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Sentence Examples At the start of the series, Lindsey shuns her past as a straight-A student to slum with the school's stoner contingent. It was devoted explicitly to urban renewal in this notorious slum region of the city. I could slap her slum landlord with a fine, a whipping or a public egging for failing to fix the elevator to her third floor walk-up. Once a deprived, slum like area, the Sydney suburb of Paddington is now among the city's most affluent. Thousands welcomed him with streamers and posters wishing him a happy birthday as he toured slum areas. It's a fascinating potted history, following Moore's life and career from Northampton slum to Northampton scribe. Transplantation of slum dwellers from the cities to other areas has been under way. Usually, such mock drills are only conducted in high-rise buildings and in shopping complexes, but they are essential also in slum areas. It will condemn countless children to further years in often slum like school conditions. She ended up living and working with Hong Kong's most despised and poorest inhabitants in a slum known as the Walled City. The landlords had neglected the upkeep a few years back and it had got a bit slum like. As you can see, the Red Party has a lot of natural support in inner city slum areas like this. It is like an inner-city slum and the street cleaning leaves a lot to be desired. There is also a primary school at the premises run by the committee for the poor and slum dwellers in the locality. The appalling social situation in Iran has been highlighted by recent reports of protest marches in working class urban areas and slum districts. If a slum is preferable, then we can only imagine the life in their native village. If one went by media depictions one would think his neighbourhood is a crime-ridden slum. In fact, like Lorenzo, the Tuscan aristocracy liked nothing better than to slum it when it came to gastronomy. With all his savagery, he was not half so savage, so unclean, so irreclaimable, as the tenant of a tenement in an East London slum. Demolishing slum areas and constructing apartment buildings for former slum dwellers has never been a success in helping the poor. Show More Sentences Labyrinthine streets of ancient slum housing traversed the steep hill up to the impregnable city walls. Without the alternative of new council housing for rent, record numbers are now homeless and in temporary flats and slum hotels. On one of them the then Secretary of State for Scotland took me, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, to see some of the worst slum tenements. Imagine you're over 60 years of age and a squatter living in the largest slum in Kenya. The bins have been left for weeks on the kerbside, simply adding to Bradford's reputation as a slum city. In reality, they were vast slum areas without industry or fertile soil for agriculture. It's not poverty, you're not living in the ghetto or slum, but there's a kind of blandness to it. For miles, slum settlements and filthy, pot-holed streets dominate the landscape. In cities in India, as well as in Brazil and other deeply divided countries, quite luxurious enclaves coexist uneasily with slum and ghettos. The slum buildings of the ghetto produce an endless stream of hungry and fearful rats. If one went by media depictions, he lamented, one would think his neighbourhood is a crime-ridden slum. Also not so long ago, cases of cholera and gastro-enteritis surfaced from various parts of the city, mainly affecting infants from slum areas. Elvis lives with his unemployed, alcoholic father in a swampland slum where even a trip to the local watering hole is tinged with danger. People crowd around a water vendor in a slum area in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. They were Hogarthian drawings of slum buildings with broken windows stuffed with rubbish and humans sprawled in the gutter, dead drunk among the filth. In the rural areas and urban slum areas, this is a contributing factor to the high rates of infant mortality. The hutments and slums have also assumed a political dimension, since slum dwellers have voting rights and get to flex their muscles in elections. A slum dweller has no door to slam in the face of prying reporters. Two hundred girls are weaving in and out of dirty alleys in the seaside slum of West Point, Liberia. However, years spent among the farmers, fishermen, lepers and slum dwellers of more than 20 different countries rid Stackhouse of these easy assumptions. Show More Sentences In shantytown, the titular slum of Buenos Aires is the backdrop for a series of killings that threaten the entire community. Then one day on set, three slum girls came to watch the crew film in their shantytown. More serious still, the slum dwellers face enormous risk from unsafely built environments. With a group of young men in the slum he formed Rock Angels, a drag act performing dance, music and