Sentences with phrase «more rural places»

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«Most rural places are culturally distinct from urban and suburban markets, where local competition is higher and where pressure from customers makes local businesses more likely to adopt new business activities to stay ahead of the curve,» says Fortunato.

It is strongest in precisely the sorts of places one might expect — rural locations more than urban; southern and midwestern regions more than in the rest of the country; and among Catholics and very sectarian groups (such as Jehovah's Witnesses) more than in any sector of Protestantism.

The rural ministry gradually became a stepping stone for young men on their way to more prosperous city churches or a final resting place for the man who had given his most vigorous years to urban centers.

JP: Food for thought... but I have been trying to move to a more rural, quieter place for a couple of years now.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

For example, city centers, suburbs, and rural areas often have very different interests, so I would argue that, to meet the purpose of districting in the first place, it makes more sense to put the city center, suburbs, and rural areas in their own districts to the maximum extent reasonably possible.

Democrats have landed a top recruit in a rural Maine district where candidate profiles matter — even more so than most places.

If it takes place after millions of people are removed from the electoral register we could see the biggest transfer of parliamentary representation and political power from urban to rural areas for more than a century.

The shift would draw down the makeup of many rural areas where prisons are located, to the benefit of urban areas where more crimes take place — that is, better for Democrats than for Republicans.

In one of the largest international conservation efforts ever undertaken, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London has completed a $ 120 million expansion of its rural outpost in Wakehurst Place to preserve seeds from more than 24,000 species.

«To be honest, no one knows what the situation is like in these more rural and remote places, and it's going to be some time before we have a full picture.»

But the risks are not equal for all: In places such as the Peruvian Amazon, people in more urban areas are far more likely to die from leptospirosis than those in rural areas.

With dating increasingly taking place online and as more and more dating sites hit the market, we have rounded - up the 20 best dating websites in the UK Horse Lovers Dating — dating platform for rural singles.

Watson - Blagden says the concept of place - based education has taken root over the past ten to twenty years, fueled, in part, by Annenberg Rural Challenge grants, launched in 1995 to improve rural schools by linking them more with their communiRural Challenge grants, launched in 1995 to improve rural schools by linking them more with their communirural schools by linking them more with their communities.

It includes a summarised set of revision notes, key terminology is defined and case studies on Nigeria and Royal Dutch Shell (NEE Country); Jamaica (Development through tourism); UK Sustainable Car Industry; South Oxfordshire and Milton (Contrasting Rural Areas) and many more named place examples.

Nearly 10 million children attend schools in rural places, and there are more than 7,600 school districts in the United States where more than half of students attend rural schools.

The pressure on places is predominantly in the big cities - London, Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham - and with more rural areas often having spare places, moving can be one (albeit difficult) way of solving the problem

Another major hurdle in bringing vouchers to rural communities is that the public schools are more than just places for children to learn: they serve a critical social and economic function by serving as the primary employer of small communities, offering healthcare for children and adults alike and frequently offering food pantries, breakfast or lunch programs and night classes.

This 6 - page brochure summarizes evaluation data from six place - based education programs representing more than 100 schools (rural, suburban, and urban) covering twelve states.The body of evidence reflects more than 1,000 adult interviews or focus group participants; more than 250 student interviews; more than 900 educator surveys; more than 2,700 student surveys; extensive document review; and dozens of on - site observations.

An exploration of what «place - based» means in rural education, from a prescription for courses that incorporate local issues and hometown histories to a more radical interpretation that would have schools resist state standards and testing requirements

In Mississippi, where more than 56 percent of students attend rural schools, Title I funding could be cut by $ 7 million, with the largest cuts taking place in five high - poverty Mississippi Delta districts.

It is ironic that the amount of extra traffic and burden of the cost of transporting children from the age of 4 to large town schools together with the expansion costs of those larger schools will actually cost more than adequately funding the rural schools in the first place!

The first six opportunity areas we picked are very different places — some coastal, some more rural and some more urban.

Each year, Teach For America places more than 5,000 pre-K — 12th grade teachers in high - need rural and urban schools across the United States through a network of 53 regional centers.

Reading about your experience just leaves that hollow place a little more empty and makes me wish I didn't live in such a rural environment.

I agree with you in the city, but I bet there are more rural areas where bartering if more common — in places where there is one town doctor.

It is helpful to already live in a place or have access to a place where a breeding business will be permitted — e.g. a more rural setting rather than an urban one.

Overall, the hotel is a pleasant place for a one - night getaway or a few nights to explore a more rural side of Luang Prabang.

Much ado about minimalism in rural Marfa, Texas during the Chinati Foundations annual weekend October 8 - 10 — and still more on how time and place concerns continue as art currency.

The effect may be achieved in a formal avenue lined with trees or in a more rural setting with randomly placed trees on each side of the route.

In most developing places it isn't engineers or big contractors that build homes, especially in more rural settings.

Several speakers described it as a «holistic» approach that aims to go beyond reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) and even beyond REDD + (which incorporates more activities) by shifting the focus beyond just capturing carbon in trees and towards a complete re-engineering of the rural economy that incorporates people, places, and culture.

As for determining G, it might be possible to approximate it by carefully combining modeling with careful and painstaking review of whatever high quality records exist of places which have incurred major changes from rural to more urban, over time.

While handy for camping, BioLite is intended as an option for rural areas in places like Africa, which rely on much more inefficient and polluting cookstoves.

Even places like sewage treatment plants and firestations would probably experience the same change from a more rural to more «urban» condition.

Frankly, these types of assistance programs are a good first step, but there needs to be more in place if young lawyers are going to succeed in rural practices; things like mentorship programs and community buy - in.

Anand's idea is to offer financial incentives, much like the programs now in place to bring more doctors to rural practices.

Places with less traffic, like more rural areas, often have lower average car insurance premiums than places with more trPlaces with less traffic, like more rural areas, often have lower average car insurance premiums than places with more trplaces with more traffic.

Statistically speaking more car - related accidents and theft occur in urban places thus policy holders in metropolitan areas are considered to be more risky than people in rural places.

All other things being equal, divorce in urban places such as New York City costs more, for example, than a divorce in rural Georgia.

As we have done in more than 75 communities (rural, tribal, suburban, and urban), the Alliance provides guidance, planning assistance and training needed to create ONE PLACE.

You get out in these more rural states, places like North or South Dakota where traveling this time of year is a real struggle, it becomes even more difficult.»

Lot Size Rural Harrison County, Kentucky is attempting to pass a requirement that manufactured homes may only be placed on lots of 10 acres or more.

This is more prevalent in places like Beaver and Butler counties, as the house location has to be considered a «rural «area.

More than half of people surveyed claimed that if money were no object, they would give city life the big heave - ho in favour of a rural town or village, while a fifth claimed that the coast would be their perfect place to live.