Villages in sentence

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Tried to protect our equipment, tried to protect our staff and the villages of about 1,500 people.

It's a very holistic way of improving the lives of the people living in the villages around the park.

It started small with 12 villages.

And some of these villages grew into the mighty cities of Babylon and Rome and Tenochtitlan.

Imagine how many communities will benefit from groups of tourists visiting their villages just to see the endemic birds that can only be found in those villages.

Local people make vertical glaciers using the meltwater from already-existing glaciers high above their villages.

There are plans for over 100 more in villages in Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.

So you really can bring into a village, and then the villages can connect themselves, and you really can do it quite well.

All villages need village councils.

So the electricity poles go to little villages in the hinterland, the pontoon bridges are used in small towns, the material is all reabsorbed.

In practice, some are part-timers, holding more closely to their own traditions, and maintaining families in nearby villages, outside Cossack lands.

And we work in some of the most difficult, rural, remote and tribal villages.

We first and foremost find young, passionate, educated youth from the same villages.

Because each of our villages are geotagged, and we can actually build that information out very, very quickly.

So here we have a model that works; we know it's scalable, because we are already functioning at 13,000 villages.

We have 650,000 villages.

And that is, because of our entire approach, with data and with technology, that five percent of villages in India have 40 percent of the out-of-school girls.

I have to work in those five percent of the villages, about 35,000 villages, to actually be able to solve a large piece of the problem.

And that's really key, because these villages not only have high burden of out-of-school girls, but also a lot of related indicators, right, like malnutrition, stunting, poverty, infant mortality, child marriage.

I understand that we used to have scrap metal and rubbish iron and bits of copper lying all round the villages, particularly in the developing world.

Now the villages and the cities and the streets are clean, you don't trip over scrap copper or scrap iron now, because it's an article of value, it gets recycled.

When we would get to these rural villages, though, what we found out is that no one had television, so they wouldn't recognize his face.

Neighboring villages saw the fishing boom and drew up their own closures, spreading the model virally along hundreds of miles of coastline.

But all that is just the beginning of the story, because this handful of fishing villages taking action has sparked a marine conservation revolution that has spread over thousands of miles, impacting hundreds of thousands of people.

It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities, therefore Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.

These stories take the reader through war zones and villages of rural China, and into modern marriages and tense gatherings around the dinner table.

There are 20 million people on the road at any time, in buses and trains, walking; 500,000 villages, 120 million households, and none of them wanted to report if they had a case of smallpox in their house, because they thought that smallpox was the visitation of a deity, Shitala Mata, the cooling mother, and it was wrong to bring strangers into your house when the deity was in the house.

Well, what's going on is the villages of the world are emptying out.

I used to have a very romantic idea about villages, and it's because I never lived in one.

Because remember, this is what drives the prosperity in the developing world in the villages and in the cities.

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