drama. A five-minute stroll from the memorial hall, in the slum he lives in, Cheng adopts a different tone. Police have reclaimed 33 slum communities once dominated by drug traffickers. Cite Soleil, the capital's front door, is a 27 sq mile slum where an estimated one million people live in shanties lacking plumbing, electricity or permanent roofs. Pronouncing illegality, governments will often undertake demolitions of slum houses. As part of the activities of the trust we have started free classes for girl students from local government schools from a nearby slum who come from poor families. But ironically the former slum houses are now sought-after properties following regeneration and the flats have become increasingly unpopular with residents. I think that we will live here for maybe 12 months and then move elsewhere leaving the house as a slum and make a start again a little further down the road. He was generous with his media time, arrived punctually in a blazer for the toss, and apparently saw fit to slum it in the same five-star hotels as his team. Asia's largest slum lies smack bang between a high-tech business district with gleaming glass skyscrapers and a tiny Mumbai suburb dotted with grand Art Deco mansions. During a recent visit, I found liberals and intellectuals, jet-setters and slum dwellers, men and women, Brahmins and untouchables expressing this Hindu pride. In the 1990s, it helped slum residents in Bombay to claim the land they were squatting on and turn it into a proper residential estate with running water and electricity. The government owns the deeds to the Kibera land and the Nubians, who live in the slum themselves, rent out the ramshackle corrugated iron dwellings and mud huts. An American charity has launched the world's first slum theme park, complete with around 30 ramshackle hovels, a communal outdoor toilet and door-to-door detritus. By the time the fields were enclosed in 1845, the damage was done, and not until the 20th cent. did slum clearance remove Nottingham's notorious courts and alleys. Its atmosphere is nonetheless bleak, evoking cold gray skies and a pinched existence in a slum area of town, with the ever-present fear of discrimination. Lilywhite wards and the astringent smell of disinfectant had turned into a sad and pullulating slum, the saving grace being the medical orderlies who had refused to surrender. Show More Sentences The EU encourages Morocco to proceed resolutely with its slum clearance programme and to continue applying the provisions of the new labour code. These housing units will contribute to slum clearance and allow young households notably to own their own homes. He asserted that affordable housing, slum clearance and urban development should be subsets of green architecture, not vice versa. This social housing and slum clearance project, approved by the Commission in 1999, is part of a national campaign against slum housing. Evictions due to urban slum clearance or development projects can put a disproportionate burden on women. It expressed concern about slum clearance, forced eviction and insufficient protection for internally displaced persons. When Old Town's residential neighborhood devolved into a slum, the city planners laid out New Town in the elegant Georgian style of the late 18th century. Major works, such as main drainage and slum clearance, were put in the hands of the Metropolitan Board of Works. During the meeting, officials raised the possibility of quarantining the entire slum. One of the ideas under this project was to rehouse the inhabitants of a nearby slum area but it has not really worked. If the band's sound is bad, underworked, you'll feel it right away in this ruthless slum for metalheads. The reader is flattered to share the other worlds of sophisticated experience that she brings to bear upon her sorry Gypsy slum. At once monumental and fragile, it brought to mind the jury-rigged shacks constructed from cast-off materials found in every township or slum area. In the slum, it meant aluminum, electroplate, nickel, and an alloy sometimes used to make forks and knives. But on short-haul, most of us are willing to slum it for an hour or two if it means a cheaper airfare. Mrs Hiyale lives hand to mouth, subsisting in a slum on 100 rupees a day with the help of a local charity. The street has come to resemble a slum, with potholes in the road and gardens concreted over to make them easier to maintain. According to him, the upper classes think of slum residents as lazy, criminal elements out to swindle the resources of the city. When Davis asked him about exploitative bosses and slum landlords, Cameron claimed to be infuriated. Phiona Mutesi happened upon chess as a nine-year-old in the sprawling and impoverished Katwe slum of the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Show More Sentences If you live in a slum in Nairobi, seeing development money pouring into a luxury block of flats is an insult. In the