Sentence examples for encampments about from inspiring English sources

Many hundreds more are sleeping rough in other small unofficial encampments, about 200 of them teenagers, without any form of shelter apart from a donated sleeping bag.

Ever since police forces around the country started evicting protestors from their encampments about two months after the tents first went up, people in the movement have found themselves responding to a discouraging refrain: "Is Occupy still going on?" This weekend's protests should leave little doubt that it is, if nothing else.

As Ms. Albright was being received lavishly by Crown Prince Abdullah at a desert encampment about 60 miles from Riyadh, where winter rains have covered the sand in green clover and small yellow flowers, the Russians were announcing a deal with Iraq to allow weapons inspections of eight presidential sites, but with unclear conditions.

("The Encampment" cost about $150,000 ,financed mostly by him, Ms. McCowan and donations).

India sent a contingent of soldiers to set up an encampment about 300 yards from the Chinese.

An older daughter... also escaped and tried to reach a British encampment about two miles away, in order to alert the troops, but in her confusion and fright she lost her way and wandered off in the wrong direction.

Blount was preparing her bed in the seaside encampment about the time the bars closed, and she said she heard Sinnathamby shout at a homeless man near the boardwalk.

Soleimani's encampment, about 25 miles from Abid, was a collection of six tents, occupied by his relatives and their families, in a hilly region where herds of goats and sheep grazed.

In the hours before Congress and the White House came to an agreement on a budget deal, hundreds of bewildered Confederate and Union re-enactors milled about in parking lots and makeshift encampments, grumbling about the potential shutdown and what was shaping up as a historically inaccurate re-enactment of the bombardment of Fort Sumter.

Correction: July 4, 2003, Friday An article on June 14 about an American strike on an encampment of about 60 young men near the Syrian border misstated the camp location given by an American military official on the day after the strike -- information that turned out to be in error.

My Sunday column argues that the Occupy movement's success isn't about encampments at bits of real estate around the country, but about putting the issue of income inequality on the national agenda.