• Over three-quarters of the world's poor live in rural areas, mostly dependent on agriculture.

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  • And there are components here that different sides feel differently about that are dependent on agreement in other areas.

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  • According to the Office of Fair Trading, about 1.5m homes across the UK, mostly in rural areas, are dependent on heating oil.

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  • The worst-hit areas were those dependent on construction and manufacturing.

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  • "But, ' adds Mel Reasoner, Director of the Mountain Research Initiative, "in many arid and semi-arid areas, people are dependent not only on the amount of glacier melt water, but on the timing of the water flow.

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  • The goal was to have a modest 25 stores open over the next several years, all located in high-rent areas with other luxury brands dependent on heavy foot traffic rather than easy parking.

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  • "We are hoping to stabilise what we are selling and expand the areas that are not HMV-Fopp dependent, or dependent on big releases, " explained Mr Buckle, who is world-renowned for promoting and releasing music by Scottish music artists.

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  • The company said its machines were set to be used improving roads in rural areas and opening up access in communities that are dependent on farming.

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  • The Afghan troops remain heavily dependent on the coalition for air support and medical evacuations in areas where the Taliban and other militants live among the population and often enjoy local support.

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  • More than half of the country's workers are employed in rural areas, mainly in agriculture and related work, and their purchasing power is dependent on farm production.

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  • Administration officials, in outlining three options for restructuring the housing-finance system, have been emphasizing areas of agreement with Republicans, stressing that they favor a system that is less dependent on government support.

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  • However Mr Hunt insisted the BOA's financial future was not dependent on the success of the scarf because they had spread their fundraising activities across a number of areas.

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  • Might not sound important, until you realize that our farm production is critically dependent upon stable weather patterns, this year promises to be one of the worst for drought in many areas since the dust bowl days from the Depression.

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  • While cheaper, this would be at the cost of excluding forest-dependent peoples from the benefits of new streams of carbon finance (or worse, possibly excluding them from forest areas altogether).

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