| The vast majority of HGV drivers drive carefully and courteously through these towns. | 
 
 
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| Community centers, however, were part of a much larger interest in replanning American cities and towns. | 
 
 
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| The countryside and towns and villages need to be repopulated but in the right manner. | 
 
 
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| Weddings in small towns and rural areas can be large affairs with the whole village attending. | 
 
 
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| Whole towns could be surrounded, or a mile-wide dragnet thrown over an area which contained sporting arenas. | 
 
 
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| In fact this was a two-way movement, with junior members of knightly or armigerous county families taking an interest in towns and trade. | 
 
 
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| Also, the council are looking at changing the signing for towns in the borough to improve local identity in the area. | 
 
 
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| It is one of the oldest towns in Wiltshire, and is centrally located with many famous landmarks a short distance away. | 
 
 
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| Of interest is the fact that the major producers of cotton gins in the South did not locate in the larger towns. | 
 
 
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| Although not a particularly rough town it had its unruly inhabitants, as did all dock towns. | 
 
 
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| Besides these, there are the urban and suburban wanderers, or those who follow some itinerant occupation in and round about the large towns. | 
 
 
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| State and territory governments are responsible for funding and managing state highways and arterial roads linking the major towns and cities. | 
 
 
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| While the company believes its ten depots cover the main motorway arteries and towns, there is still room for further expansion. | 
 
 
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| This corridor would connect Sligo, Galway, Limerick and Cork and open up rail services to towns along the now largely abandoned railway route. | 
 
 
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| Bridges and tunnels are being built to link cities and towns to the railway route. | 
 
 
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| Crowds of rowdy youngsters streaming into Walton from outlying towns and villages are causing a problem. | 
 
 
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| Almost without exception, these towns exhibit a spirit, pride and pursuit of excellence that rubs off on any intruder. | 
 
 
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| Asparagus fern tends to occur around towns, particularly near-coastal locations in moist shady gullies. | 
 
 
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| Given the already low supply, some towns reportedly did not have any plywood left to sell. | 
 
 
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| It has been noted that guide dogs working in towns breathe the same pollutants as humans yet do not have asthma. | 
 
 
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| Paranoid disorders are more common in people who live in towns and cities than in rural areas. | 
 
 
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| Here the rural areas too were in the hands of the towns and the patriciate ruled unchallenged. | 
 
 
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| As cyclists rode through the rustic towns that hug the route, spectators cheered, waved, and took snapshots. | 
 
 
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| On Monday Loyalist extremists had blockaded 125 main roads, closing down entire cities and towns. | 
 
 
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| My grandmother spends weekends in ghost towns looking for scorpions to cast in lucite. | 
 
 
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| Firstly, anyone wishing to get on or off in the smaller towns along the route such as Squamish, Lillooet, or Williams Lake, will be out of luck. | 
 
 
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| Yes, Alexander invaded the old Persian empire, killed armies who opposed him and sacked towns that refused to surrender. | 
 
 
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| In some cases such units were as likely to attack friendly towns and forces as enemy ones. | 
 
 
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| In many towns and villages, such a house acts not only as a place to live, but also as a tourist attraction, bringing visitors in their droves. | 
 
 
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| Those bold moves helped to revitalise the city as a visitor attraction and shopping centre, and many other towns and cities followed suit. | 
 
 
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| The Mesabi Iron Range contains some 110 miles of small towns built at the turn of the last century along a seam of iron ore called taconite. | 
 
 
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| Like many towns, we tore up the streetcar tracks in the 1950s to make way for automobiles and parking spaces. | 
 
 
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| Locations vary from those bang in the centre of towns, to rural retreats far from the madding office. | 
 
 
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| He had to consult the nobles, the magnates of the Church, and, in time, representatives from the towns who could make commitments of money. | 
 
 
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| On average 15 people a year die from heart attacks or collapses each year in towns of a similar size. | 
 
 
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| The columnist in question is a character, George Smith, troubadour of tank towns and breakfast debating societies in local cafes. | 
 
 
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| I can't recall him beating any real big names, and he did the majority of his fighting in tank towns for basically chump change. | 
 
 
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| He boxed in tank towns all over America, slowly but surely getting in better condition as the rust began to fall off. | 
 
