Sentences with phrase «rural life as»

His early watercolors depict America's rural life as well as the seaside.

We watch the passing parade of rural life as we trek, stopping along the way to chat with village women and farmers amid their daily work routine..

Not exact matches

Growing up in rural Michigan, Jesse Vollmar watched as technology transformed the world around him, while life on the farm remained labor - intensive and stuck in the past.

While my family and I love our community in rural Maine, my work as a professional speaker necessitates living closer to an international airport, so we made the decision to move closer to Portland this summer.

Sprint's CEO, Marcelo Claure, added: «We intend to bring this same competitive disruption as we look to build the world's best 5G network that will make the US a hotbed for innovation and will redefine the way consumers live and work across the US, including in rural America.»

In Uganda — and since last year in Kenya — more than 1,000 Living Goods «community health promoters» in bright blue T - shirts make their rounds through urban communities and rural neighborhoods, peddling an assortment of malaria medicine, fortified cereals, vitamins and soap, as well as larger items such as cookstoves, solar lanterns and bednets.

«We intend to bring this same competitive disruption as we look to build the world's best 5G network that will make the U.S. a hotbed for innovation and will redefine the way consumers live and work across the U.S., including in rural America.

As of June 2013, there are 59.6 million users in Rural India who have accessed internet at least once in their lives.

Low - and moderate - income families who live in rural areas can apply for a USDA - guaranteed home loan as long as they meet income and credit history requirements.

Chinese citizens receive an urban or rural hukou which officially identifies them as residents of a specific area and which allows them to live and work only in that area.

Borrowers are required to live in a rural area, as defined by the USDA.

The products make life better for billions of people, dominating their respective niches (in some places, such as rural India, Colgate sometimes comes near holding an astounding 80 % market share).

Other important considerations around fairness must also be addressed, such as whether to provide charge - free access options or routes to ensure accessibility and inclusivity, whether to charge individuals a congestion fee for driving where alternative modes of transportation are not available (e.g. the lack of public transit in rural areas), whether the charge for commercial and private vehicles differs or not, and whether individuals living further away from urban areas and thus travelling further distances should face a higher charge than individuals living in urban areas.

It brought to mind my own experience with the funeral of a dear lady who'd lived what we call around here «a hard life» and was best known in the small rural community as «the bootlegger's widow.»

Rector at the village parish of Bemerton, England, for the last three years of his life, Herbert's The Country Parson — later known as A Priest in his Temple — is his compilation of advice for rural Anglican clergymen.

My role as a non-Indian, a Lutheran pastor and a Western - trained psychotherapist was first challenged years ago while I was working and living with a number of Chippewas, members of my first rural parish in northern Michigan.

They go into painstaking detail as to how late Bronze Age Jewish rural life should be led, dictating how they should eat, what they should eat, how they should farm, how they should interact with other late Bronze Age Jews, how they should practice their religion.

Eliade has also documented the extreme persistence of this style of ordering life into a story which is not open to the new, in the rural cultures of Europe right down to the time of his own youth, and not only so, but he brilliantly predicted the resurgence of this kind of life story in the counterculture in a book which he wrote as long ago as the 1940's.2

«A better perception of the rural background of the parables of Jesus» as Legrand concludes, «helps better to appreciate the roots of Jesus in Galilean village life and his originality as a symbol maker.

The modern city, where more and more of us want to live, enjoys its munificence at the expense of the rural areas as Arthur E. Holt has forcibly brought home in This Nation Under God.6 Those fortunate enough to live in suburbs or other desirable residential districts enjoy their space and light partly through the exploitation of the crowded and blighted areas.

I live in a rural Ontario and we're just as likely to find BC produce in the farmer's market.

As we live somewhere rural, this appeals to me.

The kick - off was scheduled at 13:45 (CAT) meaning that I will have to leave home at 16:00 pm to go to work after the game and still have to travel about 173 km using public transport which is also not easily accessible as I live in a rural area.

As I now live in rural Norfolk due to cost I am unable to attend matches, although I did go to The Emirates to watch the FA Cup game against Plymouth last season, it truly is a magnificent stadium.

As you'll know if you're a regular Mum's the Word reader, last September we moved to a rural location about ten miles away from where we'd lived for the previous 9 years.

She practiced in Portland as a home birth midwife and has lived and practiced in rural Jamaica.

Our family had recently relocated to Northeast Iowa where I had been called as the pastor of a small, rural church and we had the joy of living in a 99 year old Iowa farmhouse that the church owns as its parsonage.

