Sentences with phrase «of rural life as»

We watch the passing parade of rural life as we trek, stopping along the way to chat with village women and farmers amid their daily work routine..

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In Uganda — and since last year in Kenya — more than 1,000 Living Goods «community health promoters» in bright blue T - shirts make their rounds through urban communities and rural neighborhoods, peddling an assortment of malaria medicine, fortified cereals, vitamins and soap, as well as larger items such as cookstoves, solar lanterns and bednets.

As of June 2013, there are 59.6 million users in Rural India who have accessed internet at least once in their lives.

Chinese citizens receive an urban or rural hukou which officially identifies them as residents of a specific area and which allows them to live and work only in that area.

The products make life better for billions of people, dominating their respective niches (in some places, such as rural India, Colgate sometimes comes near holding an astounding 80 % market share).

Other important considerations around fairness must also be addressed, such as whether to provide charge - free access options or routes to ensure accessibility and inclusivity, whether to charge individuals a congestion fee for driving where alternative modes of transportation are not available (e.g. the lack of public transit in rural areas), whether the charge for commercial and private vehicles differs or not, and whether individuals living further away from urban areas and thus travelling further distances should face a higher charge than individuals living in urban areas.

It brought to mind my own experience with the funeral of a dear lady who'd lived what we call around here «a hard life» and was best known in the small rural community as «the bootlegger's widow.»

Rector at the village parish of Bemerton, England, for the last three years of his life, Herbert's The Country Parson — later known as A Priest in his Temple — is his compilation of advice for rural Anglican clergymen.

My role as a non-Indian, a Lutheran pastor and a Western - trained psychotherapist was first challenged years ago while I was working and living with a number of Chippewas, members of my first rural parish in northern Michigan.

Eliade has also documented the extreme persistence of this style of ordering life into a story which is not open to the new, in the rural cultures of Europe right down to the time of his own youth, and not only so, but he brilliantly predicted the resurgence of this kind of life story in the counterculture in a book which he wrote as long ago as the 1940's.2

«A better perception of the rural background of the parables of Jesus» as Legrand concludes, «helps better to appreciate the roots of Jesus in Galilean village life and his originality as a symbol maker.

The modern city, where more and more of us want to live, enjoys its munificence at the expense of the rural areas as Arthur E. Holt has forcibly brought home in This Nation Under God.6 Those fortunate enough to live in suburbs or other desirable residential districts enjoy their space and light partly through the exploitation of the crowded and blighted areas.

Our family had recently relocated to Northeast Iowa where I had been called as the pastor of a small, rural church and we had the joy of living in a 99 year old Iowa farmhouse that the church owns as its parsonage.

For rural and remote living children, lakes and rivers serve as transportation routes as well as sources of recreation.

The inequity experienced by pregnant women living in rural and remote locations forced to travel long distances to access maternity care, is raised as a failure of government to provide essential services to these communities [31 — 33] placing lives at risk.

As much as the renewal of mayoral control looks like a battle between city - based Democrats who back de Blasio and Long Island and rural Republicans who oppose him, it is city legislators whose constituents live within the system and who want to have a nuanced discussion about reforming iAs much as the renewal of mayoral control looks like a battle between city - based Democrats who back de Blasio and Long Island and rural Republicans who oppose him, it is city legislators whose constituents live within the system and who want to have a nuanced discussion about reforming ias the renewal of mayoral control looks like a battle between city - based Democrats who back de Blasio and Long Island and rural Republicans who oppose him, it is city legislators whose constituents live within the system and who want to have a nuanced discussion about reforming it.

Over the last few decades which portions of the average rural voter's disposable income in dollars, (or if there is no change, their quality of life), have consistently improved as a result of Republican policies, relative to Democratic policies?

As a result, communities like Kingston and Wawarsing, which have a high proportion of residents living under the poverty line, end up bearing the lion's share of Safety Net costs while wealthier or more rural towns like Woodstock and Marbletown see minimal impact.

He added that the construction of a standard road network would ensure the complement other economic development efforts as it would enable people living in the rural areas to convey their products from the farms without overwhelming challenges.

Other achievements, according to the Organized Labour include, «payment of 13th Month salary as Christmas bonus to the state workers; elaborate infrastructural developments of both urban and rural areas of the state through unique fiscal management of the state's meager resources; transformation of the education, agriculture and health sectors, other areas of governance which have improved the quality of lives of the people of Enugu State; approval of payment of arrears of salaries of 731 former staff of some state parastatals and also, the regularization of 42 casual staff of the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Parklane Enugu, as permanent staff of the institution», among others.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

Most patients live in suburban and rural areas, have impaired mobility and driving ability, and are faced with the challenge of making frequent trips to the doctor's office — a task that becomes more difficult as the disease progresses.

«Location also mattered, as people living in rural areas had higher rates of diagnosed diabetes than those in urban areas, and the South had the highest rates of various regions in the United States,» Towne said.

In spite of such known urban pressures on health as air and water pollution, water shortage, overcrowding, poor housing, the stresses of city transportation and the generally accelerated pace of city life, there is no substantial evidence from the National Health Survey that the overall health of the urban resident is worse than that of the rural resident.

