Sentences with phrase «of rural folk»

On your way you'll see spectacular waterfalls, indigenous wildlife and gain a fascinating insight into some of the rural folk living in the hill tribe villages.

I definitely took a liking to this little tale of rural folk exercising their rights to be a little enterprising at the expense of a large financial corporation, and of the twists and turns as time unravels all their all - too - human motives.

But do the brains of city dwellers function any differently from those of rural folk?

Was the Norwegian Lundehund vital to the survival of the rural folks eking out a living out of the harsh coasts of Norway?

Not exact matches

Hurston and Walker reclaim two often territories: the language of black folk culture and the experience of uneducated rural southern women.

Rogers» folk rootedness emanates from a childhood love of nature and the outdoors, having grown up in rural Maryland.

They are rural folks from Oklahoma who lose their farm in the dustbowl years of the «30s and trek to California to look for a new life.

This partnership has increased Indonesia's ability to both feed its population and improve the incomes and, consequently, the living conditions of its millions of farmers and rural folk.

Built in Missouri in a style reminiscent of those that existed in 1836, the cabin is typical of those in which rural Illinois folk would have lived during the 1830s and «40s.

This makes it even harder to compromise, as House Democrats have no knowledge of issues affecting rural white folk and Republicans have no knowledge of urban voters.

We've seen tremendous improvement in the economy and at the social level since 1992, the Rawlings regime and that of Kufour all contributed immensely to the growth we seeing, the Mahama administration has added value to what he inherited.The infrastructure development recorded under this government is the highest after Nkrumah, the improvement in the health and education sector can not be downplayed.Policies rolled out by the regime to close the yawning gap between the toiling but highly productive rural folks and city officials is commendable.The IMF director Christie Lagarde was right when she described what we called economic success between 2005 - 2008 as mediocre growth.The base of the economy was still shattered and now being built to restore the confidence of the people.

Gee, nick, you oughtta leave the posh suburbs of Niskayuna and go out to rural Western NY or the North Country and talk to the jes» plain folks out there.

A Shared Legacy celebrates folk art traditions in rural areas of New England, the South, and the Midwest between 1800 and 1925.

«Many folks in rural parts of New York state and in suburban parts of New York state feel that this law — along with many other laws we pass here --(is) New York City, it's Albany telling the rest of the state how they have to live their lives,» said Senate sponsor Rob Ortt, R - Niagara County.

«A lot of people in rural New York, Upstate New York, feel that folks in New York City or in Albany don't understand their way of life,» Ortt said.

It's one of four such regional fairs celebrating the upscale rural lifestyle put on each year by the folks at Country Living magazine.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

Her team found mean vitamin D values of 14 nanograms per milliliter (ng / ml) in the city folks and 20 ng / ml in the rural group.

In the United States, unless you are among the 19.3 percent of residents who live in a rural area, you probably know how those folks in Los Angeles felt.

Redfern says many of the rural dwellers were likely to have been serfs and labourers for rich landowners, and so lived much harsher lives than the urban folk.

Created in May of 2005, this unique dating portal serves rural folk of all ages and is geared toward those who appreciate traditional values.

1970s exploitation lives in this lean, mean tale of vacationing city folk who accidentally run afoul of rural human traffickers.

December 16, 2017 • The sale of the outdoor retail giant to rival Bass Pro Shops has folks in Sidney, Neb., wrestling with the notion of becoming just another struggling rural American town.

Still, it is an affecting story, thanks in large part to Loach's long - standing empathy for the downtrodden, in this case the rural folk of County Leitrim, who find themselves kept down by imperious landowners and the Holy Mother Church.

Born into rural poverty and servitude, Gaines manages, through diligent work and an ingratiating manner towards white folk, to move from a small - town inn to a high - class hotel in Washington, DC, where he comes to the notice of a White House staff recruiter.