 
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| He begins the search for a new fighter by taking four fighters and handler Smoky on a tour of tank towns. | 
 
 
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| He traveled to tank towns tackling local favorites and met fighters he had previously fought on the way to the title. | 
 
 
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| As a teenager she joined her brother on the road, playing in numerous tank towns and dives. | 
 
 
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| But when he signed with him in November 1923, he was no obscure vaudeville trouper fresh from the tank towns. | 
 
 
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| The major-league teams shuttle their players through the tank towns with such abandon that nobody has time to become a local hero. | 
 
 
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| He is the two-bit promoter who books the boxer in the tank towns of the South and Midwest. | 
 
 
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| Local bars in some towns and villages will also sell poyo the sweet, lightly fermented palm wine tapped from the high tops of palm trees. | 
 
 
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| I like the idea of dark banking transactions taking place in towns like Miltown Malbay, awash with transnational avarice. | 
 
 
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| We couldn't help noticing either how small towns in rural KZN are connected by good tarred roads. | 
 
 
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| All windows on the south, east and west sides are provided with orange canvas awnings like those on old-fashioned shops in English country towns. | 
 
 
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| Even in towns, some successful people in business have been labelled satanists. | 
 
 
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| Mr Lanyon said he intends to campaign with public appearances in the main street of local towns. | 
 
 
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| You may even see your property taxes increase as towns have to pay more to keep their police cars, fire engines, and garbage trucks on the road. | 
 
 
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| Manchester is one of the most user-friendly towns in terms of getting around and making a day of it. | 
 
 
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| At some of the towns where St. Sernin is said to have founded churches, such as Eauze and Pamplona, the tauromachy exists today. | 
 
 
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| The immediate consequence will be that other, more pressing, work in flood-hit towns will be scaled back or abandoned. | 
 
 
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| Farms, mining camps, trestles, hobo camps, and whole towns cracked and burned. | 
 
 
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| They tackled between 30 and 50 kilometres each day in camouflage uniforms while carrying 10 kg backpacks through the towns around Nijmegen. | 
 
 
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| Parking in Devizes is inadequate, badly organised and is driving people to other towns where parking is free and easier to find. | 
 
 
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| Well, in the region where Hurricane Rita came ashore, some small rural towns were nearly wiped off the map. | 
 
 
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| As many as 1,000 villages and towns were either damaged or wiped off the map. | 
 
 
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| Reports came swarming in by the score, of the damage done to the coastal towns and forests. | 
 
 
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| By March last year almost every city and many small towns had set up local coalitions. | 
 
 
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| Bacon demand from seaside towns is terrific, because Mr and Mrs John Bull will have bacon and eggs for breakfast when on holiday. | 
 
 
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| In towns and cities throughout the country, street-side frescoes, mosaics and tiny niches bearing the image of some Marian entity abounded. | 
 
 
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| A trail of ballast dust fills the space behind as she slices through Ohio Valley towns. | 
 
 
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| Rats thrived in towns in the Middle Ages, where food scraps and other waste was usually dumped out of windows and onto the streets. | 
 
 
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| Those who have availed of twinning collaboration from both towns will testify to its success. | 
 
 
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| Both towns were founded by Thracian tribes and later settled by the ancient Greeks. | 
 
 
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| Another odd similarity was the open air markets in the weekends, where farmers from nearby villages and towns brought their produce to sell. | 
 
 
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| Malang, like other regional towns of Indonesia, is changing, and a market for new local newspapers is emerging. | 
 
 
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| An East Lancashire businessman who has run lap-dancing bars in towns and cities said there simply wasn't a market for it in Blackburn. | 
 
 
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| In the marketplaces of towns like Maradi, food is plentiful, but many here simply can't afford to pay the high prices. | 
 
 
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| Brokers said that foreign buyers frequently buy houses close to famous balneological centres or in the mountains, in small villages or towns. | 
 
 
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| Our council tax is much higher than in larger towns if you compare the size of house. | 
 
 
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| Government forces have overseen and participated in massacres, the summary executions of civilians and the burning of towns and villages. | 
 
 
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| Their inhabitants were outnumbered by the numbers living in seaports, dockyard towns, and regional centres. | 
 
 
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| Most scholarship has focused on the nature of poor relief in colonial cities and seaports, and not in rural and interior towns. | 
 
