Sentences with phrase «population left the city»

In the aftermath, almost a fifth of its population left the city.

A quarter of the population left the city.

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Baltimore suffered another loss in population last year as more than 5,300 people left the city, continuing a downward trend that accelerated after the 2015 unrest and ensuing spike in crime.

Since the 1950s, millions of peasants have left their villages because of guerrilla and military violence or to seek a better life in the cities, changing the balance of Latin America's population from rural to urban.

For decades white people with money fled the city for the suburbs, leaving behind a mostly brown and black population that was often bereft of resources.

Distressed by the vices of the nominally Christian population, in his teens he left the city and adopted the life of a hermit.

What's easy about getting into your car... heading back inside because you forgot your gate key... getting back into the car... adjusting EVERYTHING because your husband drove last... avoiding mass duck / chicken populations on the drive down the driveway... heading out the gate, driving 50 km to the city... taking the dogs for a walk for at least 30 minutes in the city because you can't leave them at home because they eat the furniture... leave the dogs in the car HOPING that you walked them enough so they don't eat the car.

The closest significant city is Lodwar (population: 49,000), 76 miles away, and the roads between it and the camp have been eaten away leaving teeth - crushing potholes.

(Berkeley, CA has had a similar tax since 2014, but given the city's left - leaning population, some viewed it as an anomaly.)

IIRC, something like half the population of New Orleans left the city for at least six months.

These include Barnsley, Doncaster, Grimsby, Mansfield, Middlesbrough, Southend, Stoke, Sunderland, Wakefield and Wigan — often ageing, post-industrial cities associated with the demographic Matthew Goodwin and Rob Ford identify as the «left behind»: older, whiter, less educated and more working class than the population as a whole.

But the problem is more acute for Goldsmith because politically, London is a left - leaning city, with liberal values and a large ethnic minority population.

That leaves about 80 percent of the city's population underserved.

Last time the districts were redrawn, Republicans led the governing body and managed to skew the process in their own favor — leaving most of the underpopulated districts upstate, while the growing populations in the New York City region went unrecognized by a matching increase in proportional representation.

«Reapportionment and term limits combined to make the City Council younger, a little bit further to the left, perhaps less a product of traditional political organizations or machines, and demographically, a little more like the population of the city,» said Kenneth Sherrill, Chair of the Political Science Department at Hunter CollCity Council younger, a little bit further to the left, perhaps less a product of traditional political organizations or machines, and demographically, a little more like the population of the city,» said Kenneth Sherrill, Chair of the Political Science Department at Hunter Collcity,» said Kenneth Sherrill, Chair of the Political Science Department at Hunter College.

«Our population is growing and we are adding jobs faster than other parts of the City,» she stated, addressing the crowd of young Democrats, which ranged in ages from 21 - 36, «in order take advantage of these trends and maximize outcomes for those who have been left behind for far too long, we will need to engage you and uplift your voices.»

But in recent decades, the district's African - American population has declined as some blacks leave the city, many for the south, while Latinos and West Africans move into the district, Naison said.

The poor, largely African American population that remained was left with a city that couldn't afford to take care of itself.

The population meanwhile grows by 2.5 per cent a year, and every day a thousand people leave the chronically overcrowded black farming areas for the cities.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has a population of 638,300, but that doesn't necessarily mean singles are meeting each other left and right.

Prior to World War II, Toronto's nascent Greek population of approximately 3,000 was concentrated in the area bounded by Yonge Street, Carlton From top left: Downtown Toronto viewed from the Toronto Islands, City Hall, the Ontario Legislative Building, Casa Loma, Prince Edward Viaduct, and the

They point, for example, to President Bush's No Child Left Behind law (enacted in 2002), mayoral governance of schools recently instituted in some cities, and the creation of a small number (4,638) of charter schools that serve less than 3 % of the U.S. school - age population.

The point is that sizable populations in need of close supervision for a host of problems that often have nothing to do with education are simply left adrift in large city high schools.

However, that didn't stop people from ultimately leaving the city in a mass exodus — the population of New Orleans dropped from 484,674 in April 2000 to 230,172 in July 2006 (right around the end of the foreclosure moratorium).

Out of the 100 cities with the highest population of people 65 and older, renting made more financial sense in 98 of the cities, for those not considering leaving the home equity as inheritance.

Not to be left out of the picture, West Valley City, a Salt Lake suburb with a population of 129,000, passed a council resolution in February to go no - kill.

Immerse yourself in ancient Roman history when we stop at Pont Du Gard, a UNESCO World Heritage Site built in the 1st century; visit the amphitheater in Arles, the city with the most Roman remains outside of Rome, Then, moving on to the Middle Ages, visit Rocamadour, a town perched high on a cliff; walk by the ancient battlements in the beautifully preserved, medieval town of Carcassonne; and visit Beaune's Hôtel - Dieu charity hospital, built in 1443 after the Hundred Years» War left many of the town's population destitute..

With a population of roughly 300,000 Palma's past leaders have left their mark on the city with its impressive buildings which includes the beautiful Le Seu Cathedral.

But the assailants also brought Old World diseases, disseminating the native population and thus the city was left deserted.

The city will not only be bigger, but will actually show more signs of Gotham's population than ever before, meaning the «city has been evacuated» plot thread is being left by the wayside (which is smart, because my primary concern with the latter Arkham games is just how empty and lifeless the world feels).

The airport building site is located to the left of the town's city limits, and requires 140,000 population to unlock.

After World War II, populations shifted from the city to the suburbs and newly built highways cut through thriving neighborhoods, leaving isolated pockets within major urban centers.

They stayed in Prague for five months, leaving as the city was unable to handle its already substantial population of German refugees.

After peaking in population in 1950, the city began to feel the effects of large - scale migration to the suburbs, a downturn in industry and commerce as businesses left for cheaper places, an increase in crime and social disorder, and an upturn in its welfare burden — all of which led to a fiscal crisis that pushed the city on the verge of complete collapse.

The 20 - square - mile municipality, the smallest city in Massachusetts, now has a population of less than 14,000; it lost 4,000 jobs in 1985 with the closure of Mass MoCA's predecessor in the buildings, Sprague Electric Co., and about as many residents left over the next 15 years.

Where Australia's other capital cities are growing so fast that they look like bursting, Adelaide's population is shrinking; the best and brightest exit as fast their Commodores can carry them, leaving an ageing population and a -LSB-...]

Mark Lynas (left), with Bob May (right) at the Oxford is My World lectures, organised by Oxford City Council, to persuade its population to cut their CO2 emissions

The house, foot paths, roads all have to take some space, let's call it 3.5 acres per household to generate enough produce to feed themselves (all 10 of them), plus have enough left over to sell to feed the nearby city supposedly at 10 or 20 times the population density.

In fact we can quite easily blame ongoing desiccation for the downfall of Islamic civilization and the rise of Christianity — the population of North Africa dwindled to nearly nothing, cutting off the Maghrib from Baghdad, leaving great cities like Timbuctu as minor outposts, and leaving cities like Sabratha empty.

White flight has left the city with a majority African American population.

has been an obvious trend that the population in general and parents in particular leave the countryside to bigger cities or more developed countries for employment opportunities.

In Vietnam, it has been an obvious trend that the population in general and parents in particular leave the countryside to bigger cities or more developed countries for employment opportunities.

On cities where population grows fast and there's no too much space left for housing; prices can increase a lot.

It's a mini-Detroit type market, where population declines due to the auto industry's flight have hollowed out the city and left a devastated housing market with more supply and demand.