Sentences with phrase «of rural life on»

The show is broad in scope, variously revealing how the «radical naturalism» of JMW Turner informed the first photographic panoramic views, and the way PH Emerson and TF Goodall channeled the hazy beauty of the Impressionists in their captured scenes of rural life on the river; as well as shedding light on Julia Margaret Cameron's relationships with George Frederic Watts and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and the nascent parlour popularity of stereograph photography (among many other examples).»

• A taste of rural life on the large island of Navos is a mix of historic neighbourhoods and Kitron liqueur

Mix the bustle of China's metropolises with the tranquility of rural life on a 12 - day adventure.

Not exact matches

We lived in rural Wisconsin and on one of the coldest nights of the year, I was seven months pregnant with my first child and my husband and I went to bed one night and our house burned down.

The average Chinese household lives on a quarter of the income that American and Western European households do, and standards of living remain very low in rural parts of the country, and across central and western China.

For people living in rural areas, where wait times for driverless Uber or any kind of public transit are completely unreasonable, yet don't have money to burn an extra $ 10k on their car to make it autonomous, will continue to buy old - fashioned human - driven cars with gas pedals and steering wheels long into the future — and will not accept not being able to drive their cars into cities.

«We will continue to expand on our partnerships and infrastructure to deliver access to the widest selection of the best products from around the world to consumers,» Zhang said in a statement, «whether they live in Beijing or a rural village in the farthest edges of the country.»

NYT: Monks in California Breathe Life Into a Monastery From Spain The rebirth of a medieval Cistercian monastery building here on a patch of rural Northern California land was, of course, improbable.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Though living through a period that witnessed the birth of an independent United States, the French Revolution and the Terror, the Napoleonic wars and the rise of revolutionary romanticism, the evangelical revivals and the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution, she focuses on a few middling gentry families in rural England.

I'm guessing L4H is someone living back on the farm and has never left his rural community, the only life he knows is that of his family and close church friends.

I live in a small rural community and within a 10 mile radius, I could name you at least four preachers who have either molested children, having perfected affairs, stripping and robbing God's people of money and running around on their wives.

Hence the destruction of rural communities does not count against the gain in per capita income achieved by reducing the number of persons living on the land while producing the same quantity of agricultural products.

Let me continue this deliberation on the theological import of mission and liturgy in the service of working toward a pluralistic nationhood by indulging in more imaginative theological play.61 What if we consider pluralistic living among various religious communities in terms of a large, traditional, rural Indian house?

With this rising population and the lack of radical reform in most underdeveloped countries, particularly in the rural communities where the large masses of these people live, the world food crisis will recur when again the crops are less favorable; the danger is that it will then gradually take on an ever more permanent and disastrous dimension.

An enormous 70 percent of the world's poorest people — those scraping by on less than $ 1.25 a day — live in rural areas.1 These communities depend on the earth in a more direct way than many of us will ever understand.

At Jerusalem even rather technical phases of the problem were of such urgency that a detailed survey had been made of rural life in one oriental country, Korea, and the council declared that «experts» on rural life must be included on missionary staffs.

She admitted to me that what she really wanted was to be living on a farm in rural Connecticut, raising a horde of children and embroidering tea towels.

However, now living in a very rural environment where county law enforcement is 40 minutes away, and we rely on officers from another county, city, or state (hopefully they are available) in an emergency, I advocate sensible firearms possession for the sake of protection of personal protection, livestock, and hunting.

That impromptu acapella worship service in the church bus on a country road in rural Iowa surrounded by the raging storm remains one of the most meaningful ones in my life.

More than half of El Salvador's population lives in rural areas, working on farms of less than 3 ha.

In addition, our producers are small family businesses that live in rural areas away from the pollution of the cities, like on Mt. Banahaw.

We're lucky to live in a rural part of the UK which attracts artists and makers across all disciplines, from painters to potters and textile artists to photographers so there's always something going on to inspire and amaze.

She and her husband Walter are the proud parents of a son who came into their lives through adoption, and live on a ranchette in rural Texas with a small herd of rescued Great Danes and other farm animals.

If you plan on taking a lot of walks and live in a more rural environment, this might not be the best option.

