Sentences with phrase «of urban people»

The church should respond by affirming the worth of urban people through challenging their hearts and minds with effective educational opportunities.

Moreover, the two major American parties are not primarily competitive interest groups, with one, for example, representing capital and the other labor, or one reflecting rural interests and the other the interests of urban people.

In Sarianidi's view, this harsh land of desert, marsh, and steppe may instead have served as a center in a broad, early trading network, the hub of a wheel connecting goods, ideas, and technologies among the earliest of urban peoples.

Not exact matches

Held back by police, they were waiting some distance away near the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, when the second explosion went off just as people were entering the government office.

«The whole strategy of [the Chinese Communist Party] to stay in power is to keep the urban people happy.

But if you're anything like me and a lot of other people, many of your runs will start on pavement, lead onto a park or woodland trail, and end up right back in urban or suburban environs.

The 2013 Hult Prize, which kicks off the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting for heads of state and leaders of businesses and nonprofits, will award $ 1 million to the sole startup idea that best secures food for undernourished communities — particularly for the 200 million people who live in urban slums.

Many people assume Zoox, Google, and Uber (which revealed its own driverless test car in May) will eventually launch their own urban fleets of on - demand autonomous vehicles.

Canada has 35 million people and more than 80 % of us are already urban.

More people from rural areas of China will move to urban areas, and then we will have a higher level of consumption.

Richard Florida, the urban studies theorist and author of «The Rise of the Creative Class» recently cited three particular Boulder ingredients that could help explain its start - up density: «talented people and a high quality of life that keeps them around, technological expertise, and an open - mindedness about new ways of doing things, which often comes from a strong counterculture.»

Pahon said part of the US civilian effort is training people on the ground on how to de-mine former urban battlefields.

Attempts by Jews to move their people out of the urban centers and into colonies on the land have not been successful save in the neighborhood of big cities or in special circumstances.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal blog Independent Street, she outlined Magic's qualifications, as summarized by reporter Kelly Spors: «He's started a string of successful businesses, could draw celebrity attention to a stodgy federal agency, cares about helping the disadvantaged and urban revitalization and aligns himself with smart people.»

«In as little as 10 years, we could have products on the market that revolutionize urban travel for millions of people,» said Lyasoff.

Urban Outfitters acquired a pizzeria chain last year as part of a plan to build complexes that feature a variety of its stores — it also owns Anthropologie and Free People — restaurants, and event spaces for concerts and the like.

But urban lifestyles, up to and including trendy bars, aren't just hip — they're a part of what powers a city's economic engines, bringing people together to explore new ideas, create companies, and build careers.

From deserted Olympic venues to silent amusement parks to hotels that haven't had guests in centuries, abandoned places continue to capture the imagination of urban explorers and curious people around the world.

Underscoring the breadth of the scrutiny, the people said, the Justice Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have discussed the possibility of striking a wide - ranging settlement to conclude many of the looming mortgage investigations from federal authorities and state attorneys general.

I would imagine in urban areas like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, which have significant populations of recent immigrants, there's probably a significant subset of people who fled from countries where governments do all sorts of nasty things with the information they collect about their citizens and who aren't all that keen to provide such information here (you might say, «sure, but Canada's not Iran», to which the answer would be «exactly»).

«This is a passion project for most people,» said Claire Nelson, owner of the Bureau of Urban Living, an accessories boutique, and one of the organizers of a loose network of local entrepreneurs that functions like a support group.

Public transit is a key piece of urban infrastructure, important for getting people where they want to go while limiting congestion and pollution.

At a moment when the Republicans are talking about entitlement reform, and Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is proposing to triple the rents of some of the poorest people in the country, the sight of big banks reporting surges in profits that were fuelled by tax cuts raises alarming moral questions.

And those views appear to feed the rural - urban divide: A 56 percent majority of rural residents says the federal government does more to help people living in and around large cities, while 37 percent feel they treat both urban and rural areas equally.

