Sentences with phrase «neglected by city officials»

Women's vital contribution, however, has largely been neglected by city officials, economic planners and development practitioners, who have tended to concentrate on the industrialization of food production.

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«Our treasury rifled; our credit shaken; the poor laborer asking vainly for his honest wages day after day; the rich official reveling in disreputable gains; an enormous debt heaped upon us we know not how; our schools decaying, our teachers cowering before their Catholic masters; our press, when it ventures to complain, threatened with violence or insulted by offered bribes; the interests of the city neglected, its honorable reputation gone.»

While no one seems to be in a rush to answer the question, a neglected sidewalk owned by one of the city's top Republican elected officials has caught the attention of other city residents forced to pay top dollar to fix their own sidewalks.