Sentences with phrase «small towns»

The task is to give cities an appropriate moral framework, as small towns once had, while retaining urban opportunities.

Chapters on McMartin alternate with chapters on the various copycat cases that arose in small towns and great cities across the country.

Except for the political satire (a side of Keillor rarely exhibited on the radio), they are generally midwestern, and celebrate baseball, small towns, «shy rights» («why not pretty soon?»)

Tthe effects of prejudice and racism are all around — constant fighting in Israel and Palestine, wars in the Middle East because of religion and killings in big cities and small towns all over the world because of the color of someone's skin or sexual orientation.

They produce impressive evidence to show that, contrary to commonly held assumptions, religion does better in pluralistic cities than in small towns and rural areas.

With gatherings locally, regionally, and nationally, leaders in small towns can be encouraged and revived like they have never imagined.

I have a passion for small towns.

Whether it's the suburbs, cities, or small towns, if you want to get personal with another man, you share commiserations about the home team over a communion of wings and beer.

He also suggested small towns deserve as much right to allow a brief prayer in public sessions as federal and state bodies.

The effects of prejudice and racism are all around — constant fighting in Israel and Palestine, wars in the Middle East because of religion and killings in big cities and small towns all over the world because of the color of someone's skin or sexual orientation.

And talking of small towns with dark secrets, let's not forget Rev Paul Coates (Arthur Darvill), the troubled vicar in Broadchurch, who can't avoid getting caught up in the show's web of suspicion.

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

The good life, the good society, was one in which all sorts of groups — families, clubs, co-operative societies, small towns run by boards of elders — lived the lives they wanted to live in a creative interaction governed by the spirit of living and letting live.

That is also why, even in small towns, sales counters have an underside as well as a topside.

But beyond all debates about what caused the 2008 financial crisis, even during the prosperous years of the aughties a sense of unease was growing, a feeling that if this society was what triumph of global capitalism entailed, in which the small towns shriveled and most manufacturing went overseas, then maybe it wasn't a good thing.

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.

Oppo and counterpart Vivo punished the company by developing strong ties with retailers in small towns and rural areas of China.

Organizers hosted rallies in large cities, in small towns, in blue states, in deep - red pockets, in places where guns are knitted into everyday life.

That might mean outsourcing tasks rather than having to own the expensive real estate for vineyards and tasting rooms — and finding innovative ways to bring the wine to small towns, and big cities, as the son of a well - known California winemaker has done.

If YES, here are 50 best business franchise ideas for small towns in 2018.

The evidence is there for all to see — shuttered factories in big cities and small towns all over America, persistent wage stagnation and high unemployment for workers without college or specialized vocational skills.

We went to every province and stopped in small towns and big cities.

Cities hard hit include Everglades City, Miami, Naples, and small towns in between.

Not to knock Paris — a city everyone agrees is the prototype for pretty capitals — but these small towns are the ultimate when it comes to French...

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.

We have vibrant small towns, where most everyone knows each other and there is a strong sense of community.

David Ian Gray, a retail strategist based in Vancouver, says that there remain huge differences between the Bay's flagships (the so - called «A» stores) and the bulk of stores in suburban malls and small towns — the «B» and «C» stores, in places like Medicine Hat, Alta., and Sydney, N.S. — which Gray says don't have the same selection or service, and none of the magic.

The Revenge of Mom and Pop The new independents movement is alive and kicking in small towns and in the neighborhoods of big cities, where storefronts are joining the battle.

After their marriage, Sarah Shipp gave up her job as a Pilates instructor, and the pair traveled together for a year, staying in cheap hotels, pulling in late at night to small towns where the only food to be found was at the gas station — bowling alley.

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

There are also vast stretches of desert, dotted with small towns.

«We called it «running for mayor» in all the small towns.»

From railroad engineers obtaining $ 25,000 - $ 30,000 bonus payouts to sign on, to small towns offering relocation payments, tuition reimbursement and bigger paychecks, labor slack has been reduced to near zero.

NEW YORK, March 27 - Puerto Ricos Government Development Bank, the islands insolvent former fiscal agent now in wind - down mode, has tweaked its $ 5 billion debt restructuring deal to help keep small towns afloat six months after Hurricane Maria.

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.

Foreign oil companies would refuse to dish out any more money to develop the country's resources if it knew that it could be kicked out at any moment by overzealous prosecutors in small towns.

As the editor of Cracked put it in a very perceptive essay: «If you don't live in one of these small towns, you can't understand the hopelessness.

«The NFLPA has been holding events around the league at small towns to talk to small business owners about the pending lockout,» says Liz Mullen, a reporter who covers agents, unions and labor for the Sports Business Journal.

Small towns want to solve Canada's decades - old nuclear waste problem by burying it in their backyards.

Both were from small towns and the mentoring relationship blossomed into a friendship.

A sampling of small towns where companies are based 1.

Population and economic activity has been flat to declining in rural areas and small towns, with very few exceptions.

Though there's generally less competition for jobs in small towns, business owners need to be more careful about finding applicants who are truly qualified and most likely to stay in the position for longer than their counterparts in bigger locales.

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

He had a vision to build a town centre (most of the residents came from small towns) that would also provide a change of pace from the monolithic shopping malls in the area.

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Sonoma is also ranked number one by U.S. News on its Best Small Towns to Visit in the U.S.A. ranking and second on its Best Places to Visit in July list.

Medical marijuana dispensaries, online seed sellers, head shops selling drug paraphernalia, sellers of hydroponic equipment and so - called vapour lounges where customers are welcome to smoke their own weed make up a budding industry, not just in big cities but in suburbs and small towns too.

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.

When Easton Wren arrived in Canada in 1968 to work for Amoco, Calgary was a small town with a tightly knit oil and gas industry.