Sentences with phrase «small town people»

But I also think that in times of adversity small town people are more likely to help each other out.

This is a story of bold, stubborn small town people who feel they have nothing to lose and because of this little thought before action takes place.

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We are headquartered in a small town, so I use a small private plane combined with commercial air to connect with as many clients and customers as I can in person at tradeshows and special events.

Business owners operating out of small towns need to know what kind of people -LSB-...]

Life in small towns differs from life in big cities in a lot of ways, including how people look for jobs.

Austin is essentially a small town that became a bigger town (of about 1 million people) that now hosts a gargantuan conference.

Model Bakery, a longtime fixture of Napa's Main Street in St. Helena, went from small - town gem to international sensation last spring when Oprah Winfrey told People magazine that her biggest luxury is having their English muffins flown in.

A swathe of small towns across middle America will be rolling out the red carpet for people clamoring to see the total solar eclipse on August 21 — the first coast - to - coast total solar eclipse in the U.S. since 1918 — only visible from a few places.

«Being in a small town like we are, it's one more way for people to recognize you.»

That includes a focus on communities of color, the military community, LGBTQ, people with disabilities and those in small towns and cities.

The first person to get Google Balloon Internet access this week was Charles Nimmo, a farmer and entrepreneur in the small town of Leeston.

The big city with a small town vibe is known for its music scene, and for being home to the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference and as well as the Whole Foods HQ, but where it really shines is in its culinary scene, which ranges from barbecue that people wait hours in line for to all kinds of tacos.

Colonial Charleston numbers just over 650,000 people, but there's plenty to do in this small town and its tax rates are competitive.

Ultimately, your tribe can enjoy the same sense of community we find in small towns — people know each other, like each other, and help each other.

Those at start - ups in New York repeatedly mention the intimacy of the relatively small but tight - knit industry here — in fact, they may be the only people who say they moved to New York because they liked its small - town vibe.

Throughout this time, the small town Sandusky, Ohio values have allowed us to do business in the community where we live with the people we see every day.

«Expats value the improved QUALITY of life... the beautiful empty beaches, the camaraderie and small - town feel, the friendliness and helpfulness of the people, and the adventure of it all.

OTTAWA — The police said on Sunday that at least five people had died and 40 were missing after runaway railroad tank cars filled with oil derailed and exploded in a small Quebec town.

That accident left 47 people dead and released millions of litres of oil into the air, water and soil when the runaway train crashed in the small Quebec town.

Hurricane Harvey, Maria, and Irma have swept through towns, big and small, and displaced hundreds of thousands of people across multiple states.

The area offers a small - town feel within the big city that draw in people from around the world.

With a population of just over 45,000 people, Cornwall is an «in - the - middle» kind of place — not quite large enough to be a city, but certainly bigger than a small town, and as a Read more...

After visiting the state and seeing the amazing landscapes, friendly people, and small town charm it has to offer, we'd have to say we agree.

The most offensive aspect of Obama's assessment was its crude anthropological reductionism, the assumption that he understood the people of the small towns better than they understood themselves.

I went to a small town in the midwest to work for a non-profit thinking it'd be like chicken - soup - for the soul... INSTEAD it was a fundamentalist nightmare... it was NOT just small town mindedness... I could hardly find a church with out people wondering — why is this attractive woman in her early 30's unwed (or at least divorced with 3 kids) people were cold and unfathomable judgmental and sometimes downright hostile eager to quote scriptures seemingly un-lead by the Holy Spirit.

People are making their lives complicated more than they need to by making world problems their problems; go to some small town and ask farmer's wife what is her biggest worry when she wakes up!!

People in small towns value pastors in terms of their ability to be known and liked.

In the summer of 2010, an algae bloom forced the closure of a small swampy pond near the center of Mont Vernon, a storybook New Hampshire town of 2,400 people.

The Qadiani organization is at present controlled from Ribwa, a small town in the Punjab which is peopled exclusively by the followers of Ghulam Ahmad, whose successor, known as the Second Messiah, is the head of the organization.

Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time off to celebrate our religious holidays as they are largely taken for granted.

I always end up feeling a bit left out when people write about God as present mostly in cities — after all, I live in a small town in western Canada.

If you live in a small town and know that the people on the street corners are really homeless, your plan should work.

It consisted mainly of small farmers and, near the sea of Galilee, of fishermen, with artisans like carpenters and tanners, with enough shepherds to make the symbols of the lost sheep and the good shepherd meaningful, and with small - town merchants to provide for the exchange of the few goods needed to meet the simple requirements of the people.

If you have one homeless guy in your small town who sleeps on the city square, you would probably notice if several other people sat with him on Christmas day, pretending to be homeless so they can receive new blankets and sleeping bags.

Updike is most lyrical when describing his youth in the small eastern Pennsylvania town of Shillington, poignantly evoking the people and the places which served as his defining presences.

So begins Pope Michael, a weird, intriguing, and distressing documentary about a young man in a small town in rural eastern Kansas who, after being elected by six people, a group that included his parents and himself, claimed to be the Bishop of Rome.

This carpenter came from a small town of no acclaim and partnered with 12 people to spread a movement that would ultimately shape the rest of the world.

I once pastored a church in a small town with a 2000 Census population of 169 people.

In the small town where I live people often blame parents for the way their children turn out.

A small expression of favor the laborer would be able to get through his head; it would be understood in the market - town by «the highly respected cultured public,» by all ballad - mongers, in short, by the 5 times 100,000 persons who dwelt in that market - town, which with respect to its population was even a very big city, but with respect to possessing understanding of and sense for the extraordinary was a very small market - town — but this thing of becoming the Emperor's son - in - law was far too much.

Why don't these people ever go to the small country church in small town America?

Usually, there are 10 to 12 - a surprisingly good turnout for a congregation of 25, which just goes to show how many people the disease affects in this small Southern town.

Moving from a small town where one was surrounded by friends and clan to a large city where «people are lonesome together» is a «detribalizing,» shaking experience.

Lilacs tipped with light purple blooms still grace the side streets of small towns throughout the American Midwest, but as Lauck recognizes in an elegiac epilogue, fewer and fewer people live there.

Small town Midwestern culture is becoming, if not urban, at least suburban, a place where people commute to Des Moines to work at Home Depot rather than walk down the street to run the local hardware store.

You must live in a pretty small podunk town if you don't know any gay people.

Kraemer is a very small and very poor little town down in the bayou in which people make what living they can from selling alligator skins and skulls.

But I chose this volume that chronicles McLean's visits to 10 small towns across Canada because it's a bit more complex and narrative than his usual down - home stuff, he dives into forgotten history, talks to people that aren't usually on the front page or the television, to tell their stories.

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

Yet the irony of the criticism is that I write not simply as an academic but also as the pastor of a church of ca. 160 people in a small town outside Philadelphia.