"settlement" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A third of Manilans live cheek by jowl in makeshift settlements on any bit of spare land - under bridges, next to railway lines, beside flood defences as well as cemeteries.
- It remains to be seen whether this means that the evacuation, scheduled to start next week, will take place smoothly, since at least one makeshift settlement contains a quite militant population.
- Thus, because of their precarious situation, the Zabbaleen initially lived in makeshift settlements of tin huts, made mostly of barrels that the Zabbaleen found amongst the waste that they collected.
- Not long after the Pilgrims set anchor in the harbor they called Plymouth in 1620, the Wampanoag leader Massasoit paid them a visit near their makeshift settlement and made a wary offer of friendship.
- Late in the seventh season, the ship finds a colony of Talaxians on a makeshift settlement in an asteroid field, and Neelix chooses to bid Voyager farewell and live once again amongst his people.
- Deep in the jungle here, makeshift settlements of wood logs and plastic sheets are springing up everywhere, their population swelling monthly.
- Defense Minister Moshe Arens warned that illegal actions would not be tolerated and that the makeshift settlements would be dismantled.
- At first, some residents mistook the makeshift settlement in the shopping center for a group of homeless people, said the Carmel Town Supervisor, Richard T. Othmer.
- Fire was always a deadly danger in makeshift settlements like the Camp, and one of the most important things the original military command council had done was to organize fire drills and firefighting procedures.
- Tonight, dozens of bloodstained blankets and mattresses, a charred, flat-bed truck and the scent of corpses were all that was left of the makeshift settlement.
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