Sentences with phrase «once rural town»

Several earthquake analysts focused on the Himalayas said they would be surprised if the death toll ended up lower than 10,000 once rural towns and villages, hammered by landslides and building collapses, finish assessing losses.

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Rural areas emptied, with once - thriving regional centers transformed into ghost towns that have never been able to bounce back.
Like Welty, Nordan gave us portraits of families struggling with their relation to a place — the Delta, the rural town, the backwoods — that provided them with an identity which was at once limiting and constricting as well as liberating.
Her close relationship with her mentor Raoul De Keyser, an abstract painter who favored a style that was at once intuitive, economical, and ever so subtly referential, preceded (and predicted) her gradual transition to a similar brand of abstraction around 1995, about the same time that she moved a half hour's drive outside of Ghent to the rural town of Paulatem.
Her close relationship with her mentor Raoul De Keyser, an abstract painter who favored a style that was at once intuitive, economical, and ever so subtly referential, preceded (and predicted) her gradual transition to a similar brand of abstraction around 1995, about the same time that she moved a half hour's drive outside of Ghent to the rural town
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