1.   Recent economic doldrums have damaged the rural west.

2.   Land trusts, long a preservation tool in New England, now are growing fastest in the rural west.

3.   Support was much stronger for the assembly in the rural west and north, where the nationalist party, Plaid Cymru, is influential.

4.   A handful of Welsh-speaking nationalists in rural west Wales saved his plan for huge constitutional change in Britain.

5.   Sanchez is a U.S. resident alien and says he owns a trailer and some land in rural west Texas, near Big Bend National Park.

6.   The country will also adopt new preferential policies to lure investment and technology to its rural west over the next five years, he said.

7.   The EU campaign in general pitted the heavily populated southeast against the more rural west and sparsely populated arctic provinces.

8.   The normally small gallery in rural west Georgia was bolstered by busloads of soldiers from Fort Benning.

9.   He was born in the county of Roscommon, in rural west Ireland, close to his political stronghold in the neighbouring county of Longford.