 
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| In Scotland, the seaside towns tarted up their piers and decked out their main streets good and gaudy. | 
 
 
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| In the few towns and along the seaside, the languages heard were Russian or Georgian. | 
 
 
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| Travels took the Elven company through two more baronies, and countless counties, manors and small towns along their way. | 
 
 
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| The idea of a third-person shooter that's mostly devoted to pursuing other people through mazelike ghost towns is oddly appealing. | 
 
 
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| He called on Winchester to cut its ties and develop twinning arrangements with towns in the Third World. | 
 
 
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| But in those second-rate towns with their third-rate lifestyles, punk had a localised life of its own. | 
 
 
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| There were several cases where market towns had entered having mayors and town councils. | 
 
 
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| There is not a lot to do in those towns, so cars, motorcycles and three-wheelers become great methods to pass the slow, sleepy hours. | 
 
 
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| Barn owls thrive in and around human settlements in villages, towns and cities. | 
 
 
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| Council chiefs say the new prices, due to come in late in January, are in line with neighbouring towns and cities. | 
 
 
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| That way this self-contained unit will not put pressure on resources in towns and cities. | 
 
 
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| Many military installations are in or near small or medium size towns that can't absorb such a loss. | 
 
 
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| In those years, I also saw the racism and discrimination against my people in border towns. | 
 
 
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| Now, significant clusters have formed within driving distance of airport towns such as Carcassonne and Perpignan. | 
 
 
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| Both from hick towns and largely self-educated, they shared a dark humour and a strong sense of the bizarre. | 
 
 
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| Those smaller stores, not to mention mom-and-pop operations in provincial towns, are threatened by the big international megastores. | 
 
 
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| In 1853 he joined the Victoria police and served as inspector and superintendent in various goldfield towns. | 
 
 
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| Twisty, scenic highways and photographable little towns are what I'm looking for. | 
 
 
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| He was the first Cheshire officer to swap his regular beat in the Knutsford area to act as an adviser in the war-torn towns of the Balkans. | 
 
 
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| Given how remote the towns are, it's hardly surprising they appear to be caught in a time warp. | 
 
 
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| The Soviet Army initially believed that it was being sent solely to maintain order in the towns while the new regime consolidated. | 
 
 
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| As American pioneers headed westward, scoundrels occasionally would present forged letters of credit to wholesale merchants in larger towns. | 
 
 
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| They acquire their goods on consignment from wholesale merchants in the larger towns, then carry them on the train into the countryside. | 
 
 
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| Footpath skateboarders and kerbside tipplers can now officially be given the heave from the commercial zones of Rangitikei's towns. | 
 
 
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| There are large towns in Cyrenaica, but until recently the nomadic Bedouins dominated the countryside. | 
 
 
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| When small towns and villages become bedroom communities their economic vitality erodes. | 
 
 
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| There were a half dozen or so public works, most token gestures at best, located in both towns. | 
 
 
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| My father was a government servant and we were posted in villages and small towns. | 
 
 
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| Earlier this year police warned that tombstoning was becoming increasingly popular at British seaside towns. | 
 
 
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| The towns formerly surrounded with farms are now begirded with urban looking suburbs and highways, lined with shopping centre zones. | 
 
 
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| Petitions have been launched in both towns to save the units and today the Gazette throws its support behind the campaign. | 
 
 
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| He made frequent diversions to towns and villages along the way, but the three cities became the great centres of Methodist influence. | 
 
 
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| Central computers could be set up in police stations with satellite computers covering different districts, towns or even single streets. | 
 
 
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| There were also many blocks of land listed in Adelaide and country towns as well as cattle, sheep and farming implements. | 
 
 
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| At one end it bleeds into the metropolis of Kansas City and at the other is farmland and small towns. | 
 
 
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| Water restrictions were imposed on Saturday in the metropolitan area and in towns and properties fed by the Goldfields pipeline. | 
 
 
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| I understand that this Index works best in smaller towns and more rural areas away from metropolitan conurbations. | 
 
 
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| When the colonies were first settled, he wrote, the towns sometimes provided relief for their care. | 
 
 
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| Over 1,400 cities, towns and settlements have been found so far, with about 900 in India. | 
 
 
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| Instead, they established settlements on the outskirts of towns, where they worked as wage laborers. | 
 
