Sentences with phrase «number of local people»

In conversation with a number of local people involved in arts and cultural work, social justice and activism Barby and sorryyoufeeluncomfortable will rework the script for «Baldwin's Nigger», forming the basis for a performance which engages with many issues we are facing at this time in history and how James Baldwin's writings and thinking resonate with society today.

As the number of films produced here increases, so, too, does the number of local people needed to work on their crews.

A union member working at the site says you would need to multiply that number three or four times to get a good idea of the number of local people directly linked to it so it's little wonder that nuclear is expected to play a major role in the byelection.

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It also shows a number of people playing on the same device, meaning the Switch will feature local wireless multiplayer.

As they started sharing their «on the streets» strategies with local real estate investors, word began to spread and they couldn't keep up with the number of people looking for help.

After all, the number of people using social media to find local businesses is only going to rise, not fall.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

We know from archaeological evidence that Cyrus allowed a number of conquered peoples to rebuild their homelands and local temples.

Yes, as a catholic I believe the church at local level should have hand these so - called priest over the local authorities, also, there has been a great number of people coming forward and filing lawsuits looking for money, we all know that.

Says Daniel, «I know a fair number of people who spent 18 months as associate pastors, then left to do Ph.D. work, and spent teaching careers disparaging the local church ever after.»

The United States had donated corn to feed people in a number of southern African countries, including Malawi, but local traders were already importing corn from other countries and local farmers were harvesting their own corn.

But considering the vast number of churches that do not acknowledge the problem, it seems that most denominational bodies and local congregations are in denial — the primary symptom of a dysfunctional person, organization or system — even though one substance - abusing minister can sicken, dishearten and dispirit an entire church just as one alcoholic can infect an entire household.

«We don't target college students but people who work at the university, which is usually a sizable number of people, and maybe graduate students and local residents.

Our chips come from Colombia where they provide income for some of the smaller growers and employment for local people - including a number of widowed women who have to support their families.

But Mount Gambier mayor Alan Lee said the fracking ban was backed by an overwhelming number of people in the local community.

The Partnership will see Commonwealth environmental water delivered to a number of wetland sites in the Lower River Murray and adjoining the Coorong and Lower lakes that are both of environmental significance and culturally important to local Indigenous people.

Oxford University Sport works with a number of local, regional and national sports organisations who provide sport to a wide range of people of all ages and levels.

«The betting is dominated by a number of people connected to the club and the local area — with Appleton currently heading the market.»

We got a lot of local food stuff likes maple syrup in glass bottles and limited the number of present we got people.

Formed against a background of economic curtailment on welfare spending and a huge increase in the number of HIV and AIDS cases, Wola Nani initiated programs to help HIV + people in the local community cope with the emotional and financial strains brought about by HIV and AIDS.

Get the name of the person at the airline baggage service desk AND the local phone number at the St. Thomas airport.

A survey by South Holland district council found that despite tensions with local people and concerns about their employers, many of the migrants coming to the area - a number which has increased almost tenfold in the past three years - want to stay.

That said, the general theme of a reduction of concern mirrors the trends in the crime survey of England and Wales, which shows continuing decline in crime rates and a steady drop in the numbers of people across the country highlighting anti-social behaviour as a problem in their local areas.

The White House says the crowd at Cooper Union for President Obama's Wall Street reform speech includes some 700 people, including a number of finance industry bigs and local elected officials.

Other policies can be highly local, for example, health coverage could easily be done on a state or even county level without an easy way for the policies to be circumvented - sure, people can move to a different state / county but what counts as a policy in this case is the obligation residents have to pay in to the system and what their benefits are from it, so moving from state to state would not subvert the policies, it just changes the number of people subject to these policies.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. today announced that Oneida County will be taking its Teen Traffic Safety Program on the road to local schools this year to maximize the numbers of young people who are reminded about traffic safety practices that can help save lives.

More worrisome is the ever - increasing number of local and International Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the state whose impacts are not felt in the productive sector by facilitating job opportunities for the people.