It is far more than you will find in other seats, making it perfect for families that live in rural areas that might not get as much support on their roads.

For rural and remote living children, lakes and rivers serve as transportation routes as well as sources of recreation.

Right, because presumably those babies live in rural villages or in cities where peeing down a hole or in the gutter isn't viewed as unsanitary or unseemly.

The inequity experienced by pregnant women living in rural and remote locations forced to travel long distances to access maternity care, is raised as a failure of government to provide essential services to these communities [31 — 33] placing lives at risk.

According to Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign, there are 23.5 million Americans — including 6.5 million children — who live in rural and urban areas across the country who lack access to convenient and affordable nutritious foods known as «food deserts.»

They are not made on a machine but are actually hand - knit by women, providing jobs and income for the indigenous women in rural Bolivia as an extra thing as they go about their lives.

As much as the renewal of mayoral control looks like a battle between city - based Democrats who back de Blasio and Long Island and rural Republicans who oppose him, it is city legislators whose constituents live within the system and who want to have a nuanced discussion about reforming iAs much as the renewal of mayoral control looks like a battle between city - based Democrats who back de Blasio and Long Island and rural Republicans who oppose him, it is city legislators whose constituents live within the system and who want to have a nuanced discussion about reforming ias the renewal of mayoral control looks like a battle between city - based Democrats who back de Blasio and Long Island and rural Republicans who oppose him, it is city legislators whose constituents live within the system and who want to have a nuanced discussion about reforming it.

Over the last few decades which portions of the average rural voter's disposable income in dollars, (or if there is no change, their quality of life), have consistently improved as a result of Republican policies, relative to Democratic policies?

Rural areas have a more solitary lifestyle, less affected by or dependent upon governments or other people, because neither the government nor other people tend to play as large a role in a rural resident's Rural areas have a more solitary lifestyle, less affected by or dependent upon governments or other people, because neither the government nor other people tend to play as large a role in a rural resident's rural resident's life.

It's not easy for gay youth in rural British Columbia: «Gay or bisexual teenage boys living in rural B.C. are nearly twice as likely to have attempted suicide and been physically sexually harassed in the past year than their peers in urban centres.»

As a result, communities like Kingston and Wawarsing, which have a high proportion of residents living under the poverty line, end up bearing the lion's share of Safety Net costs while wealthier or more rural towns like Woodstock and Marbletown see minimal impact.

He added that the construction of a standard road network would ensure the complement other economic development efforts as it would enable people living in the rural areas to convey their products from the farms without overwhelming challenges.

Other achievements, according to the Organized Labour include, «payment of 13th Month salary as Christmas bonus to the state workers; elaborate infrastructural developments of both urban and rural areas of the state through unique fiscal management of the state's meager resources; transformation of the education, agriculture and health sectors, other areas of governance which have improved the quality of lives of the people of Enugu State; approval of payment of arrears of salaries of 731 former staff of some state parastatals and also, the regularization of 42 casual staff of the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Parklane Enugu, as permanent staff of the institution», among others.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

Most patients live in suburban and rural areas, have impaired mobility and driving ability, and are faced with the challenge of making frequent trips to the doctor's office — a task that becomes more difficult as the disease progresses.

«Location also mattered, as people living in rural areas had higher rates of diagnosed diabetes than those in urban areas, and the South had the highest rates of various regions in the United States,» Towne said.

In spite of such known urban pressures on health as air and water pollution, water shortage, overcrowding, poor housing, the stresses of city transportation and the generally accelerated pace of city life, there is no substantial evidence from the National Health Survey that the overall health of the urban resident is worse than that of the rural resident.

In a study, the share of college graduates — often referred to as human capital — and the quality of life in a community were found to significantly contribute to economic growth, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

As a result, fewer than half of rural women live within a 30 - minute drive of the nearest hospital offering obstetric services.

For instance, the Rockefeller Foundation published a highly influential report, «Good Health at Low Cost,» promoting China's patriotic health campaign, Costa Rica's universal health insurance, Sri Lanka's land reform movement and Kerala's rural nurse - midwives as reasons residents of these areas were living better.

A new examination of remoteness as a barrier to health care, published online in the Journal of Global Health, notes that most surveys and policy documents categorize families as living either in an urban or rural setting, and this dichotomy can mask disparities of the most remote families.

According to the UN, in 2009, for the first time in history, the balance has tipped in favour of more people living in urban areas as opposed to rural areas.

The study also found the prevalence of AMD is higher among Chinese Americans as compared to the Chinese population living in urban / rural China, suggesting the influence of environmental or behavioral factors should be considered.