 
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| Many settlements turned into ghost towns, as the land could no longer sustain life. | 
 
 
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| It will also be used for the provision of small public water and sewerage schemes in smaller towns and villages. | 
 
 
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| The entire troupe is always on the move, travelling to nearly a dozen cities or towns every year. | 
 
 
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| They were organized around an exporting economy, and as a result, the major cities dwarfed other towns within the tributary area. | 
 
 
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| I photograph the perpetually gendered in little rural towns outside the city, towns with names like Ash and Beech and Coriander. | 
 
 
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| I spent the day admiring the mud-brick mini-skyscrapers of the Hadhramauti towns, with their wooden latticework and sky-blue window frames. | 
 
 
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| Rectangular houses with zinc roofs and concrete floors are common in villages and small towns. | 
 
 
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| The contract also required that two towns be established with at least 300 persons in each town. | 
 
 
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| Ms McEvoy said zoning in small villages and towns was essential to ensure controlled, structured and sustainable development. | 
 
 
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| Inside the towns, quarantine went into effect, with the sick isolated in prisonlike infirmaries called lazarettos. | 
 
 
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| I have been told, anecdotally, that Maldon is one of the most vibrant and healthy towns in Essex, if not the east of England. | 
 
 
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| More cosmopolitan was the world of the spa towns and fashionable resorts, where cures were only one attraction among many. | 
 
 
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| After trucks fought their way through hostile towns to resupply us, I found myself hoarding rations like a shipwreck survivor. | 
 
 
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| The number of bricks used for the huge retaining walls through which railways entered towns and cities is incalculable. | 
 
 
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| The Roman army built legionary fortresses, forts, camps, and roads, and assisted with the construction of buildings in towns. | 
 
 
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| Beyond neighbourhoods, policing then needs what I would describe as answerability, at the level of the services centred in large towns. | 
 
 
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| First, there were the networks surrounding towns and villages in colonial America and the antebellum South. | 
 
 
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| European colonials encouraged the Creeks to think of blacks as slaves in order to prevent runaways from seeking refuge within Creek towns. | 
 
 
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| In Australia country towns are already dying, in part because they are unwilling to let in strangers. | 
 
 
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| Monograms on mountains is a curiosity, a visual chronicle of the monumental letterforms that are located near many American towns. | 
 
 
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| As towns and villages were liberated by these forces, so new revolutionary authorities were set up. | 
 
 
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| By 1986, around three quarters of the population supported the nuclear ship ban and anti-nuclear towns and cities sprang up all over. | 
 
 
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| Other activities include hiking, antiquing, exploring nearby ghost towns and hosted shooting clinics at their range. | 
 
 
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| When small towns and backroads are bathed in golden leaves, I'm in the mood for antiquing, hiking, and wine tasting. | 
 
 
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| It's not just the antiquity of the towns, but also the way people there think about urban life. | 
 
 
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| After five matches the town lies 6th place overall out of a total of 8 towns. | 
 
 
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| You may find cheaper accommodation out of the city centres and in surrounding satellite towns. | 
 
 
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| Commercial development in Galway has shifted from the city centre to budding satellite towns in the last 12 months. | 
 
 
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| Back before Henry Ford's contraption changed everything, there were satellite towns built around Toronto that were connected by rail lines. | 
 
 
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| So the small satellite towns are now America's centre for crystal readers, bone throwers, residential therapies and self-help clinics. | 
 
 
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| This city with its outlying satellite towns may have a population touching 10 million people. | 
 
 
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| If you stay here the night I can get you a ride into one of the border towns tomorrow morning. | 
 
 
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| Cultural backwardness is rife in America, but nowhere so pervasively as in small cities and towns. | 
 
 
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| Many cities and towns have leash laws which require this, but it's a good idea anyway. | 
 
 
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| In small towns, where everyone knew everyone else, surnames were not particularly important anyway. | 
 
 
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| But he certainly helped to accelerate the rate of economic and social change in the cities and towns along the shore of Lake Michigan. | 
 
 
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| Councillor Wilf Davison attended a meeting of the 30 towns twinned with communities in the Limousin region of France. | 
 
 
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| During the middle Minoan period, urbanism became apparent, towns appeared, and the great palaces were built. | 
 
