Sentences with phrase «tended by the local community»

Our tour was of the garden tended by the local community.

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«Donor - advised funds that are sponsored by a community foundation tend to have a more singular focus and they're on the local pulse of charitable activity,» said Gavin Morrissey, managing partner at Financial Strategy Associates in Needham, Massachusetts.
A decade later, a study of Episcopal churches by Wade Clark Roof showed that church people tend to be divided into two groups: the «locals» who prefer to live in small communities, get their satisfaction from relating closely to families and to friends, and belong to local groups; and the «cosmopolitans» who prefer living in large cities, get their satisfaction from dealing with ideas and international issues, and belong to large state or nationwide organizations.
In fact, buttressed by the support of the business community and many local and regional newspapers (who are even more distant from the realities of schooling than state policymakers), SED officials have tended to characterize those who question their initiatives as «whiners and complainers.»
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