Sentence examples for roma like from inspiring English sources

Perhaps Blatter forgets that Roma, like Rome, was not built in a day.

Famous Roma like Judit Jonas, an actress, have been eager to appear.

Roma like Maria Murariu, 62, who tends to her dying husband in a foul-smelling room no bigger than a jail cell.

He said: "Roma, like all EU citizens, have the freedom to circulate freely in all member states of the EU and to live in a country other than their country of origin".

Pressed to make a living in the only way left to them after a long history of oppression, the Roma, like the "usurious" Jews, are invariably reproached for it by those who left them no alternative.

European commission spokesman Olivier Bailly said that Roma, like all EU citizens, had "the freedom to circulate freely in all member states of the EU and to live in a country other than their country of origin".

So we meet a paunchy mayoral candidate and real estate agent who calls himself Lone Wolf and goes in for buckskin and tepees (usually a German fetish); a Roma-like clan that puts on a low-rent circus; and the Drappier winemaking family, living in baronial splendor.

Ioannis Dimitrakopoulos, from the EU Agency on Fundamental Rights (FRA), which co-authored the report, says that Roma in countries like France, Italy and Spain share a common characteristic with Roma communities in Hungary, Romania and Slovakia - in that they were worse off than the majority non-Roma.

"La Roma's like the meatpacking district in New York," he said.

Soon, more than 600 Roma settlements like Ostrovany mushroomed across Slovakia, further isolating the community.

Roma Norte, like the nearby Condesa, and much of older Mexico City, is built on an old lake bed.