• However, as he closed in on higher-ranking officials he was transferred to a remote rural district.

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  • Jean Leising, the bill's sponsor, said more than 90% of the 1, 000 constituents she surveyed in her rural district said they favored teaching cursive.

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  • Now, look it, I used to represent a rural district.

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  • By 2014, this rural district will be providing 236% of its own energy needs from renewables and hopes to generate significant revenue by exporting excess carbon-free power to the open market.

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  • The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), extended to every rural district in April 2008, is supposed to offer 100 days of work a year, at the minimum wage, to every rural household that needs it.

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  • It recruited twenty-four teacher coaches for the twenty-seven schools in the semi-rural district. (Charlottesville is the county seat, but it runs a separate school district.) Many teacher-coaching programs concentrate on newer teachers, and this one is no exception.

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  • Some rural-district House members, from both parties, have been worried about closures in their areas.

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  • In sports-mad Texas, where Friday-night football is nearly as sacred as Sunday morning church services, one rural school district is taking the once-unthinkable step of shutting down its high-school sports program.

    WSJ: Friday Night Lights (Out) for One Texas District

  • Not the kind of news that the voters of his rural, conservative district were expecting.

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  • Rarely has any pro-gun-rights Democrat representing a rural and Southern district broken with the NRA's position on key votes, especially in an election year.

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  • When Joanne was nine, the family moved a little farther west, to the edge of the Forest of Dean, a more rural and less prosperous district.

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  • Halvorson is counting on voters in the southern, more rural part of the district, where she grew up, to help her to a win in the primary.

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  • The biggest drama, however, comes in an election to fill a vacancy in a congressional district in rural New York, a Republican stronghold near the Canadian border.

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  • Much of the avoided energy consumption will come from the switch to carbon-neutral district heating (rural households will switch from oil, natural gas, and electric heating to heat pumps and biomass burners).

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  • It has echoes of Jamaica's Trelawny district, another rugged rural setting which has produced a string of sprint champions, including six-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt.

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  • The ambulance trust said some rural areas in Lincolnshire and Derbyshire Peak District had been "challenging" to reach within the response target times.

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  • But Mr Scott who represents shipyard workers, government bureaucrats, rural gentry and urban poor in a district that reaches from Richmond 110 miles southeast to Norfolk may be an exception.

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  • In addition, the study further revealed that the quality of education in Arua district, as in other rural districts, is adversely affected by a severe lack of resources and professional teachers, as well as high student-to-teacher ratios and large class sizes.

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  • Hazardous-waste facilities have to go somewhere, and buying 976 acres (the size of Arrowhead) of vacant land is easier and cheaper in rural Alabama than it would be in a tony district of Birmingham.

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  • In fact, the 1st District of South Carolina is only 21% rural, according to U.S. Census statistics published in the Almanac of American Politics.

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  • Nabanna: Networking Rural Women and Knowledge (Baduria, North 24 Parganas District, West Bengal, India) uses grassroots processes to build information-sharing networks among low-income, rural women.

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  • But other Democratic front runners accused Bloomberg of buying a race and interfering in the heavily urban district that also includes some Chicago suburbs and rural areas.

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  • Representative-Elect MURPHY: Well, I've been very blessed in that, you know, I'm someone that grew up in a rural home in far northeast Philadelphia, part of the district where it's a very blue collar neighborhood.

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  • Then there were another 600, 000 votes that just weren't able to be counted during the preliminary count because they came from very rural polling booths that were very far away from the central district offices where they had to be physically brought to in order to be counted.

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  • Obama spent the rest of his day in rural southwest Virginia, courting mostly white working-class voters in a congressional district that has an interesting presidential voting record voting twice for Bill Clinton and then twice for George W. Bush.

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  • As she stressed the importance of Bronglais services in a large rural area, she called on the Health Minister to maintain a network of District General Hospitals to ensure that Welsh citizens are within a safe distance of medical services.

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  • At its southern end, the district has lost the long tail that had dangled all the way to rural Gilroy and taken in some remote Santa Cruz County turf along the way.

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  • Eleven years later, the Hua family leave their French Concession town house almost every Saturday to head to their weekend home in Zhaoxiang, a rural suburban township 22 miles west of Shanghai's city center, in the district of Qingpu.

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  • The Democratic front-runners former state Rep. Robin Kelly, former U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson and Chicago Alderman Anthony Beale made Election Day stops at train stations and restaurants in the district that spans Chicago's South Side, south suburbs and some rural areas.

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  • These subgrantees serve more than 100 cities located in 31 states and the District of Columbia and are pursuing a wide range of program initiatives, from rural healthcare initiatives in Kentucky to employment programs for former offenders in California to workforce collaboratives in New Orleans to college preparation programs for low-income students in North Carolina.

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