Sentence examples for makeshift settlement from inspiring English sources

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Now the family sleeps on bare ground in Charahi Qambar, a sprawling makeshift settlement along a main highway.

Tonight, dozens of bloodstained blankets and mattresses, a charred, flat-bed truck and the scent of corpses were all that was left of the makeshift settlement.

This week in a makeshift settlement close to Randfontein, west of Johannesburg, police moved in to disperse residents who had barricaded roads with burning tyres in protest at the lack of running water, electricity, and sanitation.

Then, with $100 stipends given to his and the other families by the United Nations refugee office, Nazar and his relatives boarded a truck and three days later found themselves at this makeshift settlement.

Residents at the informal refugee camps at Calais say they will peacefully resist attempts to bulldoze parts of their makeshift settlement, after French police gave about a third of them until Thursday to leave.

Not long after the Pilgrims set anchor in the harbor they called Plymouth in 1620, the Wampanoag leader Massasoit paid them a visit near their makeshift settlement and made a wary offer of friendship.

After approaching a makeshift settlement in the hope of finding fresh water, Eli is captured by the avaricious Carnegie (Gary Oldman), the rickety old town's self-appointed leader, who attempts to take the book, which he believes will give him great power.

Photograph: Fotosearch/Getty On April 20 , 1914 members of the Colorado National Guard opened fire on a group of armed coal miners and set fire to a makeshift settlement in Ludlow, Colorado, where more than a thousand striking workers and their families were camped out.

By Ben Mauk April 18 , 2014On April 20 , 1914 members of the Colorado National Guard opened fire on a group of armed coal miners and set fire to a makeshift settlement in Ludlow, Colorado, where more than a thousand striking workers and their families were camped out.

Located on the outskirts of town, the makeshift settlement is close to the Jules-Ferry migrant drop-in center, a government-run facility that opened in January 2015.

An estimated 9,500 people who have been displaced by the earthquake are living in the makeshift settlement.

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