Rural in a sentence as an adjective

It's not just the rural schools they skip.

For rural kids, rent for a room is half what their parent's pay on mortgage or rent.

That's part of the point -- for both the poor rural kids and the rich urban kids, and everyone in between.

People in rural or suburban areas rely heavily on cars.

I currently live in a rural county in Maryland.

American here, after age 10, I grew up fairly poor and very rural.

Of course the Second Amendment and the NRA are still there, along with a lot of gun owners in rural and Western states.

The infrastructure in India is, by all reports, spotty in the rural areas.

She loves living in the rural south, but is constantly brought down by the ignorance and awful habits of her neighbors.

Yet wherever I worked when I was a student, the vast majority of my coworkers were from rural parts of the state.

It is common to do this in urban areas, but it is rarely done in rural areas because it is flat out cheaper to put it on the ground.

He took them across state to a rural area and told them that a lot of construction was going to happen here and that he was going to setup shop here.

"Whether you're a young man or a young woman -- whether you live in a city or a rural area -- computers are going to be a big part of future.

Mostly, they seemed to predisposed to think that the strangers in rural Georgia and northern Florida would shoe us away from their properties.

And he took a big step up himself - I remember visiting my grandfather's farm in rural Kentucky as a child. I didn't notice the lack of electricity or running water at the time.

As someone who has worked with ecologists in the field on a number of wildlife projects in rural Africa, I find this to be truly repugnant.

If I run a store in rural Iowa and Acme Co opens a huge factory there, then I stand to make a bunch of money from all these newly employed customers.

The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk.

And it’s all the more noteworthy, considering that Zidisha’s borrowers are largely in rural areas, where credit tends to be more expensive.

A rural kid who makes it to a university will almost certainly have to work an almost full-time job just to cover their living expenses, books, tuition, rent...etc.

You say:"A rural kid who makes it to a university will almost certainly have to work an almost full-time job just to cover their living expenses, books, tuition, rent...etc."The point of the article is that this is not true and almost no one knows it!

Here are some ambitious ideas:- distributed power generation that's cheap enough and renewable enough so people in rural parts of sub-Saharan Africa don't have brown outs anymore.- synthetic food generation a la star trek- desalination that is cheap enough for a farmer in Mozambique to do himselfThere are more, lots more.

Where by "economically free" we include such freedoms as "ability to deploy child labor", "ability to pay workers below subsistence", "ability to create the equivalent of company towns", "ability to dump toxic waste into rivers", "ability to blot out the sun with airborne waste", and "availability of vast pool of rural poor workers".

Rural definitions

adjective

living in or characteristic of farming or country life; "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural"

adjective

of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city; "rural electrification"; "rural free delivery"