(1) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(2) His senior role in the Popalzai tribe and his chairmanship since 2005 of Kandahar provincial council bolstered his reputation as an Asian version of a mafia don.
(3) Asian teenagers had a 50% marker rate and a 27.2% rate for persistent antigenemia.
(4) Asian macaques are susceptible to fatal simian AIDS from a type D retrovirus, indigenous in macaques, and from a lentivirus, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is indigenous to healthy African monkeys.
(5) The BBC has reversed its decision to close the Asian Network digital radio station – but will look to cut its budget in half.
(6) Bangkok Centre serves the Asian countries on the Global Programme on Prevention of Hearing Impairment and Deafness.
(7) More than a million white women between the ages of 50 and 64 were recruited between 1996 and 2001, alongside nearly 6,000 south Asian women and almost 5,000 black women.
(8) I categorically never said that ‘Britain has so many paedophiles because it has so many Asian men’.” She added that it was “totally untrue” that she had threatened to “take this inquiry down with me”, and absolutely rejected being rude and abusive to junior staff.
(9) Where UV radiation is restricted, individual propensity to rickets within a given Asian community is mainly determined by dietary factors.
(10) The summary adjusted relative risk for a Down syndrome livebirth for all those of North African or Asian origin, compared to those for women of European origin, was about 1.56.
(11) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
(12) Now, 42 years later, he lives in the same flat in Portland Place, central London, though he is richer by £1bn, a peer in the House of Lords, and this week received a lifetime achievement gong at the Asian Business Awards.
(13) Omeprazole 40 mg therefore was found to produce rapid healing and symptom relief in Asian patients with H2-antagonist-resistant peptic ulcers.
(14) This was also true of the Asian population (Trafford dmft = 4.49.
(15) But many inside these Asian nations are wary of efforts to make emerging economies break ranks.
(16) Last night, the trouble spread to the mainly Asian suburb of Manningham, an area of sprawling and deprived terraced housing estates.
(17) I gave her my personal opinion, which was that there would be no problem for her, but I was not able to give her the guarantee that I think she was entitled to deserve.” The peer reminded the House of Lords about the shock in Britain when Idi Amin expelled the Asians from Uganda.
(18) The actuarial survival at 2 years after grafting of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians was compared with that of Caucasians transplanted between 1971 and 1985 for aplastic anaemia, acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
(19) Last week he argued that properly primed immigrants will "see off the racists" - as if once blacks and Asians could conjugate their verbs properly and learn the date of the Battle of Agincourt, then racists would refrain from attacking them.
(20) This article reports how the Staying Healthy After Fifty Program, designed for the general United States population, was introduced into the State of Hawaii, how it was adapted for use with two Asian-American groups, the Japanese and Filipinos, and on the benefits reported by participants.
Squatter
Definition:
(n.) One who squats; specifically, one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title. In the United States and Australia the term is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring title.
(n.) See Squat snipe, under Squat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Households in two squatter communities--Meiyo and Karton Kassala--were studied by observation and by interview.
(2) At least two successive Kenyan governments have threatened the Sengwer communities and forest squatters with evictions.
(3) The tower was first occupied by squatters in 2007, and eventually became home to more than 1,200 families .
(4) This study is part of a larger epidemiological study concerned with the health status of children under the age of five carried out in the squatter settlement of Rocinha, and focuses on the nutritional profile of a representative sample of 591 children.
(5) It was, I recall, an anarchic traffic jam of ex-squatters, ravers, and proponents of free love that chuntered slowly and messily through the byways and sometimes the highways of Thatcher’s Britain.
(6) The ventilatory capacity of the more active children, including those who have lived all their lives in squatter huts on the hillsides, is on average 8 per cent larger than for the inactive children including those who have lived all their lives in tenement flats with lifts.
(7) Who else would have decided to leave the relative cosiness of Ditchling Village for Hopkins Crank, an unreconstructed Georgian squatter's cottage and outbuildings on Ditchling Common?
(8) He promised a crackdown on squatters, a mandatory six-month jail sentence for anyone threatening with a knife, and a promise to allow homeowners and shopowners to use reasonable force to protect their properties.
(9) More than 20 homeless people have been sheltering there since the squatters moved into the property in Belgravia on 23 January .
(10) A judge has ordered the eviction of a group of squatters from a £15m property in central London bought by a Russian oligarch that they have been occupying for the past week.
(11) Ruling the registrar had made "an error of law", the judge said section 144 did not apply to squatter's title because it was enacted to deal with householders who needed rapid police help to get rid of squatters who had moved into their homes whilst they were away.
(12) Local authorities took what we thought were vicious steps to repel squatters, putting cement down toilets or ripping them out altogether, but if you could access a property it became possible to do a deal with the council and become a licensed squat, permitted to stay there, often for years.
(13) Those properties being targeted have fallen into major disrepair and, in many cases, have been occupied by squatters and attracted antisocial behaviour such as loud parties and drug abuse.
(14) Squatters inside the building, a former police station in Beak Street, off Regent Street, accused police of heavy-handed tactics after they were led out by officers who forced their way in after a tense standoff lasting more than three hours.
(15) This study explores the extent of mild to significant malnutrition in the squatter settlement of Kampung Baiduri located adjacent to an industrial area in Petaling Jaya.
(16) If you are in this position, your rights also supersede what are commonly known as "squatters' rights".
(17) The preschool component provides education, food supplements, and medical checkups and treatment to children in the squatter settlements.
(18) The result has been that more than 1,000 people living near the town of Eldoret have been classed as squatters and forced to flee what they say has been government harassment, intimidation and arrest.
(19) If it is a property that is occupied, or soon to be occupied, then the criminal law will apply and the squatters can be guilty of an offence under Section 7 of the Criminal Law Act if they fail to leave your premises after being asked to do so.
(20) An anthropometric study evaluated the nutritional state of pre-school children in the Site C squatter area of Khayelitsha township in Cape Town.