Sentence examples for slum from inspiring English sources

When Davis asked him about exploitative bosses and slum landlords, Cameron claimed to be infuriated.

In the text category, Taylor Auerbach of the Daily Telegraph has been nominated for his reports on slum landlords and Amnesty international, and Guardian Australia's own Michael Safi has been recognised for his reporting on terror and asylum seekers.

Phiona Mutesi happened upon chess as a nine-year-old in the sprawling and impoverished Katwe slum of the Ugandan capital, Kampala.

Krishnaraj Rao, a lawyer and activist, initiated a programme with slum children a decade ago, painting lines on the roads to mark where pedestrians could walk in safety.

"If you live in a slum in Nairobi, seeing development money pouring into a luxury block of flats is an insult".

A force of 12,000 policemen stormed the colony and evacuated the 70,000 residents overnight to a swampy area four kilometres away (that turned into another, still extant, slum called Cheetah Camp).

Mary Barbour was a working-class mother of two from a Govan slum who led the Glasgow rent strikes of 1915 that brought about social change across Britain.

SDI today spans 33 countries where 90% of the world's slum population of 800 million people live.

But beyond the practicality of missing documents, their greatest hurdle is the perception that what is born in a slum is destined to stay in a slum.

The number of slum-dwellers reached 863 million in 2014 – an increase of more than 200m since 1990.

Hundreds of workers were moved from slum-like camps to the TDIC's Saadiyat Accommodation Village, which has cricket grounds, a library and a coffee shop, following publication of the report and the Observer's investigation.