Sentence examples for shabby construction from inspiring English sources

See articleTan Zuoren, an activist who had conducted an investigation into the role played by shabby construction in deaths from the earthquake in Sichuan province in China in 2008, was sentenced to five years in jail for "inciting subversion".

Not to mention the increasingly shabby construction of many tailored garments that are cut in large batches with a laser and literally glued together.

But I'd like to think I'm also using the molehill to examine the shabby construction of the mountain beside it.

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By a large construction site is a long, slightly shabby building, its brickwork worn with age.

LONDON — Not that it is unusual to see shabby old buildings being gutted by construction workers in a rapidly gentrifying area of east London like Hackney Road, but I felt a pang of regret when I spotted them starting work on one last week.

So his department took the initiative to sponsor an urban shed design competition to replace the 6,000 or so ubiquitous, shabby and supposedly temporary sidewalk sheds or sidewalk bridges at construction sites with a more appealing version.

The pilgrims bring money and the city is richer and safer than many in Iraq, but some 40 per cent of its people still live in poverty, their shabby clothes showing that they barely scrape a living as day labourers in construction and agriculture.

On the other hand, one participant, dressed in a shabby suit and a bright tie, was asked how he would fund a construction project, and replied, vaguely, "Don't banks do that?" Another was surprised to learn that international backers usually expect interest or profit-sharing in return for risking their money.

We drove south, past Taghazout, an endearingly shabby surfer town whose authentic charm is under threat from the staggering amount of construction work going on – seven large hotels and a golf course are planned over the next few years.

The first time I saw the designs in 2010, at a time when construction was halted, it was impossible to imagine the hotel in the scarred, shabby cityscape.