Playing like a scandal - rag version of events, writer / director Douglas McGrath (working off George Plimpton's biography of the author) concentrates on the clashing of Capote's gossipy, New York City atmosphere with the down home curiosity of rural Kansas as the author tries to earn the trust of folks who can tell him about the murder of the Clutter family.

Highlights include Young Galaxy's minimalist take on «Open Your Heart,» the Rural Alberta Advantage's folked - out version of «Live to Tell,» and the Acorn's clattering synth - rock rendition of «White Heat,» a standout cut from the original album that, save the James Cagney sample, is completely reinvented and nearly unrecognizable from the Material Girl's version.

It's hell though, for the folks in A Quiet Place — New England farmers (John Krasinski, Emily Blunt) who, on day 89 of the alien plague, are scavenging for food and medicine and useful items in a deserted rural town.

Acrylic folk art highlights the activities of daily life in this rural setting.

In rural communities incomes are apt to be lower and many folks have not really had an opportunity to establish a credit rating of any kind.

• Explore a vast, frigid Northern environment and battle the elements to survive • Complete the first of four chapters, each offering two to eight hours of gameplay • Enjoy the atmospheric soundtrack featuring music by Quebec folk band Curé Label • Experience the tale through the omniscient, third - person storyteller • Go back in time with a vintage look and feel reminiscent of 1970s rural communities

Nearly all of the objects in the Folk Arts Collection speak to the traditions and values of the rural Midwest.

Folk artist and quilt maker Harriet Powers (1837 - 1910) was born a slave in rural Georgia, but only a couple of her works remain.

First published in 1976, and taking its name from a collection of Japanese rural folk legends, Tales of Tono is a compact little volume composed of black - and - white photo diptychs and spreads that were shot in the countryside of northern Honshu, Japan.

When writing his seminal work, «The Souls of Black Folk,» civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois created a series of data visualizations about black advancement in the United States — from circular charts that show taxable property owned by African Americans to others that tracked city - versus - rural populations.

The rural surroundings of his youth proved formative to his practice, and it was in Sidi Bouzid amongst the long - standing traditions of folk tales and poetry that his preoccupation with lived and virtual reality was sown.

Influenced by the folk aesthetics and history of her surroundings, Norton's work employs music, video, mixed media, and performance as her country - music alter ego Ninnie, in a manner that combines feminist thought with local and vernacular imagery inspired by the cultural traditions of the rural South and specifically of her native Kentucky.

My own efforts will be giving talks on climate change (and its reasons) over the past 500 million years to local folks in this very rural region of upstate New York (before showing them the changes occurring recently and the reasons behind them).

They have been caught out before (see our post here) and ignored the real experiences of annoyance from rural folk unfortunate enough to be turbine neighbours (see our Experience page here).

People in this area have endured years of seeing Labour hatred of the countryside and the people who live there and the imposition by the urban elite of their will over rural folk (ban on fox hunting, closure of village post offices, closure of bus services, ruination of farmers, school closures, neglected roads etc etc).

If your understanding of the world is limited to what's printed in the mainstream press, you'd be forgiven for thinking that rural folk can't wait to nuzzle up to 300 tonne Vestas, with 70m blades towering 180m above them.

Folks on Amherst Island have begun to mourn the looming decimation of the quiet, rural island life that drew them to this place.

Of course, folks in Albuquerque are likely to pay more than those in rural New Mexico.

City folk with sloppy driving habits and who have no concern for the calmer and slower lifestyle of people living in rural areas, drive in a mindless manner and cause accidents

If Trump's dangerous health care bill passes, millions of Americans could lose their health care and people of color, those with low incomes, and folks in rural areas would be hit the hardest.

The smart folks are the older folks, those people who «have» heard of people losing money on real estate; they are selling out early to the Lemmings, moving out of the big, expensive cities, retiring early with their booty and either buying relatively cheap rural properties or simply renting.

And now that the area's secret is getting out, Hal and Claudia Zucker believe their experience selling real estate to New Yorkers will position their small brokerage to capitalize on the influx of city folk to this still rural area.