Sentence examples for isolated counties from inspiring English sources

To ensure that the study area is contiguous, a few geographically isolated counties were not included, such as Kaijiang and Tongchuan Counties.

The ability to identify these isolated counties shows that our method is not biased toward detecting only counties near other areas with high incidence of Lyme disease.

It would be improper to permit appellants to carry their burden in a statewide election by merely demonstrating that there were a sufficient number of no-votes that could have changed the returns in isolated counties.

In our analyses restricted to more isolated counties (removing those adjacent to a nonrural county), the pattern in ALL was even more pronounced with ORs from 2.4 to 4.3, and those for CNS barely changed.

During the first 5-year period (1993 1997), 69 counties were characterized as having high incidence of Lyme disease, including 4 isolated counties in the southeastern United States (Table; Figure).

The success of the Hurricanes was widely credited by residents and officials for helping to inspire the recovery of the lower end of the isolated county.

And it seems to confirm what many advocates contend -- that those, like Mr. Mkhizi, who agitate for improved conditions are often placed in solitary confinement or sent to isolated county jails.

Among the 2 participating hospitals not meeting this definition, 1 hospital was in an isolated county slightly exceeding the 50,000 metropolitan population limit but was considered to serve a primarily rural population.

The U.S.D.A. assigns every county in the nation a grade from 1 through 9, where a 1 denotes the most densely populated, urban counties and a 9 the most sparsely populated and isolated rural counties (full definitions here).

Three isolated northeastern counties have been known since 1949 as the "Northeast Kingdom," a name bestowed by former governor and U.S. senator George Aiken in recognition of the area's natural beauty.

To eliminate under-funded school districts, we isolated 97 counties where more than half of per-pupil spending comes from property taxes.