The 2005 French riots in some troubled and impoverished suburbs (les quartiers sensibles) were an example of such tensions.

The rioting that recently engulfed the impoverished suburbs of Paris recalls the riots that plagued America's inner cities in the 1960's.

The demonstrations stretched even to Al-Thawra, an impoverished Shiite-dominated suburb of the capital, and dozens of people were killed.

Raised in Stanmore, at the time an impoverished suburb of Sydney, he attended, on a scholarship, Fort Street High School in that city.

No longer content to climb up the canyon walls, its impoverished suburbs are now spreading across the high plains of the Altiplano to the west.

Collins grew up in Compton, California, an impoverished suburb of Los Angeles, where he was raised as an orphan and became immersed in gang culture.

Similar groups were created among the Caribbeans and African Blacks living in the impoverished suburbs of Paris especially.

Unlike the city, where restaurant and retail jobs offer some hope to the poor, Ford Heights and other impoverished suburbs offer barely a hint of commerce.

Elite universities in France began a special "entrance program" to help applicants from "impoverished suburbs."

An explosion tore through a marketplace in the city's impoverished northwest suburbs, killing dozens.