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There is an urban legend that a CBC announcer once referred to the network on the air as the " Canadian Broadcorping Castration ", which also sometimes remains in use as a satirical nickname.
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There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
There is little time for the men in the command centers to reflect about the implications of these clocks.
There is a New South emerging, a South losing the folksy traditions of an agrarian society with the rapidity of an avalanche -- especially within recent decades.
It consists of fragmentary personal revelations, such as `` The Spark '': `` There is a spark dwells deep within my soul.
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.
There and urban
There are eight states in which the largest urban vote can be the balance of power in any close election.
There are regular bus services within the urban limits of the cities of Praia on Santiago Island and Mindelo on São Vicente island only.
There are many practical applications of ecology in conservation biology, wetland management, natural resource management ( agroecology, agriculture, forestry, agroforestry, fisheries ), city planning ( urban ecology ), community health, economics, basic and applied science, and human social interaction ( human ecology ).
There is a mix of locally built and imported trolleybuses and trams in the major urban centres of North Korea.
There is also an urban legend that the first game of polo in America was played in Boerne, Texas at retired British officer Captain Glynn Turquand's famous Balcones Ranch.
There was a striking contrast with Japan, where Edo ( Tokyo ) had as many as 1 million inhabitants and the urban population comprised as much as 10 % to 15 % of the total during the Tokugawa Period ( 1600 – 1868 ).
There has been a recent focus among urban planners in some communities to create pedestrian-friendly areas and roads, allowing commuting, shopping and recreation to be done on foot.
There are also think tanks concerning human rights, women rights, labour rights, justice, city development, heritage protection, and environmental protection, all headed by the country's urban dwelling, educated elite living, most of whom have studied or worked abroad.
There was also increasing concern that this trend was badly managed, with it being noted that there was an " ill-defined urban pattern that appears to have few of the truly desirable urban qualities and yet manifests no compensating rural characteristics.
There are many examples of considered urban design in the Middle Ages ( see, e. g., David Friedman, Florentine New Towns: Urban Design in the Late Middle Ages, MIT 1988 ).
There are clear indications of impact through Renaissance urban design on the thought of Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei ( see, e. g., Abraham Akkerman, " Urban planning in the founding of Cartesian thought ," Philosophy and Geography 4 ( 1 ), 2001 ).
There are two types of Local Government in operation: Panchayats in rural areas and Municipalities in urban areas.
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