(n.) In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.
(n.) In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.
Example Sentences:
(1) A community health survey of 923 residents aged 30 years or more was performed in Putai Township of Taiwan.
(2) Free Tibet said the men had objected to the arrest of a Tibetan called Thubwang for his part in a protest in Tagkhar township on 25 January, in which local residents marched to the government offices and pulled down a Chinese flag.
(3) Innovative techniques were used to help the field workers to understand and apply the concept of randomization to the streets and houses of their Township.
(4) Starting in Latin America, Asia and Africa, working with developers whose customers live in the favelas and shanty towns and townships, Mozilla aims to foment revolution which, if it succeeds, will filter back to the west.
(5) My work entailed travelling throughout the country, living now in African townships, then in country villages and again in cities.
(6) The strategic locations are: Stratford, in east London, which is seen as an emerging Olympic city and centrepiece of the country's bid for the 2012 Olympics; Greenwich and Woolwich, involving new and rebuilt communities near the floundering millennium dome site; Barking, where work has already begun on a new township; Thurrock in Essex, involving a new urban development corporation with sweeping planning powers, and North Kent Thameside, between Dartford and Gravesend, which embraces Ebbsfleet.
(7) To determine the impact of the political violence on health and health services, selected routinely available information was analyzed, a community survey was conducted of 1,540 randomly selected households in high, medium, and low impact areas (defined using police and community reports), and a survey of 162 nurses (75 per cent response rate) working in clinic and maternity services in Cape Town's townships was undertaken.
(8) During the 1st year, MCH workers sought pregnant mothers and brought them to the township center for antenatal care early in their pregnancies.
(9) It dismays Kirk that Warp moved to London but he's still in touch with them and their releases, effusing particularly about DJ Mujava and "Township Funk".
(10) A total of 3519 and 3739 individuals were examined in each township.
(11) Aedes aegypti is found to be highly prevalent both in rural and urban areas of almost every major town and townships below 900 meters.
(12) Originally planned as a community of 200,000, the population now numbers around one million, half of whom live in informal housing, making it one of the biggest and fastest growing townships in the country.
(13) For village A, there was more than a twofold association both with residence in the township for 55 years or more and with living in a particular area within the village.
(14) Primary health workers made more mistakes in diagnosis (66.67%) and treatment (78.18%) compared with those made by township doctors and county doctors.
(15) A study was undertaken to ascertain the vaccination coverage of children aged 12-23 months living in Khayelitsha, a peri-urban township outside Cape Town, and to identify factors associated with measles vaccination coverage.
(16) There was a smaller group of black spectators from a nearby township, determined to show they could now stand where they pleased.
(17) The central question always legitimately asked of a country grappling to forge its post-apartheid future and deal with entrenched poverty, particularly in the black townships, is whether South Africa should really be spending £800m in public money hosting a football tournament.
(18) A three-year study has been conducted for prevention of infectious hepatitis with supplementation of table salt fortified with 15 ppm anhydrous sodium selenite to the general population of 20,847 persons in a township M.Z.
(19) "The government did not fund the empower shack, though they helped us speed up the approval process," said Andy Bolnick, founder of iKhayalami , the NGO that built the shack in Khayelitsha township.
(20) It's probably just a fire in one of the townships.” Following Torino, Seoul and Helsinki, Cape Town is the fourth city to be awarded the title of World Design Capital, an accolade bestowed by the Montreal-based International Council for Societies of Industrial Design , which charges a hefty fee to honour a different city with its logo each year.
Village
Definition:
(n.) A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city.
Example Sentences:
(1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(2) In late May, more than 50 residents of Ust-Usa protested the effects of oil drilling and plans for a new oil well near the village.
(3) A further 23 Syrian Kurds , among them women and children, were shot dead in the nearby village of Barkh Butan, the group said.
(4) At the village level health care is provided at integrated service posts staffed by volunteers trained to treat common health problems with simple means such as treating diarrhea with oral rehydration.
(5) "It is very satisfying work," says the 28-year-old, who earns a net monthly salary of 23,000 kwatcha ($80), probably one of the highest incomes in the village.
(6) A spokesman for the UNHCR said that while there were many agencies working in Walungu, they had "minimal presence" in villages close to areas still occupied by Hutu militias known as FDLR.
(7) The study design of a project to investigate the epidemiology, population dynamics and control of intestinal nematode infections in fishing village communities in Southern India is described.
(8) Co-founder Cyndi Anafo’s mother used to run a Ghanaian grocery in the covered market that has recently been rebranded Brixton Village, a target destination for food tourists and wealthy Londoners.
(9) But despite gendarmes keeping watch at entrances to the village, one local police officer said there were five times more journalists than security forces.
(10) Among 30 villagers who were treated, 4 (13.3%) passed this species with an average of 2.5 worms per infection.
(11) However, there is no certainty that both of Ainu and the people in Ueno derived from the same origin, or that genetic drift due to endogamy in this village took place.
(12) There was no immediate comment from Turkish authorities about the incident, which occurred in the village of Atima, across the border from the Turkish village of Bukulmez in Hatay province.
(13) Activists said the alleged massacre came a day after 72 were killed at the nearby village of Bayda .
(14) A village will be subject to rigorous evaluations in order to demonstrate sustainability and scalability, and that aid developed with an exit strategy can actually work.
(15) Mass drug administration via 3 modes of delivery reduced the incidence and prevalence rates and intensity of Brugia malayi infection in 3 rural villages in the Bengkoka Peninsula, Sabah, in 1982-1983.
(16) Even more haunting were stories from his wife's village, where the fleeing family found the bodies of her sister and an eight-year-old niece lying in pools of blood.
(17) After 12-14 years of control the community microfilarial load (CMFL) was close to zero in all villages.
(18) Our subjects were young adults born between November 1960 and December 1962 to persons living in 10 villages in southwestern Alaska.
(19) In two experimental subdistricts, researchers observed the work of family welfare assistants (FWAs), the female family planning field-workers, to determine the duration and frequency of their home visits with village women and the content of their exchanges.
(20) He is just 17 years old and came back to his parents in the village after the Ebola virus closed our schools.