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the insanitary
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Of or pertaining to a lack of sanitation; unsanitary, dirty, unhealthy.
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The chief inspector of prisons, Peter Clarke, said that those who left the insanitary makeshift camps near the French port of Calais and made it through the Channel tunnel under lorries and freight trains were held in a lorry bay in Folkestone, Kent, with no clothing, food or hot drinks provided.
Ten years later, a cover by Paul Hogarth mounted the pig's head on a stake and had blood drip from its wounds – but the insanitary flies are missing, and, set on a white background as antiseptic as bathroom tiles, the gruesome totem seems to belong in the window display of a butcher's shop.
A shelter for the elderly opened initially as many of the aging population required care as well as accommodation, but the insanitary and crowded conditions in this particular shelter drove several of the occupants to return to their homes in the exclusion zone (Loughlin et al. 2002).
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In his eyes, the poverty of the Roma should elicit sympathy from the French, but the state cannot tolerate the Roma camps' insanitary and dangerous conditions on the fringes of its cities.In 2010 the public targeting of Roma camps by Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French president, ran into virulent opposition from the left.
When the Old Town, stretching from the castle down to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, became overcrowded and insanitary, the New Town was proposed, with work commencing in the 1770s.
The authors document the wealthy lifestyle of the privileged and, for contrast, quote affecting descriptions by Charles Dickens and others of the squalid and insanitary slums at the other end of town.
The awful accuracy of this nickname was underscored when we learned that Omar Khadr had been transferred to the squalid and insanitary conditions of the detention facility after only two weeks treatment in hospital.
While Australia's Human Rights Commission recently highlighted the sexual abuse of women and children in the Nauru camp, as well as the sweltering and insanitary living conditions, it was the sub-standard healthcare at Christmas Island that scandalised Dr Sanggaran.
The locals complained that the migrants were sleeping on the beach in insanitary conditions.
Instead of the muddy tents and insanitary conditions of the main camp at Calais, the refugees are housed in small wooden cabins.
The plot — an insanitary blend of hops, ram urine and human remains — follows the Wolfhouse brothers (Erik Stolhanske and Paul Soter) to Oktoberfest, where they stumble into an underground beer-guzzling contest and abject humiliation at the hands of their German cousins.
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