In a question that asks about the job performance of federal, state and local officials, people in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives got the worst numbers, with more than 70 percent of those surveyed feeling their performance is «just fair» or «poor.»

Biraderi's patriarchal and hierarchical nature has led to a number of Bradford's British Pakistanis, especially young people and women, to feel increasingly disenfranchised from a local politics dominated by what has been termed locally as the «biraderi brigade».

New York City is investigating allegations that Covenant House, the largest local provider of shelter to homeless teenagers and young adults, has been inflating the number of people it serves and has not been complying with the terms of its contracts with the city.

Turnout at local elections tends to be very low (below 40 %), and the traction generated by the tree - felling case could have a positive effect in terms of the number of people that will go to the polls to elect one - thirds of Sheffield Council that are elected in this cycle, and the SCRCA mayor.

Selling off existing social housing and allowing local people to build their own homes are just two ideas that would vastly increase the number of new homes being built in Britain, says Nick Faith of Policy Exchange

There are still a significant number of people, especially in more rural areas, who feel that funerals are traditionally conducted by the local vicar, regardless of religious beliefs.

There has in fact been a persistent puzzle among economists, especially the variety that believe that all human behavior is rational, concerning why it is that people vote in such large numbers when their vote almost never make a difference, not only at the Presidential level, but even at the level of local elections.

If people's votes were fairly represented, under a proportional voting system, any given party which had control of a local authority would have to justify its decisions more frequently as a result of being monitored by a greater number of scrutineers who more accurately reflect the will of local people.

This is an exciting opportunity for a select number of youth to participate in the newly formed Youth Advisory Council set up to advise the Syracuse Common Council on local legislation and its impact on young people.

District Attorney William Fitzpatrick was joined by a number of local and federal law enforcement agencies to announce the sting arrests of nearly 30 people accused of profiting from or engaging in prostitution.

«Last night I had a very in - depth conversation with a number of very committed, focused local elected officials from the city of Hartford and I was edified in so many ways, in detail, on a granular level, of some of the fiscal challenges far beyond the knowledge that I had on this topic,» Ganim told an audience of about 50 people.

Buses were the focus of questions on transport, due to declining numbers on local services and the high number of people in the city region using private vehicles.

People's council tax liabilities depend on which «band» their property is in, the number of council tax payers in the local authority's territory (the council tax base), how much the local authority intends to spend that year and the funding it has been allocated from central Government.

«It's sad that people don't remember that the local elections that happen on the odd number years have more of an impact on their pocketbook and their daily lives than the national elections.»

Cuomo's staff lent a hand in comparing the two rallies, tweeting pictures of the two locations and pitching local reporters on the numbers, arguing that far more people were gathered at the charter rally.

But, Poloncarz quickly added that the amendment is attached to a health care bill that would cause grave harm in Erie County, increasing the number of people without health insurance and thereby burdening local hospitals — and especially the county - funded Erie County Medical Center — with patients with no way to pay their bills.

The district attorney had delegated local courts to handle a rising number of cases in which people are charged with a misdemeanor for circumventing an ignition interlock device.

For instance, local officials lured large numbers of Tutsis to a school near the town of Murambi, where Hutu militias used machine guns, explosives and other weapons to kill more than 40,000 people in just three days.

Grassroots protests attracted large numbers of local and native people who worry about their environmental health but don't consider themselves activists.

If Norway is to achieve its target of reducing the number of people affected by noise nuisance by 10 per cent by 2020, additional local measures must be put in place.

Regarding to the high number of threatened marsupials, Dalia Conde explains that Australian zoos are trying to use these species not only for captive breeding programs but also to educate people about the threats, that a local species faces.

Growing human vulnerability (due to growing numbers of people living in exposed and marginal areas or due to the development of more high - value property in high - risk zones) is increasing the risk, while human endeavours (such as by local governments) try to mitigate possible effects.

That's why we take into careful consideration the quality of ingredients used when creating new recipes for Peoples Deli, and take pride in the number of local purveyors we partner with.