For its part, Basel secured the military help of the other cantons when threatened, and some protection for its rural subjects outside its walls.

For much of the PRC's population, living standards have seen extremely large improvements and freedom continues to expand, but political controls remain tight and rural areas poor.

For the ordinary citizen though, especially in rural areas, often the only options are to cycle, walk or go by dugout canoe.

For example, the Kothmale Community Radio Internet uses both radio broadcasts and computer and Internet technologies to facilitate the sharing of information and provide educational opportunities in a rural community in Sri Lanka.

For others, the traditional way of eating is still rather common, and not only in rural areas.

For Pare Lorentz's U. S. Film Service, in the year 1940, he made a poetic documentary film on rural electrification called Power and the Land.

For this reason, the rural European society to which the crusaders were accustomed was replaced by a more secure urban society in the pre-existing cities of the Levant.

For example, they can move some of a rural store's surfeit of fishing gear to an urban store.

For centuries, the so-called Haratin lower class, mostly poor black Africans living in rural areas, have been considered natural slaves by white Moors of Arab / Berber ancestry.

For a number of years both Tolka Row and The Riordans were produced by RTÉ, soon however the urban soap was dropped for the more popular rural soap opera The Riordans – which began in 1965.

For customers in these rural and low density suburban areas fixed wireless ISPs provide a unique service.

" For example, Barcelona, Spain is 0. 2 ° C cooler for daily maxima and 2. 9 ° C warmer for minima than a nearby rural station.

For example most people that grew up in and around Harare have a British sounding accent while those in the rural areas have a more " pigeon-english " sort of accent

For communities that lack adequate Internet connectivity -- like developing countries, rural areas, and prisons -- off-line information stores like the eGranary Digital Library ( a collection of approximately 30 million educational resources from more than 2, 000 Web sites and hundreds of CD-ROMs ) provide off-line access to information.

For example, a trend sweeping Northern America, especially in the rural Northeast, is the conversion of abandoned railways into rail trails.

For years, underpopulated rural areas had deprived metropolitan centers of equal representation in state legislatures.

For most of its history, and even as recently as 1990, Peosta was a quiet rural town of around 100 people.

For many years the area remained rural farmland until large scale suburban development commenced in the early 1950s.

For new construction, the minimum lot size is of buildable land to keep with the city's goal of maintaining a rural atmosphere.

For decades, West Milford was rural with only a couple service stations, a couple small eating establishments, and a bank or two.

For most of two centuries, the business and social affairs of Oak Ridge residents have centered around the farm and such institutions of the rural lifestyle as the crossroads general store and the local gristmill.

For the rest of the 18th century, Coventry remained a rural town populated by farmers.

For a rural area, the hotel had luxurious rooms with a bell hop, a full-time gardner, and laundry service.

For much of its existence, Marysville was a rural area known for farming and for lumber production, although other, smaller industries existed, providing a diverse economy that has played an important role in Marysville's growth over the years.

For example, Izvestia, which covered foreign relations, was the organ of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, Trud was the organ of the trade union movement, Bednota was distributed to the Red Army and rural peasants, etc.

For instance, the rat seen in the cellar was nicknamed " Señor Cojones " by the crew (" cojones " is Spanish slang for " testicles ").

For this reason, slang vocabularies are particularly rich in certain domains, such as violence, crime, drugs, and sex.

For men who have many lesbian friends the slang terms Dutch Boy, lesbro or dyke tyke apply.

For example, Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing used this ploy to present a surface level description of the play as well as a pun on the Elizabethan use of " nothing " as slang for vagina.

For instance, the term firewall ( in the sense of a device used to filter network traffic ) was at first technical slang.

( For more slang and unique climbing-isms, see the glossary of climbing terms.

* For fuck's sake in Internet slang

For most of his column's history, Caen somewhat in jest railed against the slang " Frisco ", considering it a demeaning term for the city, and in 1953 wrote a book called " Don't Call It Frisco " after a 1918 Examiner news item of the same name.

For example, in slang Cantonese, a " bor lo goi " (" pineapple cap ") is colloquial for kneecap.

For this reason, " limey " ( lemons being replaced by limes, which could be obtained from Britain's Caribbean colonies ) later became a common slang word for a British person.

For example, in the Prologue to The Reeve's Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer's character laments his old age, comparing himself to the medlar, which he names using the slang term " open-arse ":

For example, schranzen means to eat loudly and voraciously in German ( and Dutch ) slang and it is also a surname found predominantly in Austria.

For Mexicans, especially those who live in Texas, " carancho " is commonly used as a slang term, which refers to a " smart-alec " or " smarty pants ".

For instance, contractions and slang are not used, and many idioms are alien to Hongkongers as they do not pertain to English-speaking countries ' cultures.

* Rugby For Pussies a European slang form, describing American football.

' For Will, the Swimming-Pool Library is slang for the changing-room to which he and his friends would slip in the middle of the night for illicit sexual activities.

For example, time is measured in 24 hours rather than 12 hour segments as in the civilian world, and distances are often described in meters and kilometers ( or " Clicks " in military slang ) instead of yards or miles.

For this reason, slang often inaccurately refers to initiating circuits of a Fire Alarm Control Panel as Zones.

: For the rural slang name for northwestern Prince Edward Island, see West Prince ( locality ).

For those living in more urbanized regions of Indonesia, Indonesian slang language often functions as the primary language medium for communication in daily life.

For example, in Bandung, West Java, the local slang language contains vocabulary from the Sundanese language while the slang found in Jakarta tends to be heavily influenced by English or the old Batavian dialect ( i. e. the language of the original inhabitants of Jakarta or Batavia as it was known during the Dutch colonial period ).

For more information relating to the geographics of Indonesian slang and regional influences, please see " Region Specific Slang " below ).

For example, the word Bapak was broken into B-ok-apak and the last-ak is deleted, and the resulting word is Bokap which, until this day, is used as a slang term for Father.