Sentence examples for poor municipalities from inspiring English sources

So too may the high rate of spending for schools in Newark, Jersey City and more than 25 other poor municipalities designated as special needs districts.

An austerity-minded governor, Rick Snyder, using a controversial new law, appoints emergency managers for a number of the state's poor municipalities, including Flint.

In 2008, the state appointed a fiscal monitor to oversee the city's books, an indignity usually reserved for poor municipalities and school districts.

In 2009 they got a law passed forbidding anyone but doctors to prescribe any type of drug.The original plan had been to use federal cash to lure Brazilian doctors to poor municipalities.

The Honduran PRAF experiment randomly assigned conditional cash transfers to 40 of 70 poor municipalities, within five strata defined by a poverty proxy.

Meeting targets National data indicate high rates of maternal and newborn deaths in geographically isolated and poor municipalities.

"We are a poor municipality and we are trying to do as much as we can, but we can't do much more," he said.

An urbane former minister of commerce with a liking for sleek suits and media attention, Mr. Bo was appointed the Communist Party secretary of Chongqing, a relatively poor municipality in southwest China, in 2007.

In Doljevac, a poor municipality of 19,000 people in southern Serbia, whose once flourishing tobacco, slaughterhouse and agriculture industries have fallen on hard times, residents recently tried to register a local agency to sell their organs and blood abroad for profit, but were refused by the government.

Regarding the attributes of community, Enschede is a rather poor municipality with a high rate of unemployment [35, 36].

We opted to study a regional health care division with the largest care network in a very poor municipality, with major historical health care deficiencies.