Rising school attendance, environmental progress - such as tree-planting and river bank strengthening - are all welcome improvements.
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At the working-class picnic on a river bank in France everyone is porcine and unlovely, the light is dreary, the grass is scraggly.
On the other, the broad St Lawrence River is a steely grey-blue, its opposite bank a distant misty outline.
Mr Bennett combines talk of Jewish spiritual renewal with an implacable hostility towards the creation of a Palestinian state on the West Bank of the River Jordan and in Gaza - the so-called two-state solution which has been the cornerstone of international diplomacy in this region for decades.
Earlier on Wednesday, he visited Qasr el Yahud - the site on the West Bank of the River Jordan where Israel says Jesus was baptised.
Moenjodaro, located on the right bank of the Indus River, 510 km north-east of Karachi, in Pakistan's Sindh Province, flourished for about 1000 years during the third and second millennium BC.
Kaziranga, a 330-square-mile expanse on the southern bank of the swirling Brahmaputra River, which flows from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bay of Bengal, is one of the final sanctuaries of rhinoceros unicornis, the one-horned rhino.
Positioned at Pudong's tip, the Oriental Pearl Tower was a cartoonish totem for China's race into modernity and an emphatic counterpoint to the Bund, a strip of colonial-era buildings on the opposite Puxi bank of the Huangpu River.
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We put a job training and placement system together that eventually included river bank and estuary stabilization, urban forestry, brownfield remediation and green-roof installation.
Historic sites such as Somerset House on the north bank are also being re-developed to link them with the river.
Yet unless the remitters became embroiled in a serious crime, often involving drug money, Western lawmakers largely ignored them, focusing instead on trying to dam the river of dirty money that flowed through traditional banking channels--chiefly through the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act, and later its amendments, which required banks to file reports of suspicious activity and high-dollar transactions, and to maintain information about account holders' identities.
Accessed via a footbridge, the Cabin -- created by Cyren and Cyren -- is suspended from the surrounding pines on a steep bank, affording views of the Lulea River.
Everything he says and does from his power base (which is appropriately down river from Westminster and on the other bank of the Thames) will be seen through the prism of his scarcely-concealed political ambition.
Shanghai's Pudong district, across the Huangpu river from the old foreign bank buildings on the Bund, shows just how serious China is: a Hong Kong-style skyline of towering buildings, including one housing the largest stockmarket trading-floor in the world, all of it built in just the past decade.
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