"resident" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In Vermont, residents of Williston, near Burlington, are battling a developer who wants to build a large shopping mall.
- The residents were battling to use the pool and gym at the new Stuyvesant High School within the development.
- Despite the desperation some residents are battling the odds, determined to make a success of life as a refugee.
- Many local residents of the townships under threat battled the fires with garden hoses, as there were not enough fire-fighters.
- The area is vulnerable to wildfires, but residents have battled with the city over getting permission to clear brush from slopes and around homes.
- And in Hawaii, residents have been battling the termites for well over a century.
- Another advantage is that many local residents now commute to Hartford, fighting traffic and battling for parking space.
- That luck seemed to have run out in the late 1960's, but residents battled successfully to prevent an interstate highway from being routed through the community.
- The residents still must battle to revise the project, but their court victory was a watershed.
- The latter was the subject of bitter controversy in 2006-2007 as residents battled to keep it from being changed into an industrial estate.
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