Sentence examples for highland communities from inspiring English sources

Troops deployed to rural highland communities outside of Quito, the capital, cleared tree trunks and burning tires, while firing tear gas at demonstrators.

A scuffle between schoolchildren this month led to a series of tit-for-tat killings and mob violence between Anuak and highland communities in Abobo and Gambella towns, according to Anuak elders and local security sources.

The protesters marched through highland communities to El Alto and wound up in San Francisco Plaza in La Paz, where speaker after speaker heaped scorn on President Carlos Mesa and the Bush administration, which is blamed for prescribing unpopular market reforms.

This has enhanced strong linkages between the indigenous pastoralists and the highland communities in terms of their economic interests and marriages.

Alongside the demise of agricultural production in Highland communities, the last 30 years have also seen the increasing development of rural areas.

The same NGO collected milk in the highland communities from 1994 to 1998 and successfully sold it to a candy company until a new administration arrived.

Susiya, bordering the desert and with minimal rainfall, is a far cry from the Scottish highland community of Scoraig, on a rainy peninsula jutting between two sea lochs south of Ullapool.

One report from a nearby highland community in Kenya reported a prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum of 5%, which was marginally higher than our study [33].

This study is the first to assess clinical reference ranges for a highland community in Kenya and highlights the need to define clinical laboratory ranges from the national community not only for clinical research but also care and treatment.

All interviews were conducted in Vietnamese, specifically the Kinh language, except in the case of 12 schoolchildren of grade 1 from a highland community who were supported by a local translator.

"These mining and water use concessions [to private interests] are inheritable; they are forcing the highlands communities to retreat.