opposed to serving in a rural setting.

They are concentrated in the South, truer to the stereotype — about half of their members live in these areas — with large numbers, nearly seventy percent, living in small cities, towns, and rural areas.

These schools exist in large cities and small towns, suburbs and rural enclaves.

These rural workplaces provide a welcome alternative to these women moving to a large city to work in the garment industry leaving their families behind and making themselves vulnerable to injust and sometimes violent situations.

There are some rural cities like Dothan, Alabama and Lima, Ohio, but most are larger cities.

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.

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

Military spending on expensive major weapons systems built in large cities like aircraft, ships, and submarines, has grown much faster than military spending on personnel, (which has actually declined as military spending overall has surged), who frequently hail from rural areas.

Politics.co.uk initially focused on battleground seats between the two main parties, constituencies in large cities, and a handful of more suburban and rural safe seats that were picked up along the way.

Flanagan did not return calls for this story, but Scott Reif, a spokesman for the Senate Republican majority, argued that both Long Island and rural Upstate districts would be shortchanged under Cuomo's budget, with New York City taking home a larger share than usual.

It is also worth noting that according to the 2011 census, cities have larger populations of EU immigrants than more mixed and rural areas.

The district includes a pair of hard - hit Rust Belt cities - Utica and Binghamton - as well as large swaths of rural farmland and bite - size villages and towns.

On the efforts by the President Muhammadu Buharu administration to improve electricity in Nigeria, Fashola said «Federal government is implementing off - grid renewable energy solutions such as rural mini-grids, standalone home solutions, IPP for Federal Universities, Teaching Hospitals and large - scale solar PV projects such as the Jigawa solar city.

In many cases, larger constituency units have come about as a result of a loss of seats — whether it be the loss of a European Parliament seat by the Republic of Ireland or the loss of County Council seats by some (of the more rural) counties — added to the overall increase in seat numbers for City and County Council elections.

In broad terms the large northern cities, and London, have lost seats to the rural south of England, as its population grows.

The county of about 160,000 residents includes busy riverfront city areas in Troy and Rensselaer as well as large rural stretches.

«Are married couples who met and dated in large cities typically more similar than [those] in rural areas?

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

Indeed, the toilet of the future may be needed most by poor communities swelling on the edges of the world's large cities, as more rural dwellers crowd into urban centers, said Randy Strash, senior manager at the nonprofit World Vision, a humanitarian organization focused on the rural poor.

In addition to these policies, the development of oil and mineral resources led to rapid urbanization, which drew people from the rural areas to pursue jobs in larger cities.

The numerous stations in and around large cities would be down - weighted and rural stations would tend to be more heavily weighted.

In 2012, a research team that included NIU's Walker Ashley, a professor of meteorology in the geography department, found that in comparison to rural areas, large cities in the Southeast had a much higher risk of experiencing heavy rainfalls associated with summertime thunderstorms.

Jumpsuits and rompers (called playsuits in the U.K.) have a large amount of mainstream appeal — so much so, that searches for the item are now spiking in more rural and suburban pockets across the U.S. and the U.K. and not just in major cities.

Those of you who live in larger cities won't have as much trouble with this as those who live in more rural areas.

There are large metro places in the city and rural areas as well, including Cabo, Baja Peninsula and others.

Single women who live in large cities are much less romantic than their rural and suburban female counterparts.

Each year, millions of Chinese are moving from the lesser developed, poorer, rural interior to the large, eastern cities in China in search of jobs, opportunity and dreams.

«Incentives to work in low - performing schools are not the sole answer — too often, it's large class sizes, poor working conditions, and a lack of support from administrators that drives teachers away from high - poverty rural and inner - city schools,» she said.

«For large rural states like Montana, and for inner - city school systems struggling with limited resources, the impact on education could be dramatic,» according to Mr. Burns.

After being matched by more than $ 600 million in goods and services from the local communities that were recipients, the money was given to nine large city school systems, a consortium of rural schools, and two national school - reform groups, among others.

And you will find partisans on both sides — given the growing political homogeneity of large cities and rural counties — spouting the merits of local control.

Using Census Bureau classifications, we group students into three categories according to the location of the school they attended in 3rd grade: 1) a large or midsize city, 2) suburbia (specifically, the urban fringe of a large or midsize city), and 3) towns and rural areas.

In fact, in the United States almost 9 million students attend rural schools which is more than the enrollments of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and the next 75 largest school districts combined.

By contrast, in the 7 urban schools outside of large cities and in the 38 rural schools, 93 percent of the students and 97 percent of the teachers were white.

And again, we're talking about a whole range of school districts: rural, small town - yes, large city school systems that may have more resources.

Schools in the study ranged from 28 - 92 % poverty, and included four rural, four small town, and one suburban school, as well as five inner - city schools from three large metropolitan districts.

Andy Smarick said that it can be harder for rural areas with fewer people, a smaller workforce, and less ability to attract charter school operators, to make the changes seen in large cities.

But as the 2017 RSCT report «Rural Matters» points out, the 9 million rural students in the United States exceed the enrollments of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and the next 75 largest school districts combRural Matters» points out, the 9 million rural students in the United States exceed the enrollments of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and the next 75 largest school districts combrural students in the United States exceed the enrollments of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and the next 75 largest school districts combined.

Teachers in rural area schools without the benefit of large city resources will be judged how?

As a smaller rural district, Karns City is under pressure to provide similar technology and professional development seen in larger districts.

3) Virginia: K12 partners with over 2,000 school districts in the U.S. — large, small, urban and rural — including in Virginia (e.g. Alexandria City Public Schools in highly populated northern Virginia uses K12 for its online / blended programs.)

The 11 project schools were from eight different school districts spread across a rural area in the southeastern U.S.; an eastern city; two small towns in the Midwest; a large city in the Midwest; and a large city in the southwestern U.S..

If you are a young person coming out of college, and you are looking to live in a large city, or those types of things, a rural area may not be as attractive to you initially.»