 
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| Campaigners have claimed victory in their battle to stop Witham's unemployed having to travel to other towns to sign on. | 
 
 
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| In some towns the opposition between the two camps runs deep, but in this region rivalry appears to be more muted. | 
 
 
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| Well-maintained bicycle paths complete with road signs and traffic lights connect towns and cities, often running parallel to rural highways. | 
 
 
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| Tall pine trees line the roadways around towns like Ft. Gaines, Arlington and Blakely. | 
 
 
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| They are medium-distance through-routes connecting important towns and linking the national primary routes. | 
 
 
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| But our island's towns and cities have been rocked by their own lesser-known scandals. | 
 
 
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| The dip and roll of the country conceals low hills topped by historic towns. | 
 
 
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| Traditional houses in villages and towns are archetypally wooden, surrounded by high fences and with latticed windows. | 
 
 
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| It fosters high standards of planning and architecture in towns and cities. | 
 
 
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| They are, or were, joists in the information architecture of towns and cities. | 
 
 
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| Thirty-seven percent of those travelers were heading to small towns or rural areas. | 
 
 
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| Up to 100,000 people move from towns into rural areas a year, said the minister. | 
 
 
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| Macquarie held the view that rural areas should have towns constructed as service centres and places of government. | 
 
 
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| There had been a huge population drift from the rural areas to the towns and cities. | 
 
 
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| The resulting mulch from the Christmas trees will then be used for landscaping projects on green areas in the towns. | 
 
 
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| State-regulated labour bureaux were established in the rural areas and smaller towns to oversee the flow of workers. | 
 
 
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| Whether crossing rural areas or towns, the scenery was always graceful and neat. | 
 
 
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| At its peak in the 1920s and 1930s, even the county's smaller towns each supported a bank, a diner, a gas station, a grocery, a schoolhouse, and a bar or two. | 
 
 
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| So how would you expect people to suddenly get on so well when they're living on top of each other when people in towns and villages can't get on particularly well. | 
 
 
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| In the South Lakeland District Council award section, Sedbergh bagged the towns and villages trophy while Rydal Mount, Rydal, took the tourism trophy. | 
 
 
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| At that, the conversation turned to people's home towns, everyone trying to outdo each other on the smallness of scale or the restrictiveness of their upbringing. | 
 
 
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| This will be an integral part of the tidy towns five year plan. | 
 
 
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| Most rural areas and many small towns lack a fixed telephone service. | 
 
 
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| There have been rallies and vigils by the score in small towns. | 
 
 
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| Beyond having safe, reliable access to towns, many of the shiny new facilities are free, including overnight tie-ups, water, electric and pump outs. | 
 
 
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| Second, women did not generally fight, but they formed linkages helping maquisards, who were often from distant towns and cities, gain rural acceptance. | 
 
 
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| Emily Rushton, an escort in her 30s who tours both cities and smaller towns around Ontario, explains that region is a factor, too. | 
 
 
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| To the northeast, FSA brigades are preparing to retreat from a string of towns including Marea and Tell Rifaat. | 
 
 
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| In large towns, it tended to act as a collaborating class, offering the aristocracy and the upper middle class the means of power in exchange for recognition and status. | 
 
 
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| The chapter, which takes up fewer than 30 pages, contains nearly 200 toponyms of nations, counties, towns, streets, rivers, buildings, and other geographical features. | 
 
 
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| By spending time in the places with marginal seats, he aims to find out what the voters really want and what the towns and surrounding areas really need. | 
 
 
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| Firstly, that there are significant numbers of young men concentrated in inner areas of towns and cities about to hit the peak period of offending. | 
 
 
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| Conversely, some towns and cities are stuck in a time warp, with declining trade leading to empty shop properties and a consequent gap in the retail offer. | 
 
 
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| The new towns today are not identical to the blueprints that birthed them. | 
 
 
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| This will help the rural people from these villages to take their products to nearby towns and metropolitan cities where there is a market for their products. | 
 
 
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| They moved north and east forcing the government to resume pastoral leases and resurvey and subdivide them for agricultural blocks and new towns to service them. | 
 
 
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| And although street clocks went out of vogue in the 1920s, Verdin resuscitated the analog timepieces in the 1980s for small towns undergoing Main Street revivals. | 
 
