Sentence examples for scattered lives from inspiring English sources

Unlike his thuggish colleagues, who help themselves to anything of value, he takes only photographs, "to document the last, lingering traces of those scattered lives in order to prove that the vanished families were once here".

Gerry Simpson, a senior researcher and advocate for the refugee programme, said such tactics were used three years ago when the Kenyan government decided to move refugees from scattered lives in cities into camps.

But finally, just beyond the freeway, strip malls gave way to cow pastures, and seven miles down a country road, with the hubbub of our scattered lives some 300 miles behind us, we reached the shingled gatehouse to Barnsley Gardens.

Dos Passos followed the scattered lives of a dozen or more fictional characters, interspersing their stories with short biographies of real historic figures, stream-of-consciousness passages and "newsreels" — collages of modern headlines and song lyrics to evoke the spirit of the times.

True, there have been scattered live appearances over the past two years, but this three-song, live, globally televised performance was the real return of Axl Rose to the big ring of fame.

His children are scattered, living with their aunt and family friends in Houston while their father sits in detention.

Much smaller, scattered groups live in Benin and northern Togo.

They surmised that sturgeon leap to help provide group cohesion among scattered individuals living in a dark and turbid environment.

Defeated in a war with the Sauk and Fox in 1798, the remnants of the Missouri scattered to live with the Osage, the Kansa, and the Oto.

Louis J. Freeh, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other senior law enforcement officials have warned of possible injuries, and even casualties, as federal agents try to remove protesters from a range scattered with live ammunition.

During the 10th century castles were built everywhere in southern Italy, just as in the Po plain; in the south (including the papal territories and the march of Spoleto), however, their social effect was in many areas more considerable than in the north, because the scattered population living in the territory of a castle tended to move, or be moved, inside its walls.