Sentences with phrase «on the rural roads of»

During our drive on the rural roads of Georgia's scenic coast near Savannah, we sampled the Cooper version of the Clubman with a manual transmission, and then spent time in a Cooper S with both the manual and the automatic.

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Brennan Manning told the story of a priest in Ireland who, on a walking tour of a rural parish, saw an old peasant kneeling by the side of the road, praying.
While driving through a rural Italian village, Pope Francis shocked locals standing on the side of the road, by stopping his motorcade to meet a young disabled woman.
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.
Russian River Rising, More Rain on the Way: A driver in a Hummer became trapped in flood waters on a rural road west of Santa Rosa early Monday afternoon, generating a large emergency response including the Sonoma County sheriff's helicopter, a swift - water rescue team and a boat of firefighters...
The response to Petersen's push was generally positive, although concerns exist that neighbors may one day rise against an influx of wine - sipping tourists on their rural roads.
The statistics also show that traffic on rural A roads (94.3 Bn vehicle miles) and minor roads outside of urban areas (45.7 Bn vehicle miles) rose to record highs, each up around 2.4 % on last year.
The plans aim to improve productivity and connectivity of towns and cities across the country — tackling bottlenecks and traffic jams for road users, and taking away the misery of lorries and through - traffic thundering through rural villages on main roads.
Riding a horse to work would be an option if I had one, but non of us want to be dodging horses on our rural roads.
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,...
Also, the Spokesman quoted the task force as listing those factors as the poor state of rural road infrastructure and multiple revenue collecting points on the highways.
But also if you want to maintain a car on a road - and for those in my rural constituency, lack of public transport means you have to - it's also more expensive.»
The Enugu State Government said on Tuesday that it had set aside 22 rural roads for completion before the end of its tenure.
Upper East Regional Director of Food and Agriculture Francis Ennor, said the exercise will provide data on community facilities such as roads, hospitals and schools, among other things for proper policy interventions to propel the development of farmers in the rural areas.
«The issue of a lack of toilet facilities for our staff who are on the road all day is of course a sensitive one, particularly in rural areas where there are far fewer amenities,» chief executive Chris Bocock said.
Last year saw a record number of vehicles on our roads, especially in rural areas where bus services have been decimated.
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).
Your Excellency, I want to commend you for the unparalleled infrastructural projects, especially in the area of road construction both in urban and rural areas which you have bequeathed on Enugu State not to mention other roads that are still under construction.
The number of motor vehicle fatalities involving children under age 15 varies widely by state, but occurrences are more common in the South, and are most often associated with improperly or unused restraints and crashes on rural roads, a new review of child - related auto fatalities shows.
Filmed over three years, in their monastery in rural France and on the road in the USA, this visceral film is a meditation on a community grappling with existential questions and the everyday routine of monastic life.
Faces Places is built on such a simple concept, almost too slight for a feature documentary: Varda and mural artist JR go on a road trip across rural France to take photographs of the people they meet, and paste the pictures over local structures.
The bright red billboards with black lettering quickly become the talk of the town, despite being placed on a rural stretch of untraveled road outside the sleepy Missouri town of Ebbing.
A loose remake of an Icelandic film (Either Way), Prince Avalanche stars Rudd and Emile Hirsch as workers on a Texas road crew in 1988, repainting lines and replacing sign posts on rural routes after the devastating wildfire that occurred a year earlier.
Expanding on — and more expediently dramatizing — the philosophy of monotony that characterizes his earlier film El Custodio, Moreno wanders the streets, apartments, and rural suburban roads around the Argentine metropolis by way of a scrawny flaneur protagonist, Boris (Esteban Bigliardi), who's ejected from his terminally bored girlfriend's loft in the daintily circuitous dialogue of the opening sequence.
This simple exercise has become standard at Cold Springs, located on the rural outskirts of Reno — an area where wild horses sometimes roam the roads and the first dentist's office opened just a year ago.
Voices of Perfectionism: Perfectionistic Gifted Adolescents in a Rural Middle School The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, University of Connecticut, 362 Fairfield Road, U-7, Storrs, CT 06026 - 2007; http://www.gifted.uconn.edu.
It offered pretty good feel and feedback through the steering wheel as we pushed through the esses of a rural road on the outskirts of Ann Arbor.
