Sentences with phrase «of rural places»

As industrialization began to spread, Moran's paintings of nature provided an accessible and direct experience and reflected a developing nostalgia among urban residents for the serenity of rural places.

Brian Wilson, director at Rural England, who wrote the report, said: «A lack of a fast broadband connection is an issue in a lot of rural places.

The predominantly upper middle class newcomers negotiate their sense of rural place against the backdrop of the primarily working class old timers» concept of rurality.

The school also becomes the symbolic site where the former urbanites contest their sense of rural place with their neighbors who are long - standing rural inhabitants.

The school provides a physical and imagined place where newcomer families negotiate their sense of rural place.

Not exact matches

These properties are often areas of urban blight, rural abandonment, or places that others are reluctant to live in.

- Live in a place with lots of available mystery shops (both big and small cities have lots of shops but rural areas are difficult)

«Most rural places are culturally distinct from urban and suburban markets, where local competition is higher and where pressure from customers makes local businesses more likely to adopt new business activities to stay ahead of the curve,» says Fortunato.

Mr. Kowalski and a cadre of rural MLAs mobilized rural Alberta Tories to vote for Mr. Klein on the second ballot of the 1992 PC leadership contest after Nancy Betkowski placed first by one vote on the first ballot.

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).

Like, a company doubling the number of stores in the same town is going to grow earnings faster than sales while a company increasing its nationwide store count by 10 % through filling in the most rural places it hasn't yet reached is not going to drive any sort of earnings growth beyond store count growth.

This is, maybe most of all, a SOUTHERN film — the honorable, violent, classy (sir and mam), men - of - few - well - chosen - poetic - words, chivalrous, gun - toting, fishing, motorized - vehicle - loving, woman - idealizing - and - protecting, family - and - place - oriented, unprosperous, rural (but not agrarian) South.

Do you think that this kind of blatant prejudice is a geographic thing, limited to places like rural Tennessee?

To front - load the story by saying people were being treated in animal stalls, and only later point out it was a free clinic held in a county fairground (rural area, large crowd... likely the only suitable place that passed health and safety requirements for such an event), and to not mention that many if not most of those taking advantage of the free medical care were likely farm workers and not here legally... is beyond poor reporting.

It is strongest in precisely the sorts of places one might expect — rural locations more than urban; southern and midwestern regions more than in the rest of the country; and among Catholics and very sectarian groups (such as Jehovah's Witnesses) more than in any sector of Protestantism.

Cox pointed to the significant work of hermeneutics which needed to take place in order to translate the gospel message from the biblical rural environment to an urban one.

In its current commitment to the development of its rural population, it can place emphasis on «Food First.»

Now a transient place full of hipsters, bond traders, and actors, as well as actors and hipsters who are the children of bond traders, all searching for an «authentic» place to replace the Midwestern suburbs and rural towns they came to Brooklyn to escape, Brooklyn for me will always be Flatbush Avenue and Rudy Giuliani, Bernie (Goetz, not Madoff), and Ed Koch, block parties, radios murmuring Yankees games on back porches (all of us too poor to afford air conditioning, which kept us outside in that great urbanist semi-public space), the blackout of 1977 and the blizzard of 1995, Mickey Rivers and Bucky Dent, not to mention the wild cast of characters appearing in the Daily News, a paper that practically taught me to read.

A study published in 2000 by the ELCA revealed that of the cohort of newly minted pastors, 71 percent placed constraints upon where they could move due to the needs or desires of a spouse; 58 percent restricted their first call to a location in or near a large city; 36 percent were opposed to serving in a small congregation; and 32 percent were opposed to serving in a rural setting.

Release has claimed this deliberate strategy of persecution because many abductions take place in Upper Egypt, a poor, rural area many miles from Cairo where attitudes are ultra conservative and the persecution of Christians is most severe.

It combines the massive draw of rural blowouts like Bonnaroo and Coachella, but takes place in the heart of Chicago.

Seldom are ordained women placed in full charge of a local church, save in some small town and rural congregations that can not afford or find a man.