Philippines, the health organization Likhaan works in some of the poorest slum areas of major cities such as Manila. For example, the Charkop slum is a considerable distance from the hospital. Ronaldo was living on his own in a slum, without any doors or windows and with part of the ceiling covered in plastic. Then she came and told us the news since we know almost all the children and families living in the slum near the railway station. People whose residential address indicates that they live in a slum area may be treated badly or excluded from a service. Why does the Minister of National Defence think that he can get away with things that even slum lords would be held accountable for? A full implementation of these recommendations would certainly contribute to improving the lives of slum dwellers. First call was to a Paris slum hotel, where long lines of bedbugs marched over ceilings all day, and at night fed on the blood of half-starved residents. Set in a Glasgow slum 30 years ago during the binmen's strike, Ratcatcher focuses on the aftermath of a drowning in a canal and its effect on a 12-year-old boy. She might as well have been going to a Calcutta slum or sold into slavery. Although I did not leave school and join politics, I believed in social service and started a night school in a slum at the sea front, and ran it for several years. The agreements define the tasks to be carried out by the selected enterprise and the process for managing and implementing slum clearance activities, as defined in the contract for the city concerned. Krishnaraj Rao, a lawyer and activist, initiated a programme with slum children a decade ago, painting lines on the roads to mark where pedestrians could walk in safety. Urban development or slum clearance programmes for areas not covered by safeguarding plans should respect buildings and other elements of architectural or historic value as well asaccompanying buildings. Four programmes were elaborated to deal respectively with housing in danger of collapse, the restructuring of illegal housing settlements, the provision of social housing in the southern regions and slum clearance. Manpower was provided for slum areas to take off the offal and do other janitorial works with germicide spray in all zones of District Central. In addition, they run a 'feeding program', which involves feeding and improving the nutritional health of the destitute in slum areas and on the streets. Other projects affecting the northern region are hydro-agricultural improvements around Sahla in the north of Taounate province, slum clearance in Tangiers and support for traditional Mediterranean 38 inshore fishing. Although this has a relatively wide scope, an important number of activities explicitly target tribal or minority groups and children in urban slum areas. Show More Sentences Lucia was clear and passionate as she described how the economics of progress had washed away her family's livelihood in the foothills of the highlands, and swept her up in this urban slum in Guatemala City. This initiative aims to bring together pro-city programmes in developing countries in terms of urban strategy, municipal management, and slum clearance. Large houses were turned into flats and tenements, and as landlords failed to maintain these dwellings, slum housing developed. The security situation in Cité Soleil, where numerous armed factions have made the slum a no-go area for local police, presents serious challenges to successful implementation of public works activities. Neither the slum nor the suburb offers a model for a sustainable city. Officials said it was a freak of nature that had sent a wall of water barrelling down the steep, narrow streets of the slum district of Bab al-Oued. Government authorities need to de-link provision of services from land rights and recognise the needs of unofficial slum communities within the next three years. Images of slum areas in Africa and South-East Asia, with sick children and emaciated adults and streets covered in indescribable filth, never fail to shock the world. A hodge-podge of makeshift clinics continue to operate in the slum. These women have become SHK's spearhead: their close and friendly relationship with the slum dwellers as well as their active collaboration are essential for spreading information and raising awareness among the population. Street youth all over the world share a culture which is characterized by economic marginalization, the formation of youth gangs in the face of family breakdowns and the misery of slum life, and mistrust of authorities. They are likely to belong to an indigenous group or ethnic minority, to be disabled, to live in rural areas, an urban slum or a conflict affected area. At this critical moment, facing the inadequacy of health structures within the slum communities and the limitations of matrons, pregnant women begin their perilous journey to seek health care outside their neighbourhood. It has been