This did not translate into victory because rural areas, which tend to vote for the ruling coalition, are overrepresented in parliament.
Because rural communities are so small, doctors must often cope with the strain of getting involved in all aspects of their patients' lives.
The need for change would be largely in cities or large towns, because in rural areas it might be more important to support smaller units.
Mr. WILBERT CAVE (Resident, South Carolina): Then the fact that we need to address the issue of poverty and his concern for rural America because that's where I'm from, rural America.
The subscriber base has been steadily increasing because of greater rural market penetration and increased development of number of applications by the company.
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He said not only jewelry, but gold bars and coins remain in high demand because in many rural areas banking is less available.
That is sensible, because it reflects rural practicalities.
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Teachers in turn resist rural jobs because of the lack of health care.
The tax tends to be a hotter issue in rural areas because it raises particular concerns among farmers and landowners.
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But four out of 10 men and 24% of women think fewer accidents happen on rural roads because they are quieter, the survey indicates.
"Cable is using broadband as a defense, but it's not defending their rural areas because even cable isn't offering much broadband there, " he says.
We have lived here for over six years and it was our choice to move to a more rural area because we believed the quality of life for our children would be better.
"Many councils in Wales cover very large geographical areas because they are so rural and imagine having a single department running services for two councils over that area, " he told BBC Radio Wales.
The private sector does not provide services in poor, rural areas, because the investment involved would be unprofitable.
"Because Tregib is in a rural area we feel very strongly that we have got to give the pupils a taste of the enterprise world if we are to get them to continue living in the area when they have left school, " he added.
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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.
"The number of arguments we get against speed cameras because they are on 'safe rural roads' is unbelievable, " said head of road safety Andrew Howard.
However, opponents of the "Get Ready" system say it is failing patients in more rural areas of Shropshire because ambulances have further to travel.
He said the main issues facing country councils were poor access to services due to lack of public transport in rural areas, extra costs for services and the fact that their problems are less likely to get the attention of policy makers because of the isolated nature of rural communities.
The region was fortunate because the storm touched down mostly in rural areas and missed central Oklahoma City.
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The growth of Southern cities also changes the political calculus because cities usually are less conservative than rural areas.
Foreign doctors also make up a disproportionate share of those in rural communities, in part because such work can qualify them for certain visa waivers.
Many political observers believe the race will be tight, with the National Front potentially edging out Anwar's alliance partly because of its entrenched support in predominantly rural districts.
Mr. HIRSCH: Because we have to make up in rural Nevada, and specifically in Lyon county, the margin that we are going to lose by down in Las Vegas.
And there may now be a greater temptation to stay on the farm because of an unusually rapid growth of rural incomes in recent months, caused by rising food prices.
The company said it had previously written to both the Food Standards Agency and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) because it was concerned about the authenticity of horse passports coming from Ireland.
Pacifying the critics is indeed important, say analysts, not because their anti-Wal-Mart campaigns affect the shopping decisions of the company's core rural customers (they don't), but because these critics have the ear of liberal politicians who dominate urban legislatures.
The callers may be poor, but because there are so many of them, rural phones in Bangladesh generate more revenue than urban ones.
Such a skewed result is because the concentration of their strength in the rural and suburban south-east hurts the Tories in other ways.
"We are building the capacities of CMCs because they are key to reach populations in rural areas through radio programmes broadcasted in local languages, " says Ydo.
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