Sentence examples for residents approaching from inspiring English sources

The unavoidable consequence of this, Green says, is that self-funding care home residents – approaching one in two of the total – are being charged significantly higher fees to cross-subsidise those on council rates.

With some residents approaching two weeks stranded in their homes, and with emergency rations able to reach parts of the back country only by horse, boat and helicopter, Pine Ridge remains in a state of shock and triage.

Longtime Houston residents approach storms with respectful acceptance, preparing and "hunkering down". We know the drill.

As the residents approached the station house, a squad car roared up and the crowd melted away.

It is a sensitive subject for those living in Neo Bankside: all the residents approached by the Guardian spoke only on condition of anonymity.

So some residents approached their priest, the Rev. Albert D. Audette Jr., pastor of St. Marguerite Bourgeoys Roman Catholic Church in Brookfield.

In the northern areas, around the Nawa district, several residents approached Marines with information about where roadside bombs had been planted.

But as government minders directed journalists to the house and the grave, several residents approached foreign correspondents to tell them surreptitiously of their hatred of Colonel Qaddafi.

But several residents approached a reporter quietly to say that support for Mr. Ivanishvili was higher than it appeared, except people were afraid to say so publicly.

On an organized stroll through the old city with Qaddafi government minders, several Tripoli residents approached foreign journalists to offer their disdain or impatience with the Qaddafi government.

Like many of the party's older guests, she was something of a celebrity; three generations of project residents approached her with pecks on the cheek and greetings of "Hello, Sister McNair".