In a study, the share of college graduates — often referred to as human capital — and the quality of life in a community were found to significantly contribute to economic growth, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

As a result, fewer than half of rural women live within a 30 - minute drive of the nearest hospital offering obstetric services.

For instance, the Rockefeller Foundation published a highly influential report, «Good Health at Low Cost,» promoting China's patriotic health campaign, Costa Rica's universal health insurance, Sri Lanka's land reform movement and Kerala's rural nurse - midwives as reasons residents of these areas were living better.

A new examination of remoteness as a barrier to health care, published online in the Journal of Global Health, notes that most surveys and policy documents categorize families as living either in an urban or rural setting, and this dichotomy can mask disparities of the most remote families.

According to the UN, in 2009, for the first time in history, the balance has tipped in favour of more people living in urban areas as opposed to rural areas.

The study also found the prevalence of AMD is higher among Chinese Americans as compared to the Chinese population living in urban / rural China, suggesting the influence of environmental or behavioral factors should be considered.

Researchers at Western University (London, Canada) have found youth living in rural areas are more likely to sustain concussions from injuries involving motorized vehicles such as all - terrain vehicles and dirt bikes, whereas youth living in urban areas suffer concussions mostly as a result of sports.

Many of the people returned to Port - au - Prince because they felt as if there was no life for them in the impoverished rural regions of Haiti, and they no longer wanted to be a burden on their already poor family members, he says.

A new examination of remoteness as a barrier to health care, published online today in the Journal of Global Health, notes that most surveys and policy documents categorize families as living either in an urban or rural setting, and this dichotomy can mask disparities of the most remote families.

That's as little as one - tenth of the intake among the world's dwindling hunter - gatherer and rural agrarian populations, whose living conditions and dietary intake presumably most closely resemble those of our common human ancestors, said Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology and senior author of a study published Jan. 13 in Nature.

I will try them the correct way as soon as I can get the different kinds of nut flours (we live in a rural town miles away from any!)

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

For starters, if you live in a rural area, you're probably going to want to choose one of the biggest online dating sites (eharmony, Match.com, or Christian Mingle) because you need access to as many profiles as possible.

As the first dating site for single farmers, cowboys, and people living in rural areas, FarmersOnly has addressed the needs of millions to become the leader in the niche dating space — all thanks to the drive of Founder Jerry Miller, a passionate team, an eye for humor, and a simplified online dating process.

Being rural and in retail was never in my wildest dreams but it was also some of the happiest times of my life as I loved starting a new business from scratch — literally, I threw some seeds in the ground and up popped a business!

As in the play Thoroughly Modern Millie, millions of young women left the safety and security of rural, small - town life and went to live an independent life in the big city.

This sedate stroll through Salinger's life covers his abbreviated days as a Columbia writing student through the prickly sequestration in rural New Hampshire where he reportedly wrote reams of still - unseen material and alienated a series of wives and girlfriends before his death in 2010.

Story details are limited, but we know the Blumhouse Productions horror sequel will follow Shannyn Sossamon (A Knight's Tale, The End of Love, One Missed Call) as a protective mother (Shannyn Sossamon of «Wayward Pines») and her 9 - year - old twin sons (real - life twin brothers Robert and Dartanian Sloan) find themselves in a rural house marked for death as the evil spirit of Bughuul continues to spread with frightening intensity.

Parched Details: 2015, Wolfe Video Rated: Not rated The lowdown: A drama set in rural India that centers on four ordinary women who share the harsh lives of Indian women, including abusive and arranged marriages as well as widowhood.

For the first half - hour, the movie plays out like a n everyday slice - of - life in a racially - mixed rural town with limited employment opportunities (generally centering around the train yard), cruising along in full Malick meditative mode as it casually explores a timeless and unspoiled space.

April 5, 2018 • And the number of sufferers is expected to increase, especially in lower - income countries as people in rural areas move to urban centers and adopt more sedentary lives.

Italian artist Frammartino creates an offbeat cinematic experiment with this film, which surprises us by refusing to play by the rules as it explores the cycles of life in rural Calabria.

Then there are Andrew Garfield (Breathe) as advocate Robin Cavendish, one of the longest - living polio survivors in Britain; Benedict Cumberbatch (The Current War) as electricity titan Thomas Edison; Jason Clarke (Mudbound) as Henry McAllan, a city worker who relocates his family to a rural farm post-World War II; Hugh Jackman (The Greatest Showman) as P.T. Barnum; and, less likely, James Franco (The Disaster Artist), completely losing himself in a Method turn as failed filmmaker - turned - cult icon Tommy Wiseau.

MON ONCLE ANTOINE By Donald Chase Mon Oncle Antoine, Claude Jutra's extraordinary evocation of life in rural post-WWII Québec, is widely regarded as the best Canadian film ever made.

Randy «The Ram» Robinson still lives in that past, at least as far as his taste in hair metal music goes, and pushes an increasingly broken body into the ring for regional cards in the show - biz hinterlands of rural New Jersey for a few hundred dollars a night.

The ever - reliable Brendan Gleeson is on the form of his life as Father James, a priest in rural Ireland who is surprised by a death threat one morning as he takes confession.