We see the people and place that made Berry into America's preeminent scribe of rural life, but we never see him, except in archival footage.

In place of the prevailingly rural economy to which, through the parish system, the Church had adapted itself, mining and manufacturing towns were rapidly emerging and the populations of existing cities were mounting and were outgrowing or making anachronistic the ecclesiastical structures of earlier days.

JP: Food for thought... but I have been trying to move to a more rural, quieter place for a couple of years now.

On the other hand, most of our rural communities are dramatically oversupplied with Protestant houses of worship, which might be good places to use for work of this kind.

Former President Bill Clinton, recognised for his poverty alleviation and rural development efforts, recognised coffee as a pillar of rural development during his participation in the 1st World Coffee Producers Forum that took place in Medellín, Colombia, 10 - 12 July.

The move by the Canadian backed local cattle company, which now manages 85,000 head of livestock across 600,000 hectares, comes at a time when major transactions have been taking place with billionaire Gina Rinehart, Andrew Forrest and Brett Blundy all having bought into the rural land and cattle markets.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

Coconuts are used fresh (within 24 - 48 hours of harvest) from small family farms on Mt. Banahaw and other rural places in Quezon Province, the coconut capital of the Philippines.

So I've been to many rural Guangxi places, but the rest of the country I've only seen the big cities (Shanghai, Beijing, Kunming, HK, Macau.)

Where does private funding come from in places like rural areas of Rust Belt states?

4) DO N'T BRING lots of cash: Except for in very rural areas, nearly any place you visit in Europe will have ATMs, and many spots take credit cards, too.

Samantha's vision for Pebble of providing a place close to their rural homes in which women could work flexible hours was just what over 5,000 rural women were looking for.

The discourse «the lives of mothers and babies in rural communities are placed at risk by widespread closures of maternity services» challenges the government to address a dangerous in - equity in maternity care.

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.

For example, city centers, suburbs, and rural areas often have very different interests, so I would argue that, to meet the purpose of districting in the first place, it makes more sense to put the city center, suburbs, and rural areas in their own districts to the maximum extent reasonably possible.

«Rural communities that already have high levels of volunteering may be better equipped to absorb additional voluntary roles, as the social connections and support structures are already in place,» says Dr Rutherford.

By the special grace of God I used to be a politician, I'm one of the people that people in the National Assembly will not accept and because there is an urgent need for us to take Nigeria out of recession and Post can contribute huge amounts of money to the National coffers that will be distribute among the tasks of government and most importantly, Post can render what we call financial inclusion service, that's getting the people in rural areas, farmers, artisans who don't have access to normal bank services because Post offices are scattered all over the rural places.

Inspector Korine Bishop, strategic rural policing inspector for Hampshire and Isle of Wight, said: «It is so important for all our officers to understand shooting sports and how these activities take place in the countryside.

My friend George in Clarence, a very pretty rural Erie County suburb a score of miles from downtown Buffalo, says his town is the kind of place where one uses a gallon of gas to go get a gallon of milk.

Door - to - door canvassing is out (unless you want to get shot at), phonebanking works in some places but not in others, internet access only reaches half of rural America and even direct mail won't find everyone regularly.

Given that images of England's bucolic countryside had formed such a central part of World War II home - front propaganda, politicians were adamant that post-war reconstruction should not take place at the expense of the rural environment.

All of which has placed incredible development pressures on rural - urban fringe communities.

It's a lovely rural to semi-rural place with a lot of history.

Events take place throughout the week between rural Sowerby Bridge and the heart of the city at Manchester's Piccadilly Basin.

A number of the targeted parks are tourism engines in financially strapped rural areas or the only places for outdoor recreation near urban ones.

The northern portion (places north of Interstate 287 / Cross Westchester Expressway - also) is seen as rural and wealthy; the southern portion (White Plains and south) is considered urban and poor.

Relatively unknown outside Nassau County, Ms. Rice came in second place at a recent straw poll of Democrats at the party's rural conference in Niagara Falls.

If it takes place after millions of people are removed from the electoral register we could see the biggest transfer of parliamentary representation and political power from urban to rural areas for more than a century.