It was ready to hit the road and so was I, with a supply of caffeine in the back seat ample enough to keep a small child up for days on end, a Spotify account to keep me entertained through thousands of miles of featureless farmland, and the M2's 360 - hp turbocharged straight - six engine constantly willing to park my butt in a rural jail for flagrant disregard for speed limits.
A brief ride on rural roads near the company's headquarters in central England gave the impression that it sets new standards for this burgeoning sector of the market.
The Focus is one of the most enjoyable of these cars to drive on twisty rural roads, as the chassis clings to the pavement through the bends with a handling balance that is decidedly European.
On our route's smooth, winding roads through rural Tennessee, the ride was composed and surprisingly firm, lending the Rogue a buttoned - down demeanor that's better than we expected given the flabbier dynamics of the Nissan Altima and Sentra sedans.
However, after driving the 2.5 - liter and the V - 6 models back - to - back on the winding roads of rural Tennessee, I was much more impressed with the smoothness of the V - 6 engine.
Enjoying a sports car on rural roads isn't about setting the absolute fastest lap time, finding the last fraction of a g of grip, or threshold braking.
A couple of weeks after I got home, I learned I'd racked up two speed - camera tickets on rural roads once I left the autobahn.
On each of these rural roads, whether straight and flat or winding and hilly, I'm running the engine up and down through third, fourth, and fifth gear, and looking far through corners so I can trace a smooth line to the next bend.
Quite the contrary: in this particular seventy - two - hour contest, we staked out a remote, radar - free environment and targeted a set of breathtaking primary and secondary roads where we could drive the rubber socks off of three remarkable, 500 - plus - hp, high - performance boardroom haulers on a no - holds - barred tour de force of rural Upper Bavaria, Salzburg, and Tyrol.
The Enclave really was in its element on the freeway, where it invites you to run up the miles, but it didn't feel out of place or control while winding around rural mountain roads.
The showdown was staged on the «world's fastest» racetrack in Rockingham, Northamptonshire, England (day one), as well as on the most challenging rural roads of North Wales (day two).
After a week of driving mostly sporty Automobile of the Year and All - Star candidates on rural roads, it was quite a switch to find myself negotiating downtown Ann Arbor in this giant dualie pickup.
At night, driving on a rural road in Limpopo, the Volvo S90 jammed on the brakes before I could even see a warthog about to jump out of the bushes into my path, whilst the Active High Beam LED headlamps illuminated anything and everything in visible range.
There's a nondescript shed on a rural road northeast of Oshawa, Ont.
On the drive, which was comprised of delightfully twisty rural roads and a lengthy stint on the Autobahn averaging 160 km / h, the diesel returned an average of 7.1 L / 100 kilometreOn the drive, which was comprised of delightfully twisty rural roads and a lengthy stint on the Autobahn averaging 160 km / h, the diesel returned an average of 7.1 L / 100 kilometreon the Autobahn averaging 160 km / h, the diesel returned an average of 7.1 L / 100 kilometres.
«Aside from its industry - first on - road pursuit capability, this purpose - built pickup can comfortably seat five, while providing capability in off - road patrol situations for officers in rural environments patrolled by sheriff's departments, border patrol operations and the Department of Natural Resources.»
O'Connor said he believes women are looking for a rugged vehicle that's easy to get in and out of and that takes the stress out of driving in bad weather or in rural areas on poorly paved roads.
Handling on my test car's upgraded 19 - inch Cavo wheels and 255 / 35 - series Continental ContiSportContact summer rubber was confidence inspiring, even when pushing a bit on the wet and winding heavily forested rural roads outside of Seattle.
I live in a very rural area and on a dirt road that is designated for SUVS and I had no problems getting in and out of my residence which is a feat in and of its self as the roads are not maintained well in this area.
The drivetrain's Auto mode brings smooth gearbox shifts, a continuously variable damping suspension that gobbles ups road imperfections and lighter steering for my leisurely ride on rural roads in Maine and New Hampshire, many of which feature painfully slow 30 - mph speed limits.
Ramsey lost control of his 1999 Ford Expedition on Tuesday after he veered onto the shoulder of the two - lane rural road to avoid an oncoming motorcycle, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
In the German study, nearly two - thirds of car - to - car small overlap front crashes occurred on rural roads, with 37 percent on or near a curve.
At the time, police claimed she was going too fast on a wet, rural road, although it later came out through the black box that her car's ignition had come out of the «run» position at least three seconds before the accident (the max amount of time a black box records before a wreck), disabling her airbags, power steering and anti-lock brakes.
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