Sentence examples similar to block dwellings from inspiring English sources
SARAH KERSHAW A Teacher's Rounds April 9 began for Hamza al-Zamily as it has for the past 12 years, with an 8 a.m. delivery of fresh fruit, vegetables and poultry to his cinder block dwelling: Square 13, Cell H, House 9, inside the sprawling Rafha refugee camp near the Saudi-Iraqi border.
In trailers and cinder-block dwellings on the Navajo reservation, there is deep cynicism and apprehension about the federal effort.
Some are housed 10 and more to a room in 250 drafty cinder-block dwellings with no windows or doors.
Today, residents were still digging through the crushed remains of dozens of cinder-block dwellings in a sweep that left hundreds of people homeless and was the biggest such demolition operation in the 15 months of the uprising.
The commonly found wood and concrete-block dwellings are usually built on stilts above the flood-prone land and are connected by footbridges to the streets, which are built over the drainage and irrigation canals.
Hours later in the same Jerusalem suburb of Silwan, whose breeze-block dwellings cling to steep hillsides just beneath the Old City, the Abu Subeih and Burqan families were also brusquely evicted.
A concrete walkway led past small cinder-block dwellings to an enormous tin-roofed pavilion propped up by plywood poles at the back of the lot.
Mak Muji's cinder-block home stands out among neighbors' dwellings of bamboo, braided plant fibers and plastic covered by corrugated metal or waterproof items hauled in from the dump to protect against monsoon rains.
This work presents an energy and economic analysis to assess the profitability of energy rehabilitation operations in the envelope of a block of residential dwellings in Southern Spain.
