Sentence examples for communal dormitories from inspiring English sources

The government has not agreed to the strikers' demands -- chiefly, to allow political prisoners to live in large communal dormitories, as they once did.

This reduces the risk of theft for migrants, especially for those like Xu Hanping and Gao Jianjun living in communal dormitories, and adds collateral to the working relationship for the laoban.

It refers both to a physical space – communal dormitory, common room and washroom – and the 100-120 woccupyingpyitg it.

For the communal dormitory where the monks sleep in open cubicles, Mr. Pawson needed to design special glass tops for the handful of monks whose snores keep the others awake.

It is likely that during Warelwast's episcopate the canons of the cathedral chapter quit living in a communal dormitory.

A prominent village institution is the morung (a communal house or dormitory for young unmarried men), where skulls and other trophies of war formerly were hung.

Workers live in crowded dormitories with communal bathrooms that lack hot water in winter or fans in summer.

They include turning single cells into double cells, using television rooms and other communal spaces as emergency dormitories, putting healthy women prisoners in empty beds in hospital wings, and harmless petty offenders in maximum security jails.

communal living; communalism".  .

The East range contained the abbey's chapterhouse; a small room which is presumed to be either a library or a sacristry; a second larger undercroft, again used for storage; a corridor, known as the Slype, leading to the graveyard; and on the first floor were the canon's dormitory and reredorter (communal latrine).

Households were excluded if they had <2 participating members or if the living unit was a dormitory or other communal residential arrangement.