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Urban in sentence

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Government surcharges alone amount to at least 13% of Chinese enterprises’ revenues, with some 7% financing urban construction and maintenance, 5% going to education, and 1% earmarked for flood control.
Sometime during the past two years, according to United Nations estimates, the world’s population became mostly urban.
But urban life poses a challenge to our automotive mobility.
That protection comes at a price: if not a loss of civility, then certainly of urban mobility, as cars clog the roads.
Although Ford and General Motors build small cars in Europe, they made their money at home by persuading urban dwellers to buy gas-guzzling behemoths that promised mastery of the open road.
But the renewable-energy market is emerging far too slowly in Africa – especially when one considers that Bangladesh has delivered 3.5 million small photovoltaic systems to urban slums and poor rural areas over the last five years.
Furthermore, the determination to crush dissent affects the urban middle classes, which might otherwise be the strongest proponents of security-sector reform in this area.
Even Egypt, with its highly centralized and bureaucratized state, has devolved certain policing and security functions in marginalized urban communities or rural areas to baltagiyyeh (thugs) and to former henchmen of the ruling party, village headmen, and clan elders.
Cliché was the common currency of all Communist dictatorships, but they had the opposite effect to what the regime intended, for they cast an aura of forbidden fruit around the slandered New World metropolis, making it seem a glowing Olympus of modernity, an urban Everest of adventure.
Approach the city and you see the urban center of the world – a hard and harried place, marked by social contrasts as dizzying as its skyscrapers and with a sense of transience as elevated as its buildings.
Demagogues have had great success pitting such people against coastal and urban elites who supposedly want to strip them of this right.
These policies may hurt agricultural producers elsewhere, but they also benefit poor urban consumers.
As China becomes a more urban and elderly middle-income society, the challenge for the new leadership is not only to meet the population’s need for employment, health care, and social security, but also to improve governance and state effectiveness by establishing checks and balances on political power.
Of course, today’s urban areas are huge, diverse, and pluralistic, so it may seem strange to say that a modern city has an ethos that informs its residents’ collective life.
But urban youth and educated professionals, too, are larger in number and more politically active than ever before – a change reflected in the sudden rise and surprising success of “occupy” protest movements demanding an end to patronage politics.
But in many countries recently wracked by political unrest – Brazil, Chile, Turkey, India, Venezuela, Argentina, Russia, Ukraine, and Thailand – it is the urban middle classes that have been manning the barricades.
Likewise, urban students and the middle classes spearheaded the Arab Spring, before losing authority to Islamist forces.
There is a sense among many Europeans, not just in the Netherlands, that they have been abandoned in a fast-changing world, that multi-national corporations are more powerful than nation-states, that the urban rich and highly educated do fine and ordinary folks in the provinces languish, while democratically elected politicians are not only powerless, but have abjectly surrendered to these larger forces that threaten the common man.
In fact, SMEs already play a crucial role in African economies, involved as they are in all sectors of rural and urban economies.
In many of the world’s urban centers, homes are becoming prohibitively expensive for people with moderate incomes.
Protecting urban areas that are located near the ocean, but lack buffer beaches, requires a different approach.
The catch-up process also takes place within countries, as labor moves from low-productivity rural activities to higher-productivity urban activities, and as low-productivity firms in all sectors emulate their more advanced domestic counterparts.
As Africa’s workers seek better opportunities, they are flocking to cities faster than those cities can absorb them, leading to the proliferation of slums in urban areas and a flood of illegal migration to the West.
Privatization of urban real estate will save the businesses from the constant demand for payoffs by local officials, who as landlords can extract bribes by threatening to repossess the premises.
They can carry enormous amounts of current, making them ideal for urban power grids.
Newly rich consumers in rural areas increasingly put their savings into gold, a familiar store of value, while wealthy urban consumers, worried about inflation, also turned to buying gold.
For example, rising food prices tend to hurt the poor, especially the urban poor, who spend a large share of their income on food; unlike agricultural workers, they receive none of the benefits of higher food prices.
With swelling urban populations, it will become increasingly difficult to keep a lid on these pressures.
Fearing the costs of an invasion of Gaza’s urban alleys, Israel handed a strategic victory to Hamas.
Indeed, Hamas now poses a strategic threat to Israel’s urban centers and military facilities.
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