Sentence examples for makeshift study from inspiring English sources

Denied the keys to government transition offices, Mr. Cheney is working from a makeshift study off the kitchen in his town house in McLean, Va., contacting prospective cabinet members, hunting for rental offices and sketching a legislative agenda for a Bush administration.

Now, he spent most of his time in a makeshift study above the garage, searching hour after hour.

Last year's closures left more than 100,000 workers jobless; the government now pays them to stay at home or to study in makeshift schools.

For generations of law school graduates, summer has often been an illusory concept, one replaced by long days spent in airless study halls or makeshift classrooms practicing mind-numbing rote memorization in preparation for the high-stakes bar exam in late July, a time when most of their friends are enjoying backyard barbecues or lazy afternoons at the beach.

Students in Yumoto High School, Fukushima, now study in a makeshift school building as their original building was severely damaged by the earthquake last year.

In "earth skills" courses, students stay in makeshift shelters at a camp and study skills like plant identification and pottery making.

So WPI has set up a makeshift tent on its campus to study the safety clothing workers have to wear to avoid the disease.

Using WiFi units in disaster areas, establishing makeshift broadband networks has also been studied.

They studied in a nearby makeshift enclosure of donated tarps and plastic sheeting.

Children either study in open spaces or makeshift classrooms, and many of them drop out, often because schools are too remote or because they lack separate toilets for girls.

Volunteer clowns roam the dusty roads blowing plastic horns and entertaining miners' children, who study during the week in a makeshift classroom.