 
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| Governments of cities, towns and villages also should define in advance their criteria for issuing evacuation calls and issue them promptly when necessary. | 
 
 
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| The 18th century saw incessant warfare between the colonial powers, towns repeatedly sacked, and islands taken and retaken, often for use as bargaining counters at the peace. | 
 
 
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| There have also been episodic rocket attacks on Bekaa Valley Shiite towns fired from Syrian rebel-held positions. | 
 
 
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| From afar the shanty towns resembled ramshackle collections of matchboxes. | 
 
 
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| Nevertheless, it is clear that it is quite insufficient to keep up the farm population, stop the drift to the towns and the abandonment of marginal farms. | 
 
 
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| During the American colonial period, they received their modern name from English traders who noted that their towns always sat on the banks of picturesque creeks. | 
 
 
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| They say it is wrong and sad that six towns should have been set against each other, under the review, each engaged in a beggar-my-neighbour strategy to keep its hospital. | 
 
 
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| No, but they had the sterling comic timing of the professional funnyman, hard-won in a thousand tank towns on the vaudeville circuit, and that is more than enough. | 
 
 
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| A report by banking group Halifax revealed that the top 30 towns for price growth were all outside the M25 London orbital motorway, and Brighouse headed the list. | 
 
 
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| Along the East Coast, towns hard hit by superstorm Sandy are kicking off summer. | 
 
 
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| Some economists think Howard's approach might be the last best chance for towns that have seen family farms vanish and their economic bases crumble. | 
 
 
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| This she manages by sleeping with men she encounters in the most sordid bars in the grimmest towns she can find. | 
 
 
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| While the previous windmill designs are for larger structures that could service entire towns, the fan-type windmill is made specifically for individuals. | 
 
 
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| In towns, the infamous Leyland cypress is often the barrier between homes. | 
 
 
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| We have thousands of well-tanked people flowing on to the streets of all major towns and cities at a given time of the night when there's bedlam on the streets. | 
 
 
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| More to the point, he makes his fascination palpable in this journey from the heights of the WWF to the depths of one-night stands in tank towns in Nebraska. | 
 
 
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| In the shanty towns the conditions of the poor grow worse by the day. | 
 
 
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| Is it a main road or a road that meanders through many towns? | 
 
 
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| Outside the cities, in the towns and villages, the situation is even more anarchic with local militia leaders and tribal chiefs battling for control. | 
 
 
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| It's the same story across Canada, where now and always, the junior leagues carry the torch for the spirit of hockey in small towns and big cities alike. | 
 
 
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| Property in the outer suburbs and satellite towns has begun to stabilise and there are predictions that prices in this sector will begin to dip somewhat next year. | 
 
 
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| In small towns and villages, new houses tend to be built from concrete blocks with metal roofs, but many are constructed from mud bricks and roofed with thatch. | 
 
 
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| To the original Witwatersrand was added an arc of satellite towns from the Far West Rand goldfields to the huge coal, electricity, and oil plants of the eastern Transvaal. | 
 
 
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| People at the time were encouraged to go to newly founded towns, called bastides, most of which were planned around a central covered market area. | 
 
 
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| I suppose my point is that the potential is there for dozens of regional ethanol plants in the rust-belt towns and states of Australia to be built. | 
 
 
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| The group has visited outlying towns like Tenterfield, as well as the University, Nimbin, a dairy farm, the Lismore saleyards, and a macadamia farm. | 
 
 
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| In Ferguson and many towns like it, majority African-American communities most grapple with mostly white county governments. | 
 
 
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| Blackdown is on the outskirts of Leamington Spa, an hour's motorway drive from Birmingham airport or a slow black taxi ride through that city's satellite towns and beyond. | 
 
 
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| Those who work in the steel, glass and concrete towers of these business giants live in antiseptically clean towns in which no heart seems to throb. | 
 
 
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| An early version of a self-propelled train, the rail motor provided a vital community service and a lifeline to all the towns and people in the area. | 
 
 
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| Even if they are tonked, the fixture will gladden hearts in a few towns in Patagonia, where descendants of Welsh settlers still speak Welsh and hold eisteddfods. | 
 
 
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| Traditionally, the community has eschewed visitors and strangers to their towns, and strictly forbade outside marriage. | 
 