claimed he delivered slum priests to the brutal 1976 to 1983 dictatorship's death squads while he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires. He will live in an overcrowded slum environment on a poverty level far below average subsistency. From bootboy slum ghetto sport to a sanitised middle class fad and a national obsession that transcends class and gender. A minority number of Tsawwassen band members are going to be living next to an industrial area in an area that anywhere else in the western world would be called a slum. In 1971, slum dwellers accounted for one in six Mumbai residents. Boys from the various slum areas would form themselves into gangs of 'laaities' and would jealously protect their areas of operation. This abnegation of responsibility by the state and its failure to offer protection to slum communities in Brazil and Jamaica has allowed criminal gangs and drug factions to dominate virtually every aspect of life. Show More Sentences Foreign and Haitian NGOs play an important role in the sector, especially in rural and urban slum areas. Living in a rural area or an urban slum, being disabled, belonging to a minority group or speaking a minority language all raise the likelihood of being excluded. Mobility in Nairobi is characterised by the majority of the population having limited access to public transport and most are forced to walk, in particular those who live in the slum areas in or around Nairobi city. One of the most notorious slum landlords was Peter Rachman, who owned around 100 properties in the Notting Hill area of London. The slum was based around narrow streets, badly ventilated and full of crowded houses that led to festering diseases. Rent strikes spread from heavily industrialised areas of the city to artisanal areas and slum areas. The Old Town became an increasingly dilapidated, overcrowded slum with high mortality rates. A young man from the London slum area of Bermondsey, Searle had already been kept by older men. A critical and empirical assessment of slum clearance measures in Morocco. Plus, Oppermann explained, you get slum clearance into the bargain. Former boxer and coalman Wray was one of a family of nine born in a slum in Glasgow's Gorbals. Please provide information on measures taken to provide alternative housing to households that have been affected by the programme of slum clearance and the renovation of substandard housing. In the Victorian imagination, crime and the criminal class were always associated with rookeries, the dense slum areas in which criminals were said to live. The rebuilding that followed, and the simultaneous slum clearance that saw whole neighbourhoods demolished and rebuilt, transformed the faces of Northern cities. Other areas where progress has been significant include the reduction of people suffering from undernourishment and the decline of the proportion of slum dwellers in cities. Ten grammes each of propolis, bee wax and slum gum and 10 ml of honey were applied at the flight entrance, walls of the hives and on the top bars. The Botchergate East area until recently had older slum dwellings. Fr Maier has lived in Klong Toey slum for 36 years, cares for over 200 orphans at the centre, and his centre educates 200 more in slums across the region. The downside of this influx to the great megalopolis was the rise of the urban slum. Slum populations are often deliberately and sometimes massively undercounted. Show More Sentences This social mobilizer team is being dispatched to the Susan's Bay slum, a densely populated and extremely poor area of Freetown. It drew its details from Maugham's experiences as a medical student doing midwifery work in Lambeth, a South London slum. Lice were common, especially amongst workers who worked and slept side by side in the cramped conditions of the slum. Highlights include Baby Don't Do It, on which he trades licks with guitar godfather BB King, funky The Slummer the Slum and bluesy Don't Be Ashamed. Examples from Classical Literature Mumbai airport has been under security threat owing to slum inhabitation very close to its premises. Instead he had come to America, where he lived in a garret room in this slum district, and made volcanic energy take the place of fire. A gipsy encampment to-day is little more than a moving slum, a scab of squalor on the fair face of the countryside. If they were poor, like the slum people, I could understand it better. Contrast this picture with self-help enumerations being conducted by slum dwellers in such spots as Pune, Nairobi or Durban. It was like a slum hidden away in the heart of a fashionable city. The same procedure was followed at noon when slum was served. Chain-smoker Mr Reid will slum it with other nicotine addicts at a custom-built smoking room rather than puff away in the privacy of his own little office. Slum slid from the bar to the ground, and his deep-set eyes were smiling again. 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