Sentence examples for fewer civic from inspiring English sources
At the same time, researchers such as Harvard University's Robert Putnam, author of the book Bowling Alone, warn that Americans have been experiencing a steady decline in social capital, with most people having fewer friends, participating in fewer civic organizations, and engaging less with their neighbors than they did fifty or sixty years ago.
Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam in his 2000 book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community thoroughly documents that we are assembling together less for social activities, joining fewer civic associations, voting less, and even joining fewer bowling leagues.
As part of the larger NIEHS Environmental Justice Program framework, the Partnerships program seeks to remedy the unequal burden borne by socioeconomically disadvantaged persons in terms of residential exposure to greater-than-acceptable levels of environmental pollution, occupational exposure to hazardous substances, and fewer civic benefits such as sewage and water treatment.
Few civic groups could lay claim to its longevity or past celebrity.
CULTURE There are few civic gifts that equal the delights of the Getty Center, located off Sepulveda Boulevard not far from Westwood.
They have appeared together at a few civic functions, dined out a couple of times a year and hacked at golf balls on the same course.
In Brighton Beach, still a commercial hub of Russian groceries, restaurants and nightclubs, a few civic leaders complain that they are being abandoned.
Over the past 30 years, the English national football team has offered one of the very few civic institutions where Englishness was publicly on display and up for grabs.
M. Charles Bakst, who has covered Rhode Island politics for The Providence Journal since 1972, ticked off a few civic low points, the currants in his cake.
Community gardening on empty property has become one of the area's few civic activities.
All they asked of the region was a few civic improvements around the site.