 
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| Within an hour, grubby tugs pushing heavily laden lighters are battling upstream towards banks lined with the darkest, most satanic-looking towns I'd ever seen. | 
 
 
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| Thousands of lorries and trucks are being forced into provincial towns for rest stops and catering services, defeating the purpose of bypassing towns in the first place. | 
 
 
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| These northern towns were once touristically or agriculturally successful, but today they are confronted with growing identification and economic problems. | 
 
 
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| At first, the term Buffalo Commons was a lightning rod, attracting doomsday prophets and defenders of civilized life in small towns and rural areas across the Great Plains. | 
 
 
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| Plains towns like Grand Island, Nebraska, are filling up with Mexican or Honduran restaurants. | 
 
 
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| The celebrations of Holy Week in many cities and towns of Spain include floats with scenes of the Passion and Death of Christ, and likenesses of the Madonna. | 
 
 
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| It has been tested in cities, towns and rural areas as well. | 
 
 
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| Long before the supermarkets took hold, the days that led up to Christmas some 50 years ago were very busy times for the shopkeepers in all towns. | 
 
 
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| There are now plans to hold similar expos in several major towns and cities, in order to bring more revenue to artisans around the country, throughout the year. | 
 
 
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| This means disrupting the process in Tajik, Uzbek, and Hazari Shia towns and villages, not just in the Pashtun south and east. | 
 
 
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| Meanwhile her husband William and his brother Harry were busy laying sandbags in towns affected by flooding. | 
 
 
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| Entire towns or neighborhoods could not be targeted for quarantine, hodge said. | 
 
 
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| There is also evidence of a drift towards the towns and cities where the bulk of the recent tourism investment has taken place, both in accommodation and facilities. | 
 
 
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| But there are limits to the number of new or wider roads that can be constructed, and the approaches to towns and cities are already becoming a concrete jungle. | 
 
 
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| Lest you think GWS is a snooty Philistine, I'll share that I'm a great lover of old English villages and towns. | 
 
 
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| The latter were virtual subterranean towns equipped with barracks, kitchens, power plants, magazines, and even electric railways to transport men and ammunition. | 
 
 
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| An extensive network of highways links Mexican cities and towns. | 
 
 
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| Show business is not paved with gold for the creators of its tinsel towns. | 
 
 
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| The Rural Action Project hopes to hold three similar seminars with video conferencing link-ups and facilities in rural towns and villages in West Clare in the next 12 months. | 
 
 
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| Agency staff also patrolled the River banks at the two towns where the river burst its banks, using loudhailers to advise householders to evacuate. | 
 
 
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| At this time native Estonians and Latvians were beginning to settle in the towns, and from this new class there emerged nationalist and revolutionary groups. | 
 
 
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| Checkpoints like this one and the 33 others along the southwest border are the source of frustration for the towns they occupy. | 
 
 
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| But the much sparser toponymic evidence from Ireland tells us that only the place-names in the rural hinterlands of the towns were influenced by those of Scandinavian speech. | 
 
 
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| Almost all working free women of colour laboured in towns, as tavern-keepers and innkeepers, petty retailers, seamstresses, laundresses, and domestics. | 
 
 
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| The history of US company towns shows that Facebook is up against an old problem. | 
 
 
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| Heroes were transport workers, milkmen, baker's roundsmen, doctors, postmen, who somehow or other got through to the isolated villages and towns. | 
 
 
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| Contract awarded as part of a command group between the towns of Loir Community and Rocked and the town of Chteau-du-Loir. | 
 
 
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| The Casa Grande banking market is approximated by the towns of Arizona City, Casa Grande, Coolidge, Eloy, Florence, and Sacaton. | 
 
 
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| A nightlong curfew was also imposed in towns and villages across the Sinai. | 
 
 
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| Their aim is to secure a network of NATO strongpoints between the two towns. | 
 
 
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| It will be carried by more than 400 torchbearers through cities, towns, villages and townlands, past many of our iconic landmarks. | 
 
 
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| A nearly 7-km-long traffic jam has clogged the roads between Bulgaria's Black Sea towns of Pomorie and Aheloy on Friday afternoon. | 
 
 
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| Hundreds of thousands of spectators jammed Cape Canaveral in Florida and surrounding towns for the farewell. | 
 
 
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| In his company towns and camps, Osgood used various degrees of coercion, and hired strikebreakers. | 
 
