Sentences with phrase «pockets of the country»

Furthermore, rightly or wrongly, backing for democracy and the rule of law is not present in significant pockets of the country.

While in this small pocket of the country, she comes across a variety of characters — some cruel, some kind, and some finding their way just like she is.

Some states have much more severe issues with uninsured motorists, with a few pockets of the country seeing as many as a third of their registered vehicles on the roads with no insurance.

Certainly the sales figures could be healthier and reports came out of Japan yesterday claiming that only pockets of the country was lining up for a Vita.

The clean - up operation has begun across pockets of the country after localised flooding caused by thunderstorms... More

Which raises another point: Only certain pockets of the country have ever been willing to make a huge fuss over a football coach, and the Deep South may be the last of them.

Just because it's nice and sunny here at the same time that winter blizzards are raging in other pockets of the country doesn't mean we don't know how to do a great holiday light display.

Cradle Cross is a town out of time — battered by war and yet linked to a distant past, an isolated pocket of the country whose customs and views have remained intact since medieval times, where talismans protect loved ones and rituals can help wring away the grief of loss.

But there are also pockets of the country that probably don't get the attention they deserve from travelers, whether within the U.S. or from abroad.

Despite that, no provinces or territories have a presumption in favour of equal parenting, although Colman believes there are pockets of the country where judges have a tendency to favour such arrangements.

«There are still pockets of the country with high zombie foreclosure rates, and high vacant property rates in general, primarily in the Rust Belt and parts of the Northeast and Southeast — driven in large part by a high share of non-owner occupied vacant properties in those areas.

... the idea of the harbormaster has taken shape in a variety of forms, in a few pockets of our country.

The fact that some pockets of the country are slower to change has no bearing on whether or not this is actual discrimination.

-- Some pockets of the country had substantial numbers of students opting out of standardized tests.

Thompson believes while Pilates is still popular in some pockets of the country, enthusiasm has waned in Atlanta and elsewhere in recent years.