The communes bear the names of theirurban centers.
To the smallness of the urban centers their lack of municipal conveniences is partly to be attributed.
He was like the sparrows of the capital; black with soot, but full of an urban sharpness, they slip in and out among the heavy wagon-wheels, and know everything.
He attaches especial importance to urban selection, as he calls it, in weeding out the best stocks.
Furthermore the impulse of the famous crusades first took form here under the fervent appeal of Urban II.
Near the cathedral in the Rue de Petit Gras is the birthplace of the precocious Blaise Pascal, who next to Urban II.
Accordingly, the bishop and his chapter transferred their dignity to a Benedictine monastery at Montpellier, which had been founded in 1364 by Pope Urban V.
More than a hundred years later, Pope Urban VIII, who had some nieces in the Carmelite Convent on the other side Arno, persuaded the monks to exchange their home for the Carmine.
At any rate he returned to Europe, where Urban II, urged by Peter the Hermit, was already half inclined to proclaim the First Crusade.
Now I think there's no Satisfaction to be found amidst an Urban Throng (as Mr. Bayes calls it).
These men were usually urban slaves possessing unusual talents, and thereby escaping much of the emasculation which the typical slave had to endure.
The Urban League soon spread into other major cities and gained increasing importance as ever-growing numbers of Negroes migrated into Northern urban areas and needed assistance in making the adjustment.
Some had left their communities to fight in the Army, and some had moved into large urban centers to work in defense industries.
Most of them wore a fez which set them apart from the typical urban black.
The National Urban League grew out of a concern for the employment problems of Negroes in New York City.
Then, thousands moved from the rural South to the urban North to escape the growth of segregation and to find economic advancement.
Congress of Racial Equality--carried on the militant side of the struggle in Northern urban centers, and it involved many Northern liberals in crusades to help the movement in the South.
Most of the Puerto Ricans settled in urban centers in the Northeast, and they established a large, Spanish-speaking community in New York City.
Urban whites resented the influx of rural blacks from the South who were pouring into their cities, and they tried to confine the newcomers to dilapidated, older neighborhoods.
Urban Riots In spite of the fact that Negroes were fighting overseas to defend their country, racial tensions continued at home.
This meeting resulted in the establishing of the Urban League which has been concerned primarily with finding employment for Negroes and aiding them in acquiring improved job skills.
Hastie of the Harvard Law School, Eugene Kinckle Jones of the Urban League, Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune of the National Council of Negro Women, Robert C.
To the contrary, militant blacks maintained that the Civil Rights Movement itself was one of the primary causes of the urban riots.
It will be noted that the lowest ratios are in provinces where the urban population is comparatively large.
Wherever statistics have been gathered it is the rule that the percentage of consanguineous marriage is greater in rural than in urban districts.
This is rather higher than the average for urban districts, according to official figures, but Dally seems to consider it as typical.
Whether from a prescience of the beneficial influence it was destined to exert upon mankind, or from a suspicion of its power of sharpening intellects, it is difficult to say; but Popes Urban VIII.
In France the criminality of the urban population is just double that of the rural population.
The urban population increases then very much more rapidly than the rural population.
Such would be their respective death-rates on the hypothesis that the urban districts and the rural districts were equally healthy.
It is often pointed out that an Urban Sanitary District is not always a town.
We know, however as a matter of fact that urban death-rates, instead of being lower than rural death-rates, are much higher.
The south side belongs to the urban district of Braintree; the north to the rural district of Bocking.
A second basic feature has been the guarantee of lifetime employment for a substantial portion of the urban labor force; this guarantee is eroding.
A new housing program under a new Housing and Urban Affairs Department will be needed this year.
Our growing economy has helped to revive poor urban and rural neighborhoods, but we must do more to empower them to create the conditions in which all families can flourish and to create jobs through investment by business and loans by banks.
An historic new approach--Urban Renewal--now replaces piecemeal thrusts at slum pockets and urban blight.
So a Department of Housing and Urban Development will be needed to spearhead this effort in our cities.
Since that time, we have created the Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) program and substantially expanded the economic development programs in the Commerce Department.
In 1966, Congress declared that "improving the quality of urban life is the most critical domestic problem facing the United States.
It would facilitate land assembly for urban redevelopment by loans and contributions to local public agencies where the localities do their share.
The roster of urban problems with which they must cope is staggering.
A crowded and constantly increasing urban population suggests the impoverishment of rural sections and discontent with agricultural pursuits.
We should restore contaminated urban land and buildings to constructive use.
In our urban areas the central problem today is to protect and restore man's satisfaction in belonging to a community where he can find security and significance.
He could not be judged before the previous nomination of the urban praetor, and before the convocation of the comitia.
At the same time, it hoped to intimidate the urban mob by bringing into Rome, from all parts of Italy,[586] the citizens upon whom it relied.
Each season in its turn found people dwelling peaceably in their urban habitations, entertaining and being entertained; and so "the Season" lost its sharp edges.
Large segments of the population, especially those living in urban areas, continue to depend on humanitarian aid to meet basic food requirements.
Electricity is available in only a few urban areas.
Where is the just man that they have elected for Antipope," she writes again to the Queen of Naples, "if in very sooth our supreme pontiff, Pope Urban VI.
They were among the men of holy life whom Pope Urban summoned to Rome, to assist in the reformation of the Church, and neither wished to leave their beloved solitude.
Her last extant letter to Urban himself is to urge him to adopt a mild and generous policy towards the Roman People.
Urban would have Catherine address his new cardinals assembled in the Consistory, after which he "praised her much in the Lord.
In the meanwhile Urban had hired the Italian mercenaries of the Company of St George, commanded by Count Alberico da Balbiano.
She was still in Florence when Gregory died, and the Archbishop of Bari, Bartolommeo Prignani, was elected Pope amidst the furious clamours of the Roman populace, as Urban VI.
Realising that the feeling of the city was turning against them, the Twelve sent a splendid embassy to receive Pope Urban V.
Urban is at first offended by her frankness, rebukes her messengers, and will not listen to her.
Sant' Angelo was held by the soldiery of the Antipope, who kept Urban out of the Vatican; the Breton mercenaries threatened the gates, and there were savage tumults in the streets.
Value is not to be understood apart from what Urban calls its "presuppositions.
And our theory carries us even further than Professor Urban cares to go here.
Urban VII is placed at the head of the roll of the pontiffs hostile to the Jesuits.
Marco of Florence was the portrait of Pope Urban V.
Domenico, at Arezzo, a church and convent built by the lords of Pietramela in the year 1275, as their coat of arms proves, he did many things before returning to Rome, where he had already given great satisfaction to Pope Urban IV.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "urban" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
