Sentence examples for overburdened cities from inspiring English sources

Those displaced bring few usable skills for surviving in the already overburdened cities to which they have flocked -- places like Cartagena, Bogota, Medellin and Cali.

OPEN UP THE COUNTRYSIDE Dispersing the population beyond overbuilt, overburdened cities, like the now-shattered capital, is a good idea now cloaked in urgency.

These enclaves have emerged on the outskirts of prospering, overburdened cities, from this frontier town next to the capital to the edges of seam-splitting Bangalore.

Many people in Cupertino, a 60,000-person town in the heart of Silicon Valley, are beginning to organize around their overburdened city.

The agenda, officials said, will not overburden city taxpayers.

Mr. Klein also hinted at another issue: the burden that the new federal standards have placed on the already overburdened, overcrowded city schools.

He proposes to me a limit of 5,000 people at one time for Rosh Hashanah, who would be bused in, pray, and then be bused out, to allow for another group of pilgrims to get their prayer fix without overburdening the city's infrastructure.

Both have a record of backing civic projects in a city not overburdened with them.

Mr. Bramson said that New Rochelle's land use policy sharply limits growth in other areas so that schools and other city services are not overburdened.

With the city's infrastructure already overburdened to the breaking point, fully one-third of these new arrivals were forced to take up residence in urban shantytowns known as katchi abadis, which ordinarily lacked power, running water, or sanitation.

To be fair to myself, we were playing right off a major city highway congested with rickshaws, overburdened trucks, buzzing mopeds and serene, traffic-stopping cows.