Sentence examples for run-down communities from inspiring English sources

It was a protest about dead-end jobs, and about run-down communities being lorded over by London, talked down to and bossed around.

Working with residents in run-down communities to refurbish their homes, victims of regeneration schemes, the exhibit on show has examples of the work they undertook in Liverpool's Toxteth area, with tiles, wobbly basins, granite fireplaces and printed fabrics taking pride of place in the installation.

Rather, its genesis was an anecdote heard one evening over dinner with his 33-year-old daughter, Tiffany, and her husband, Dominique Sampiero, a poet who had spent 15 years teaching in public schools in run-down communities in the north of the country.

Clyde Gateway is one of six urban regeneration firms in Scotland charged with delivering "focused, integrated strategies" to turn around run-down communities.

Location B, established 20 years ago, is a run-down community.

Run-down community garden comes up roses Jump to media player Volunteers spent a week transforming a neglected field into a community garden in Wolverhampton.

In what he intends to be a trilogy of movies set in ports, the Finnish moviemaker Aki Kaurismäki turns his affectionate, whimsical eye on the impoverished but generous folk of a run-down, waterfront community in the Normandy port of Le Havre.

In Shoreditch — a once run-down working-class community in East London — house prices now regularly top more than $1 million, roughly a 50percentt increase over the last decade.

Fitchett's memorial would be the first of thousands held in the run-down lobbies and community rooms of the Tenderloin's residential hotels and officiated by the tiny minister with the bright blue eyes and the Georgia drawl.

The chapel, on the edge of the village of Martletwy, closed in the early 80s and had become rather run-down until the local community restored it with the aid of lottery money 10 years ago.

I was reading a magazine called Malibu Times last weekend, don't ask me why, and the smallest, most run-down cottage in that community is going for $4 million and a lot of places are $15 million and up.