Local in sentence

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Realizing that it's difficult to get loans in this environment, you're doing business with people you trust in your local markets.

So this rise of local currency is another really interesting phenomenon.

So many of us who care about sustainable development and the livelihood of local people do so for deeply personal reasons.

Also through our local help program, Dr. Gbenga Abiodun, a young Nigerian scientist, can work as a post-doctoral fellow with the Foundation for Professional Development in the University of Western Cape in South Africa and the University of California at the same time, investigating the effects of climate variability and change on malaria transmission in Africa.

So rather than exporting our best and brightest out of Africa, we are nurturing and supporting local talent in Africa.

Right now, we are working with local communities and students, a US entrepreneur, scientists from the US and Africa to find a way to sustainably grow ebony, the iconic African hardwood.

So other students will take the varieties of ebony which Arvin identifies in our lab, graft them to produce saplings, and work with local communities to co-produce ebony with local fruit tree species in their various farms using our own tree farm approach, whereby we invite all the farmers to choose their own tree species they want in their farms.

But we all need to scale up this local, powerful and empowering approach.

And this is the way in which living materials make the most of their local resources in a sustainable way.

Also it will attract the local marine ecology, who will find their own ecological niches within this architecture.

My home institution, Ifakara Health Institute, began in this valley in the 1950s to address priority health needs for the local communities.

Galois was taken to the local hospital where he died the next day in the arms of his brother.

While it's easy to point the finger at local officials and higher authorities, 99 percent of these people are hired by the private sector, and so therefore we're equally, if not more, accountable.

By using this engaging popular format for traditional, local culture, it actually, in the Gulf, is precipitating a revival of interest in Nabati poetry, also in traditional dress and dance and music.

And right on top of the nearest coconut tree, with a hatchet in one hand and a cell phone in the other, was a local toddy tapper, who proceeded to bring down the coconuts for us to drink.

So the idea of this object is to be able to get at home very local food.

Local River is able to provide you food directly in your living room.

Now we can eat local food.

And that spider web pattern corresponds to the local coordinates in the sky.

My work, for a long time, has been involved in education, in teaching people practical skills for sustainability, teaching people how to take responsibility for growing some of their own food, how to build buildings using local materials, how to generate their own energy, and so on.

The breakfast that we eat as we sit down to check our email in the morning is still transported at great distances, usually at the expense of the local, more resilient food systems that would have supplied that in the past, which we've so effectively devalued and dismantled.

We need local government responses.

Some of the things that emerge from it are local food projects, like community-supported agriculture schemes, urban food production, creating local food directories, and so on.

A lot of places are working with their local schools.

This is Lewes in Sussex, who have recently launched the Lewes Pound, a currency that you can only spend within the town, as a way of starting to cycle money within the local economy.

Most of our local authorities, when they sit down to plan for the next five, 10, 15, 20 years of a community, still start by assuming that there will be more energy, more cars, more housing, more jobs, more growth, and so on.

There are now two local authorities in this country who have declared themselves transitional local authorities, Leicestershire and Somerset.

And in Stroud, the transition group there, in effect, wrote the local government's food plan.

So what we did was, we gave away a lot of it for free, and then those who pay, I mean, they paid local market rates, nothing more, and often much less.

In a country ravaged by violence against women, Indian peacekeepers have inspired many local women to join the police force.

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