Sentence examples for inhabitants when from inspiring English sources

Why blame its desperate inhabitants when the authorities had built an airport runway and much of the swanky new business district of the Bandra Kurla complex over it?

The atoll receives little rainfall, which may explain the absence of inhabitants when it was first sighted (1568) by the Spanish explorer Álvaro de Mendaña.

Large vertical barracks -- the type that crush their inhabitants when they fall -- have been avoided, say people who have been on the base.

Wittenberg, where he lived for the remainder of his life, was bigger — with two thousand inhabitants when he settled there — but not much better.

The island was abandoned by its inhabitants when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, and Iraqi forces placed mines thickly on it during their occupation.

Trieste was a town of 5,700 inhabitants when it was proclaimed an imperial free port by Charles VI in 1719, and its population had reached 156,000 when it was deprived of the privilege in 1891.

But you can't obliterate a place as easily as its inhabitants, especially when the place itself inhabits our very consciousness.

It's a tactic familiar to schoolyard inhabitants everywhere: when all else fails, reach for the nearest insult and throw it around indiscriminately.

In 1909 his men, waging a jihad against local tribesmen who had accepted British rule, slaughtered a third of the territory's inhabitants.When the War Office balked at repeating the effort yet again, the war minister, Winston Churchill, proposed to have the RAF do it.

Before photographing Sagamore Hill, he said as he showed a visitor around the exhibition, he read about its inhabitants, "so when I went into these rooms, I had a sense of who these people were".

The liveliness of a city is reflected in the activities of its inhabitants: how, when and where they move around in it.