Rural in example sentence

For example, disputes over fertile land and fresh water fueled the war in Darfur, and even the current crisis in Syria – one of the greatest sources of human displacement today – began after successive droughts pushed Syrians from rural areas into cities.

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It's a story of public education and of rural communities and of what design might do to improve both.

Bertie County is kind of a prime example in the demise of rural America.

It's the dependence on farm subsidies and under-performing schools and higher poverty rates in rural areas than in urban.

Perhaps the biggest thing it struggles with, like many communities similar to it, is that there's no shared, collective investment in the future of rural communities.

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