Effect of early infant feeding practices on infection - specific neonatal mortality: an investigation of the causal links with observational data from rural Ghana Karen M Edmond, Betty R Kirkwood, Seeba Amenga - Etego, Seth Owusu - Agyei, and Lisa S Hurt Beginning Breastfeeding From First Day of Life Reduces Infection Related Deaths in Newborns by 2.6 times.

Saying his government brought the National Social Investment Programmes targeting millions of Nigerians living from hand to mouth, Buhari added that his launch into agricultural programmes focusing on import substitution, job creation and rural development have caused socio - economic transformation.

«Bittergate» took on a life of its own, rural America thought he was a secret Muslim, Pennsylvania rejected him outright, and his own preacher made his life hell.

A good piece and living in a rural area of Lancashire Liam is right on many issues, and «community» is at the heart of it.

A majority of the residents who addressed the Lancaster Town Board trustees lived on Peppermint Road, a rural neighborhood in northeastern Lancaster that is home to horse barns,...

We are fortunate to live in a place that is marked by its proximity to the majestic Hudson River, its green rolling hills, and extraordinary history: from our place on the National Historic Register for many of the incredible old homes and other structures in our town, to our amazing agricultural and rural back story over the centuries which may be best exemplified by the annual New Baltimore Agfest.

«I am very pleased that under this Government fuel duty has not been increased at all in the last 5 years, recognising the impact fuel costs can have on the cost of living and business costs - particularly in rural areas where we are reliant on our vehicles.

And in recent days, Mr. Flanagan has shown flashes of political sophistication in his own party, working outward from his base on Long Island — where nine Republican state senators, including Mr. Skelos, live — while reassuring more conservative upstate Republicans on issues like the Safe Act, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's 2013 gun control law, which he supported but many rural residents abhor.

The BBC's Jeremy Cooke reports from North Yorkshire on the likely impact of fuel prices increases on people living in rural areas.

«It is no surprise that business people are capitalizing on the sale of these facilities at a higher price, since majority of these farmers live in the rural areas and would not like to travel thus far to the banking facilities in order to benefit from these facilities.

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

I have seen barely any activity from either party, Tory posters are largely seen on rural roads into the constituency (typically for candidate in surrounding seats) or on houses that are currently vacant (coming down the A15 near the Cathedral I thought once house owner was brave with 2 massive Tory posters, then saw a sign saying the house is up for rent, and no visible signs of life in the house).

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.

On patrol one day last fall in Blythe, another California town along the Colorado, Matuska drove his SUV looking for large green lawns in rural areas that he hadn't noticed before — a new farm field or some other sign of small - scale irrigation bringing life to a red desert.

Excavators are peeling back the layers of dirt on the village of Sanyangzhuang, which was buried by a flood on the Yellow River 2000 years ago, to reveal a unique 2000 - year - old time capsule of Chinese rural life, they reported at the Society for American Archaeology meeting.

These are some of the insights drawn from research by Michelle Sowden and colleagues of the University of Vermont in the US to determine if living in a rural or urban area influences the impact of cancer diagnosis on employment.

O'Malley said Iowans are interested in rising temperatures because of the impacts they're seeing on agriculture and other aspects of rural life.

If we could help apply the results from this research to develop effective community - based beehive fence deterrent systems for rural Asian farmers living with elephants, we could have a significant impact on the survival of the Asian elephant species.»

The trees play an absolutely critical role in rural life,» observes Peter Läderach of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, who has led research into the effects of climate change on cacao farming in Ivory Coast and Ghana.

By relying on this well - validated prediction model, the team was able to include subjects who live in unmonitored and less - populated areas so that the effects of air pollution on all 60 million people could be analyzed regardless of whether they lived in urban, suburban, or rural areas.

The study, «Assessing the Potential Impact of State Policies on Community Health Centers» Outreach and Enrollment Activities,» is the first to examine efforts on the front lines to find and enroll uninsured people, many of whom are living in rural and urban communities that face high poverty rates, elevated health risks and a shortage of primary health care.

Ira Longini, a modeler at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and his colleagues simulated an imaginary population of 500,000 people in a rural part of the country; Michael Ferguson of Imperial College London built a model based on the 85 million people living in Thailand and a 100 - kilometer - wide border zone in neighboring countries.

Yet vast numbers of the rural population live on the brink of starvation, unable to find a patch of land of their own to cultivate.

That's the conclusion of a new study on Western jackdaws (Corvus monedula), crowlike birds that live in both cities and rural areas across Europe.

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.