Sentences with phrase «rural areas like»

«By and large, rural America is in decline... except for select rural areas like the energy belt (in the Great Plains),» Lang said.

Nokia Lumia 830 is the first LTE - capable Windows phone at Telstra, so you can try the improved 4GX mobile networks in rural areas like Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Darwin and other cities around the country.

The partnership with telecom companies sees Facebook building drones that rain Internet down on rural areas like Google's Project Loon Balloons, and building data compression technologies.

Decade - old startup d.light has sold solar - powered lanterns and lights to millions of customers in off - grid rural areas like Sub-Saharan Africa.

One additional warning about Cambodia: Never wander off in rural areas like forests or rice paddies without a guide.

The train travels through Zurich, one of Switzerland's most important cities, as well as more rural areas like Lake Walen and the Bundner Herrschaft wine region.

In rural areas like theirs with few options for activities to keep kids occupied, funding for after school programs can be a real boon.

Continue reading «Steve Barclay uses his maiden speech to call for rural areas like his to get their fair share of the nation's resources»»

The districts most in need of state aid tend to be in low income and rural areas like St. Lawrence County.

Even in rural areas like Elko, we had 45 people show up to an office opening.»

The study, titled Impossible Choices, spoke to almost 200 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 in 20 focus groups across 10 different communities — including big cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as rural areas like rural North Carolina and eastern Oregon — who were members of families facing poverty and food insecurity.

Reflecting on their experience during Round 1, the coalition decided rural areas liked their local schools too much to want to embrace the tax - credit idea.

If you live in a rural area like Delta or Airville, you might get a package delivered that sits on your front porch all day.

If you live in a rural area like Delta or Airville, you might get a package delivered that sits on your front porch all day.

Unlike other government loan programs, like the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans, the home must be located in a designated rural area like Kirkland in order to...

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The governor's offices of several states with rural areas who have struggled with budget shortfalls since 2017, like Missouri, Ohio, and West Virginia, did not respond to request for comment.

For example, as more and more people move out of rural areas and into cities, the transportation infrastructures in cities are being stressed like never before.

«The principle that has secured the universal service is one where the high density areas, like the big cities, subsidize the rural areas,» said Dave Ward, the CWU's deputy general secretary.

The US is suffering from a deadly opioid epidemic, especially in rural areas, thanks to the widespread use of drugs like OxyContin as painkillers.

The service could be especially useful for those living in rural areas where broadband access is currently limited and allegedly can provide «fiber - like speeds.»

At smaller - but - modern clinics, like Hospital America or Clinica Omega, you'll pay 50 - 75 % less, and in rural areas a doctor's visit can be far less.

The geographic areas that CFs serve vary in size from entire states or regions of a state (e.g. Southeastern Texas) to major metropolitan cities like New York City to rural counties with populations less than 2,500.

Critics are questioning the logistics of the proposal, like how SNAP recipients and rural areas would receive their boxes or what would happen with those with food sensitivities or allergies.

There is a prayer in a recent hymnbook which goes something like this: Lord, bless all those who live in rural areas; help them to appreciate the goodness of nature and be open to those different from themselves.

sorry, but you're a bit off or you have a very rosy colored version of what it's like in the rural areas.

My problem is I live in a rural area and don't even know where the homeless sleep to be able to go out and talk to them like you see in the city.

Many of the few (about ten million) who are close to the major cities or in so - called white rural areas have been forcibly relocated to the Homelands, remote tribal reservations like the Transkei, Bophuthatswana, or Venda, that are allegedly ancestral.

In addition, our producers are small family businesses that live in rural areas away from the pollution of the cities, like on Mt. Banahaw.

Scott saw brick ovens as a way of bringing neighbors in rural areas together — building the ovens was like a barn - raising.

If you've never driven through rural Iowa or an area like it, I could understand the confusion.

Where does private funding come from in places like rural areas of Rust Belt states?

Most of the time things are fine anyway but if something does go wrong it's not like we have to spend an hour in the car trying to get to a medical facility, like I know can be the case for some Americans, especially in the more rural areas.

«I understand the residents of Long Grove want to keep the area very, very rural because that's the way they remember it and that's how they like it.

Although the area remained rural and sparsely populated until late in the 19th Century, the wooded setting and wide thoroughfares of Edgewater Glen attracted homesteaders like Krantz.

Question: We know about transportation programmes in Nigeria, how do you intend to go about delivering parcels and packages to remote areas like rural areas, villages?

The report released by the Senate Health and Senate Environmental Conservation committees, comes more than a year after state officials responded to cases of chemical contamination of water in rural communities like Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh — the result of the area's industrial past.

The environment, food and rural affairs committee recently recommended that the government publish Brexit impact assessments on a range of agricultural areas before it releases any legislation on what the sector will look like after Brexit.

And in a state like New York where the party lines are drawn Democratic for the most part in urban areas and Republican in the suburbs and rural reaches, it's easy to figure out who is the winning bet, or you could say, a smart investment.

«There is no one, absolutely no one, in Congress who is more of a champion» for Trump, said former GOP Rep. Tom Reynolds, who, like Collins, represented suburban Buffalo and rural areas stretching east to Rochester.

Akshar believes ridesharing will not only benefit urban areas like the City of Binghamton but also rural areas as well.

«And it can not be right that those peers who do live outside London are less likely to be from great cities like Birmingham, Liverpool and Bristol than they are to be living in less - populated rural areas.

In a congressional district that encompasses cash - strapped, potentially gas - rich Sullivan County, New York City's watershed, eco-sensitive communities like Woodstock and various rural areas on the east side of the Hudson River, incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson and challenger Sean Eldridge are on the campaign trail seeking to define their own, and their opponent's, positions on climate change, energy policy and perhaps most critically fracking.

A fairly small crowd showed up to hear what the budget would do to programs like cleaning up the Great Lakes and bus service in rural areas to help county residents move around.

Catholic migration to rural areas was largely confined to the North and the West, and largely dates to the 19th century, after which further Catholic migration to the U.S. was largely to large urban areas, (like all other forms of immigration to the U.S).

The cost of living is lower in most rural areas than in most urban areas, although part of that lower cost of living is attributable to subsidies of rural governmental functions, (like road and bridge maintenance and K - 12 education), by residents of more urban areas.

Military spending on expensive major weapons systems built in large cities like aircraft, ships, and submarines, has grown much faster than military spending on personnel, (which has actually declined as military spending overall has surged), who frequently hail from rural areas.

Poloncarz added, «As I've said many times, our county is actually like a small state with urban, suburban and rural areas and a population that is equal to that of five states.

The Town Board said it would be difficult to set decibel limits that would work for the entire town, which includes dense areas like Barclay Heights and very rural areas.

«It is no surprise that business people are capitalizing on the sale of these facilities at a higher price, since majority of these farmers live in the rural areas and would not like to travel thus far to the banking facilities in order to benefit from these facilities.

The district, which includes the city of Peekskill, as well as rural areas and affluent suburban communities like Pound Ridge and Bedford, has traditionally voted Republican, though Democratic registration has been persistently climbing.