Local in sentence

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Now, at the time of receiving that message, I was on sabbatical from my clinical work, setting up CanDo, a start-up determined to address this imbalance and enable local responders to provide health care to their war-devastated communities.

We had devised a simple model: source trusted and impactful local groups, support their development through an accelerator program and connect them to you via our crowdfunding platform, where they can fund-raise for their health needs.

The location was carefully chosen by the local experts, IDA, where they knew it would be safe and serve the greatest number of displaced children.

The system needs to change, and change starts with us all sharing a new humanitarian vision, one where you, global citizens with skills, expertise and resources, stand together with the local responders; one where we are all humanitarians, putting the necessary resources in the hands of those who need them most and are best placed to use them effectively and efficiently.

Local humanitarians have the courage to persist, to dust themselves off from the wreckage and to start again, risking their lives to save others.

Two men, Rahul and Rajiv, living in the same neighborhood, from the same educational background, similar occupation, and they both turn up at their local accident emergency complaining of acute chest pain.

And in my own trial in Goa, in India, we again showed that lay counselors drawn from local communities could be trained to deliver psychosocial interventions for depression, anxiety, leading to 70 percent recovery rates as compared to 50 percent in the comparison primary health centers.

We need to deliver health care, not in large institutions, but close to people's homes, and we need to deliver health care using whoever is available and affordable in our local communities.

But equally important is because health care has become so incredibly professionalized that it's become very remote and removed from local communities.

Under President Adams, a local dentist happened by.

So a lot of these innovations are local.

But it's not limited to the local.

The second time was a procedure that involved local anesthesia.

I went to the local baker and took their stale bread.

I went to the local greengrocer, and I went to a farmer who was throwing away potatoes because they were the wrong shape or size for supermarkets.

And yesterday, I went to one of the local supermarkets that I often visit to inspect, if you like, what they're throwing away.

And one night, I'm riding the uptown local train.

As with the Arab Spring, during the recent elections in the Congo, voters were able to send text messages of local polling stations to the headquarters in the capital, Kinshasa.

So wouldn't it be nice if there was a place in your local neighborhood where you could go and learn about this stuff, do it hands-on?

Now, we follow state and local regulations.

We can start building local distribution, and actually, it can cost the public sector much less."

And most of all, most of all, it requires that all of us have the courage and the patience, whether we are rich or poor, African or non-African, local or diaspora, left or right, to really start listening to each other.

You see the local laborers.

For everybody who does not know the public transport here in Dublin, essentially, we have this system of local buses that grew with the city.

And as these local buses approach the city center, they all run side by side and converge in pretty much one main street.

And only then you start to discover some local bus routes that would fill in the gaps, and that allow for those wormhole, inter-dimensional portal shortcuts.

For me, it was important that the vehicles that would run on those rapid transport corridors would be visibly distinguishable from local buses on the street.

Now we could take out all the local buses that ran alongside those rapid transport means.

This map only shows the rapid transport connections, no local bus, very much in the "metro map" style that was so successful in London, and that since has been exported to so many other major cities, and therefore is the language that we should use for public transport maps.

What's also important is, with a simplified network like this, it now would become possible for me to tackle the ultimate challenge and make a public transport map for the city center, one where I wouldn't just show rapid transport connections, but also all the local bus routes, streets and the likes, and this is what a map like this could look like.

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