Sentence examples for residents standing from inspiring English sources

They were chased through the neighborhood, caught and severely beaten as residents standing on their balconies pleaded with security forces to show them mercy.

With the smell of smoke heavy in the air, the president stopped along the way to commiserate with residents standing among the ashes of their houses.

A video uploaded to YouTube, which was said to be from Albokamal, showed residents standing on two tanks and an armored personnel carrier and chanting, "The people and the army are one hand".

Yet the ideal of American citizenship lived larger through the Charleston residents standing on this street with South Carolina's summer humidity and those who comforted them with water.

Footage of residents standing in front of a pile of canisters suggested that "limited" might not have been the right word. .

SAN FRANCISCO — It's becoming a familiar scene in everybody's favorite city — luxury shuttles with Wi-Fi and plush seats barreling past sluggish, dilapidated city buses crammed with local residents standing elbow to elbow.

Indeed, it is hard to believe that a white resident, standing in his own vestibule, would have been gunned down under similar circumstances by the four white officers.

"You can blow up an airfield here and it doesn't matter," said one resident, standing beside an eight-foot-deep hole that soldiers had blown in a runway near the Cinaruco River, the plains stretching out for miles.

"They're building all this housing and not giving one thought to solving any of our problems," said Lord El-Allah, 34, an Edgemere resident standing outside the Edgemere Houses, where the Housing Authority has done extensive renovations in recent years.

To the south, a resident standing in what will be a bathroom with his-and-hers showers and toilets will look out on the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center complex and the Statue of Liberty, not to mention the electronic billboards in Times Square.

"We've got to write this one down," said Kate Allyn, a 40-year resident, standing at the top of Phinney Ridge, a neighborhood in north Seattle that, like many others in this hilly city, became a miniature mountain playground over the weekend.