Sentence examples for conservative villages from inspiring English sources

But delve into the conservative villages in the Nile delta, they say, and you see a different picture.

With the fall of the Taliban, the country's new government and Western aid groups are now doing just the opposite: bringing city norms to conservative villages.

While the men wore the muted knee-length shirts and loose trousers common throughout Pakistan, the women sported bright pillbox hats and eschewed the face coverings seen in more conservative villages.

In a quiet revolution with wide-ranging implications for political and social relations, they are also leaving home as single women in historically high numbers, forsaking their conservative villages and small towns to seek higher education wherever they can get it.

Living near a market place, for example, may be associated with increased HIV risk for young women, while living near roads connecting villages to cities increases the likelihood of migration from presumably conservative villages to more sexually permissive cities. 10 Living in rural areas may be associated with poor health care including HIV testing and treatment.

They are semi-literate, tribal, conservative village ­communities," he says.

In each case there has been an explosive clash between the rapidly modernizing city and the embattled, conservative village culture upon which the capital increasingly encroaches.

With no high exterior walls built around each home, women in this deeply conservative village could not walk outside their small houses or to backyard outhouses without risking the shame of public exposure.

Joost de Momper painted in the 1610s and 1620s many views of the Flemish countryside in which conservative village depictions are curiously associated with advanced scenery and atmospheric effects.

She has fond memories of her early childhood in what was then a small, conservative village in west of the Kathmandu valley: "I remember as a child wearing dresses with my sisters, and playing with 'girls'' toys.

Fishermen scramble to afford technology that keeps them competitive; children are forced to commute to a neighboring village because the local primary school was demolished; women, in the religiously conservative village, complain about the lack of a community center where they can socialize.