Images of the flooded metropolises of Houston, Jacksonville, and San Juan with overtopped dams, billowing sewage, and flooded homes show that torrential rain can be one of the most devastating consequences of hurricanes, especially in urban areas where concrete makes it harder for water to drain and where people can drown.

I'm very much looking forward to participating in this forum at the Urban Institute on Monday, where I'll be on a panel talking about the role of higher education in both the economy and the lives of the people in the economy.

This is the dark - side of the sweeping back - to - the - city movement of the past decade or two, which has brought affluent, highly educated people back to the urban cores of superstar cities, such as Toronto, New York, London, Paris and others.

If we are to believe in «majority rules» (and I think that most people in this province do), the reality is that the MAJORITY of people in this province live in urban areas, not rural ones.

It is kind of an urban myth, if you'll pardon the pun: there is a story afoot that people are leaving the suburbs and moving back to the cities.

It doesn't even matter if he is giving the people what they want — as unlikely as it is that the people who voted for Donald Trump for president did so because they love Thursday night cliffhangers about who will be the next secretary of housing and urban development.

With 350 million people slated to move into urban China in the next 20 years, developers are erecting the floor - space equivalent of two New York Cities every year.

You could say it combines the best of urban and suburban, with yearly bike races, easy access to public transportation, diverse people (and food), weekly farmers markets, art studios, and good schools.

The first is the redrawing of Highwood's boundaries where new electoral lines have transformed the riding from a large rural land base to a small, dense area of people that more closely resembles an urban riding.

The index doesn't reflect changes in the quality of items over time and can't tell us much about the spending patterns of the poor, or of people living outside of urban areas.

Jurisdictions have turned to mobility pricing to address a specific or combination of objectives, such as managing congestion in rapidly growing urban areas to facilitate the movement of people and goods, generating revenue for transportation infrastructure projects, maintenance and improvements, or environmental reasons.

This is not a 50/50 sort of proposition where it's just the people on the coast or the urban areas.

A second reason is that (so the planners believe) urban life uses less energy than suburban life, because people walk instead of drive, etc..

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

Groups of young, well - educated, active professionals have gathered in urban churches, smashing the stereotype in many Chinese people's minds of Christians as elderly, infirm, sick, or disabled.

As Fiorenza has observed, «Paul's advice to remain free from the marriage bond was a frontal assault upon the institutions of existing law and the general cultural ethos, especially since it was given to a people who lived in the urban centres of the Roman Empire.»

In a village the church may still be one of the centers of community life, whereas in urban areas when people move, they may find it hard to relate to a new church.

William H. Whyte, a leader in the study of modern urban street life, spent decades studying the patterns of diverse people on the move.

People make a lot of assumptions about women pastors — that they have to be aggressively ambitious, that they can only survive in a liberal and urban environment, that they can't serve in Reformed churches, that they must devote all their work and writing to defending their call.

Jane Jacobs, generally considered the founder of modern urban design, thought cities should take the everyday needs of people into account but did not mention religion or religious buildings in her foundational book.

As we move into the»90s with an economic structure that is killing poor people, a «war against drugs» that is a racist war against the urban poor, an unapologetic «post-feminist» contempt for women and girls and a mounting ecological crisis, we will need as much as ever to be able to create liberation in the midst of suffering.

If the suburb was the reverse side of the American family's plunge into the rush, complexity and work of urban life, it was there that people were met and received by the Christian church.

The district of Kahama urban is resided by more than 200,000 people.

As the changing socio - economic conditions of nineteenth - century urban, industrial America demanded of the church a reassessment of its understanding of people in society, it was the Social Gospel movement which arose to take seriously the reality of corporate sin and the need for corporate response.

When these are neglected and money is pumped instead into industrial development, the males move to the cities, destroying the communities which have sustained the people for thousands of years and creating huge urban slums.

The culture of the «freedom to choose», channeled by the Internet, movies, television, music, fashion, slogans, publicity, education programmes, NGOs, seduces ever more young people in all cultures, mainly in urban areas, but it manages to filter down to the local country areas.