What's the difference between banlieue and tenement?

Banlieue


Definition:

  • (n.) The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Reuters Kepel is also convinced that one of the crucial conflicts in the banlieues is the challenge to the French republic from the "outside", by which he means both the banlieues and France's former territories in the Muslim world.
  • (2) The catalyst was a series of confrontations between immigrant youth and the police in the Parisian banlieue of Clichy-sous-Bois .
  • (3) Photograph: Andy Hall for the Observer The “banlieues” or suburbs where many such men grew up or live are often physically and culturally isolated from more wealthy, integrated neighbourhoods.
  • (4) In the regions and in the banlieues of France, however, the speech provoked anger.
  • (5) That's why the show ( Le Mur ) he has been running in Paris has been packed out every night, with a mainly male audience, often from the banlieue , who love his anti-Jewish jokes, his attacks on the French state.
  • (6) She doesn’t care about the people in the banlieues [suburbs] because they don’t vote for her.” He added: “City hall wants to change people’s habits by force, but we’re not a dictatorship.
  • (7) The challenge however is not to reshape Paris, but rather to extend its inherent beauty to its outskirts, les banlieues – a web of small villages, some terribly grand and chic (Neuilly, Versailles, Saint Mandé, Vincennes, Saint Germain-en-Laye), others modest and provincial-looking (Montreuil, Pantin, Malakoff, Montrouge, Saint Gervais) and others still, socially ravaged and architecturally dehumanised (La Courneuve, Clichy-sous-bois).
  • (8) In July, Sarcelles, a modest suburb, or banlieue, outside Paris, became notorious when footage of young men taking part in violent anti-Jewish rioting was broadcast across the globe in response to the Israeli attacks on Gaza.
  • (9) This is what is happening in the banlieue – cut off from and humiliated by the perceived French establishment.
  • (10) The fourth of eight children raised in the banlieue by Senegalese Mauritian parents, the 35-year-old is France's darling: as well as winning best actor at the 2011 Césars, he was voted the nation's most popular person in a poll for Le Journal du Dimanche.
  • (11) That same night, 15 cars were torched in Clichy-sous-Bois, a classic French banlieue of rundown postwar high-rises that are home to 30,000 people, overwhelmingly second and third-generation immigrants whose parents arrived in France as cheap migrant labour from north Africa.
  • (12) England, advancing on Ireland, glows like the embers left after a bonfire , or a black dress scattered with shreds of gold leaf; Milan announces itself with starbursts of gold on dark velvet , while Cairo, fed by the glittering ribbon of the Nile (Egypt being the natural equivalent to California's graphic illiustration of our dependence on water), favours white light; central Paris declares its exclusivity , the périphérique hugging the centre tight, keeping it safe from the banlieues .
  • (13) Rioters in the troubled banlieue of Aulnay-sous-Bois, November 2005.
  • (14) You can see this most clearly in the cheap, modernist architecture of the banlieues , the rotten suburbs outside most French towns and cities where alienation and violence are rife.
  • (15) The peripheral road forms both a real and perceived barrier between the banlieues – the outer estates – and the opportunities of the city.
  • (16) The rioters at the Gare du Nord or in the banlieues also often describe themselves as soldiers in a "long war' against France and Europe .
  • (17) For all their modernity, these urban spaces are designed almost like vast prison camps.The banlieue is the most literal representation of "otherness" – the otherness of exclusion, of the repressed, of the fearful and despised – all kept physically and culturally away from the mainstream of French "civilisation".
  • (18) In November 2005, 18 months before the riot in the Gare du Nord, the tensions in the banlieues had already spilled over into violence and, for one spectacular moment, threatened to bring down the French government.
  • (19) Not all the local authorities are as wealthy and glamorous as Saint-Tropez; among those with structured loans is the French department of Seine-Saint-Denis, north-east of Paris, which has the highest proportion of immigrants in France and is home to some of the troubled banlieues , or housing estates, where rioting broke out in 2005.
  • (20) The two streets where the weekend raids took place are anything but ghettoes or banlieues , home to restless and hostile throngs of Muslim youths.

Tenement


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
  • (n.) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements.
  • (n.) A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.
  • (n.) Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The favours Icac found that Macdonald bestowed on his friend included inside knowledge of the granting of the mining tenement of Mount Penny and the expression-of-interest process for mining exploration licences in the area.
  • (2) They brought up Adelson and his three siblings in a tenement in a tough neighbourhood of the town of Dorchester.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) "Gnnmph, I can't 'ave it 'ere, I 'aven't 'ad my enema," wails a labouring housewife, straining fruitlessly on a communal tenement bog as horrified neighbours look on in their rollers.
  • (5) When New York's population more than tripled between 1850 and 1900, the city responded by building dense and (by the period's standards) high, constructing cheap tenements within the city's heart.
  • (6) "One of the things that is really wonderful about Limelight is that it shows Chaplin returning to the London of his youth: the tenements and music halls that he knew.
  • (7) Some people like it, some don't Or maybe @curlyadamb has it down pat: Italians cooking pizzas in frying pans in their tenement ovens after leaving the old country...
  • (8) But so often, open worlds are built from architectural filler – bland unending landscapes and cardboard box tenements.
  • (9) Kathmandu, a city of 3 million, has expanded exponentially in recent years, with acre after acre of farmland covered by poor-quality cement tenements.
  • (10) The old tenements have been sandblasted, students are moving in, attracted by cheaper accommodation, and some private houses have been added to the mix.
  • (11) In those accounts – for the financial year ending March 2014 and filed to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission – Adani Mining describes its principle activity as “the exploration and evaluation of coal mining tenements [permits] in Queensland Australia ... to identify commercially exploitable mineral reserves and resources for development and extraction”.
  • (12) Beyond lies Kamrangir Char, a vast slum where clouds of acrid smoke from burning rubbish hide tenements packed with thin men, anxious women and grubby children with tubercular coughs.
  • (13) Above Houlihans the chemist is a pink sandstone tenement where nearly every flat has its windows boarded with steel shutters and greying sun-bleached chipboard sheets.
  • (14) She is a former social worker who was brought up by a single parent in a tenement in Edinburgh.
  • (15) The colossal complex sits near the centre of the small town, as large as several office blocks placed end to end, its white and yellow steel edifice dwarfing the sandstone tenements of Barrow Island.
  • (16) Workers and their families were packed densely into unsanitary tenements.
  • (17) Clearly people can live like that, but frankly I thought that overcrowded tenements were something that Britain had left behind.
  • (18) Trucks still rumble down the potholed road through the town but the last workers have long gone home, walking past the furled awnings of the market stalls, over the single footbridge, along the battered pavements, to the tenement apartments, the squalid huts, the tin-roofed homes by the fetid pond.
  • (19) The rapidly expanding city of the 1920s housed its working classes either in these small rooftop rooms ( cuartos de azotea ), or in the more well-known vecindades , Mexico’s version of tenement buildings.
  • (20) When asked if he still stood to make a "bucket load of money" from the Mount Penny mining tenement, Obeid replied: "That's my family's entitlement.

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