"neighbor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He had difficulty settling down in communities as the neighbors would protest his presence and employers would fire him.
- She and her neighbors protested, babes in arms, and were hauled off to the town offices for a talking-to by the police chief.
- But neighbors learned of his plan through school and parole officials and protested so fiercely that the sister withdrew her offer.
- Across town, neighbors are protesting the establishment of several group homes for mentally retarded adults.
- The neighbors protested; they were afraid of you.
- When neighbors protested, Mr. DeFlumer's sister rescinded her offer to take him.
- But when neighbors protested, Mrs. Reagan and her friends abandoned the project.
- The issue inverts the classic politics of Nimby - when neighbors protest a new jail, for instance, with chants of "not in my backyard."
- The neighbors protested and they withdrew.
- Ms. Tomic's statement says she "bears witness to a silence in which neighbors didn't protest the murder of neighbors."
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