 
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| Protests were spreading around cities and towns in East Germany. | 
 
 
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| Croatia alleges that Serbia's destruction of towns and expulsion of ethnic Croats in Slavonia amounted to genocide. | 
 
 
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| At the beach towns of Maroochydore and Noosa Heads we took the chance to soak up some sun and bodysurf on the golden beaches. | 
 
 
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| The Bates company mill was shut down 36 years ago and the town eventually disappeared, as company towns usually do when the jobs go away. | 
 
 
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| Its epicenter was northeast of Naples between the towns of Caserta and Benevento, AP reported. | 
 
 
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| Flipping between tiny paper-mill towns, this Canadian snoozer looks to make no effort to shuffle its hoary old cliches. | 
 
 
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| Changes like these are essential if every country does not want to return to company towns like Longhua, China, or Hershey, Pennsylvania. | 
 
 
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| Others in the top five list of sprout-loving towns include Rotherham and Cleethorpes. | 
 
 
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| Literary institutes such as this flourished in many English provincial towns in the Victorian era and the Walsall one was highly successful. | 
 
 
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| When Love Comes to Town will throw together 16 men and women, aged 30 to 60, from rural towns which have an excess of single men or women. | 
 
 
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| Failures to aging water and sewer service lines are on the increase in major cities and small towns alike throughout the United States. | 
 
 
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| Most towns and cities have a selection of the big chain stores making one seem very much like another. | 
 
 
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| We will not forget that Tajikistan adopted many evacuees from the towns of Soviet Russia. | 
 
 
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| Representatives from towns and cities around the world called New Castle or Newcastle will converge on two US towns sharing that same name. | 
 
 
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| More than 4,000 cities and towns took part in Earth Hour, starting with the remote Chatham Islands offthe coast of New Zealand. | 
 
 
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| O'Brien said elected officials in neighboring towns are all facing budget constraints and welcome the local options outlined in the Municipal Partnership Act. | 
 
 
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| Smetana celebrated Czech landscapes, rivers, towns and even mythology. | 
 
 
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| Nine out of 10 towns are plagued by travelling salesmen linked to foreign criminal gangs selling shoddy toys, clothes and jewellery, often by intimidation. | 
 
 
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| This boutique-style experience features 7 historic distilleries, runs across majestic horse country and through the enchanting heart and small towns of the Bluegrass State. | 
 
 
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| Small towns and villages were the main drag, but urban households were less optimistic about their income too, according to the National Statistical Institute. | 
 
 
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| More often than not, the old town and city centres were preserved as tourist traps while the new towns were built on the edge of town or in the suburbs. | 
 
 
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| Fish products, being an important part of the diet of most Cape Verdeans, are also sold in all fishing communities along the coast, as well as in towns further inland. | 
 
 
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| We are daily invaded by numerous people from all points of the compass, we have nogo areas in our cities, and towns that are no longer considered part of the country. | 
 
 
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| Seaside towns should sell ciabattas as well as chips, swop tacky gift shops for continental markets and open art galleries at night instead of just pubs and clubs. | 
 
 
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| The criteria used by Country Living to select their top commutable towns included commuting time to nearest city, views, landscape and price of homes. | 
 
 
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| The resin harvest was brought from Somaliland, Dhofar in western Oman, and the island of Soqotra and transported to towns in the Hadhramawt region of eastern Yemen. | 
 
 
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| But the bulk of the industrial base is located in company towns, known as monotowns, that epitomise the federation's countrywide industrial decline. | 
 
 
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| She believes in the diversity of towns, capitalising on their uniqueness rather than the 'clone town' trend towards bland uniformity blighting our townscapes. | 
 
 
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| Coat miners seeking union rights were fired by their employers and kicked out of company towns that gouged them by forcing them to use company scrip. | 
 
 
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| While local towns are almost split on whether there are official trick-or-treat hours, all departments agree that parents and children should use caution while out and about. | 
 
 
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| Many cinemas in Wales were born of the travelling picture shows, or Bioscopes, which were part of the fairs that visited towns across the country in the late 19th Century. | 
 
 
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| The report, Turning the Tide, called for action to revive the fortunes of seaside towns like Rhyl, Margate, Clacton-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth and Blackpool. | 
 
 
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