Sentence examples for poor settlements from inspiring English sources

How long can they live in the poor settlements like in Slovakia?

In poor settlements east of the city, foreigners were burnt alive, as some residents watched and laughed.

In the early days, "we would go to poor settlements, take a projector and show films to the working people," she said.

In his second phone call, which he laced with Spanish phrases, Mr. Gore turned his attention to the "colonias," the poor settlements along the Texas border.

That's logical from the point of view of global production and also from Uruguay's point of view.The Economist: Every day on your way from here to your office you pass very poor settlements.

The manhunters used every trick they could think of, scanning the remote villages along the Bosnia-Montenegro border for signs of unusual activity – internet logons in the middle of the night, TV satellite dishes in otherwise poor settlements, newspaper subscriptions.

Mr Johns's own crusade began five years ago when, he contends, he received a poor settlement for a mis-sold product.Northwestern contends that the site is a hunting-ground for lawyers seeking clients.

Astronomers are still fuming at the way the STFC, the UK's key public funding body for physics, has handled its funding deficit, which is the result of a poor settlement in last year's spending review.

During a visit to Tolstoy-Yurt, a poor settlement north of Grozny, Chechen students asked for his help in transferring to Russian universities because none are functioning in Chechnya.

Richard Humphries, the assistant directorof health and social care thinktank The King's Fund, said the measures to address social care funding shortfalls were "a thoughtful attempt to make the best of a poor settlement" but did not address soaring demand for social care services.

Anne Aina is a mother of two and lives in Morata, a poor settlement in the capital.