Sentence examples for makeshift communities from inspiring English sources

But the protest sit-ins occupying Yemen's major cities have brought Yemenis together in remarkable new ways, creating makeshift communities in which the old barriers of tribe, region, clan and gender are crumbling.

Their card and the sense of identity it confers allows them at least a partial entry into the mainstream of the United States, a sense of security above the underground of menial jobs and makeshift communities.

"The tent cities and makeshift communities that will grow up on the outskirts of cities, like in the developing world, will be the places to go for a proper party," he said.

"There are tent cities all over the country, and they're not going away," Ballo says of the makeshift communities built outdoors and comprised of homeless people in predominantly urban and suburban areas.

The people in the Mumbai slums have another word for it: "basti" – makeshift community.

The trailers, assembled in an expansive gravel lot, form a makeshift community the miners call Man Camp.

The masjid also serves as a makeshift community center, where any number of issues are handled: health insurance bills, unemployment problems, marital tiffs.

The image of the city he has conjured, it turns out, is one of inclusiveness, of a makeshift community bound by the challenge and pleasure of creative expression.

At the boundary, around 40th Street on the East Side, an unusual makeshift community has sprung up, one where the basic building blocks of a New York neighborhood — a pizza place, an unremarkable deli, a bank — have become an oasis.

The team also improvised telephone and videoconference systems to connect the men with their families, who had set up Camp Hope, a makeshift community at the mouth of the mine.

This year's event culminated on Labor Day; about 28,000 people participated in the ephemeral makeshift community, Black Rock City, that materializes for the annual torching of a huge wood-and-neon figure.