Sentence examples for urban interest from inspiring English sources

A rapid migration from country to city had created new urban interest groups particularly in the lower middle and working classes that felt unrepresented by the traditional parties; nonetheless, the traditional parties prevailed and were not again successfully challenged.

There are still definably rural interests, just as there are urban interests.

Sometimes, he says, his district's rural interests collide with its urban interests.

The country's political leaders have often cited the challenge of balancing competing urban interests.

It seems like a typical jostling of urban interests -- drivers versus parents.

(Usually only the townsmen attended the meetings and the veche thus became a representative of urban interests).

Urban interests were promised support for the purchasing power of food stamps, which has declined since the 1990s.

There will probably never again be a spectacle even remotely resembling the epic struggle between rural and urban interests at the 1924 Democratic convention in the first Madison Square Garden.

Rooted to the city for decades, the state's Democratic leaders face new tensions melding their suburban and urban interests, he said.

Gayle Chaneyfield-Jenkins, a Democrat who is a councilwoman at large in Newark, said the call for a referendum pitted suburban interests against urban interests in the state and was "divisive politics at its worst".

As a result, a complex relationship developed in which the contado found markets for its products, offered opportunities for investment for city dwellers, and suffered oppression from urban interests.