• Yet since the last big Himalayan quake, in 1950, India's population has trebled and urbanised.

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  • Hundreds of millions of its people are now urbanised, educated, literate, informed, intellectual and opinionated.

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  • Australia's most urbanised beaches still represent the hedonistic, social side of beach going.

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  • The results for urbanised Himba were "indistinguishable" from the results of undergraduates taking the same tests in London, said Dr Linnell.

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  • Would imposing a charge to enter Holland's highly urbanised Randstad which the Dutch government is considering cause fewer vehicles to come in?

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  • In urbanised western Europe, 80% of journeys are below 60km, and 20% of cars in Europe about 20m vehicles never go any further.

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  • In that period, Colombia has changed from an inward-looking country ruled by an oligarchical elite into an increasingly dynamic and urbanised democracy.

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  • He contests UN estimates that over three-fifths of the country is urbanised.

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  • Newly urbanised Texans buy their pickups to make a similar statement.

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  • It is also not a "fleeting" impact, she suggests, as the tests show that urbanised people from this tribe have developed a different way of looking at events.

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  • This free-for-all is almost as alien to the better educated, more law-abiding, Sunni citizens of Taiz, the most urbanised region in the north, or Hodeida, its main port, as it is to the southerners.

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  • Better infrastructure and education in the more urbanised north mean that the benefits of Mexico's membership of the North American Free-Trade Agreement have accrued there, while income in the south stagnates because of low productivity.

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  • It's still a place where hopelessly urbanised weekenders and second-homers are willing to pay handsomely for rustic experiences, provided only too happily by locals whose other sources of income (such as whaling and potato farming) have long vanished.

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  • Both disaffected groups have tended to support the Liberal Party, and many of their members live in marginal constituencies along the urbanised east coast, where Labor needs to snatch only a handful of seats to take power.

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  • Mohammed Ali, the Pakistani who launched it, argues that the approach that Bradford's various Asians take to education depends mainly on their socio-economic background: the children of Sikhs from rural areas, for example, do worse than Muslim youngsters whose parents are urbanised East Africans.

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