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    urban


    1. There were only fifty million males in the whole urban universe of the Yakahn, and practically all of them that he had ever met, knew Venna intimately


    2. Yorthops was now on her way to the north end of the urban complex, to Eleknane, beyond Chardovia


    3. While Municipal Corporations and the state government have their responsibilities, with the increasing urban population, haphazard growth of slums and colonies, the problems cannot be solved without the involvement of the people


    4. Her return from Sinbara had convinced her that she was a city girl, what was she doing out in this desert at the onset of dark? Sinbara was an urban wonderland compared to this


    5. In urban areas this is not easy, as people are not exposed to the community living as is possible in villages


    6. Low government revenues in rural areas and urban bias in central resource allocation have meant that social service provision has tended to start in cities and extend only gradually to the countryside


    7. The urban complex boasted of being within five hundred miles of four of Earth's six busiest spaceports at the time


    8. Closer to the cities or towns they had less than an acre and grew only perishables and worked urban jobs at irregular intervals


    9. There was no reason to believe any of them may have remained in that urban area


    10. Cargo was transferred from lake vessels to urban canal rafts in the outer harbor and then towed by rope into and thru the canals

    11. It would be like this all the way to the address where she now lived, a palatial urban estate in the old stone off third canal


    12. It is much larger than Gengee City, but just another business district in the Yakhan's urban universe


    13. " She didn't think their remote sensors were very good if they couldn't detect an urban complex of a hundred million, but as he said, they weren't looking for the right things


    14. They tend to be lower here because most of the urban streetcars in downtown Zhlindu are indoors


    15. stately in a small, urban way, firm and secure


    16. urban curtain of security, the sound


    17. hot spots, a riot in the urban jungle,


    18. From here it was just possible to see the features of the mountain, The Karthuum Valley and Rankor Hill, glowing softly green with the light of all the Nightday lanterns that burned beneath the upper fronds of that urban mountain


    19. They were in very urban waters now, torches burned on the piers all along all shores, this close all docks worked round the week


    20. They tried keeping a dog, but found the urban sprawl too bleak a thing to impose on such an innocent creature

    21. The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives has prepared a list of general information about nearly 100 programs operated by the Departments of Justice, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Education


    22. I pray this book gives you a practical understanding on how your church can be a blessing to Urban America


    23. which grew truly magnificent specimens of urban thistles


    24. From what she knew, Hartford was the largest urban center in North America that had not been slagged by a meteor, Syracuse was next, then Scranton


    25. They were called ‘Hangers’ in slang and had become the symbol of urban life


    26. The ache in his shoulders and back made him all too aware of how much this urban universe had shrunk in his memory during the past century


    27. At the rate they were going it might cost them a whole week getting to the northern extremities of the urban complex


    28. She had to be overwhelmed, all alone in the infinite crowds of this urban universe


    29. She would conquer this urban infinity by herself


    30. Downstream of Chardovia they went down a lazy, lon-choked river for a few miles before it widened out into the next lake, backed up by another city in the Yakhan’s urban complex called Sistril that was sixteen miles down the Mindendao river

    31. He remembered the scenes, but not the size of the urban world


    32. He had spent his formative years in an urban area of


    33. It was full of climbing across deep urban canyons on hand-thrown ropes in the dark


    34. The Range Rover burns through gasoline in the urban splendour of Roundswell; car dealerships, neon lights and estate houses themed on Spanish villas


    35. Geographers all agree that the contiguous urban area that has grown from that campsite is now over a hundred million people


    36. The landscape shifted from agrarian to rural to urban before their very eyes, and in no time at all they were passing neighborhoods and parks, schools and shops, businesses, boulevards and brownstones


    37. The third of the land that was nearest the canals was urban in these parts, just barely urban


    38. This Hyondahi lived urban, in a big ebonoid with over six floors inhabited


    39. The map lead him to an urban spot high in the Chardovia wall


    40. He had to fight some urban traffic along the back side of the city, but he kept to the middle and kept the petcock as wide as he dared, slicing between barges and canal ferries, running under tow ropes and making sharp turns in front of terrified stares

    41. He stopped very briefly for a late Duskmeal at a little bigger concentration of urban structure along the canal in the Sentinels


    42. Sharnie lived a rather urban lifestyle for these parts, spinning lots of yarn in the weaving barn and spending the proceeds on cooks and cups around the pond


    43. There were several new families around the village transplanted from more urban roots, and who were less able to initially cope with the harsh winters of the Sierra village


    44. “It’s going to be boring around here without you to lend a bit of urban flair to our simple lives


    45. The urban area seemed to extend a hundred miles to the north along the lakeshore, and almost a hundred miles down river toward the east-southeast


    46. Even though the Yakhan is actually bigger, it is spread out into satellites and long, narrow urban strands along the canals


    47. The people who lived here were still urban but they lived in detached or semi-detached houses with little bits of ground behind them or on top of them where they might grow a few salad fixings and some spices and/or sit outdoors in the shade of a tree


    48. Actually two thirds of the urban population of Zhlindu lives in the twenty five to one hundred miles of urban flatland that surrounds the mountain


    49. The new road they were on soon settled down to be a row of urban businesses along that road, plots down all the side streets


    50. The northern shore for the last thirty miles or so was ever more lavish townhouses and docks, the southern shore had urban beach with forest behind somewhere inland














































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    Synonyms for "urban"

    urban municipal metropolitan civil city civic county

    "urban" definitions

    relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area


    located in or characteristic of a city or city life