(n.) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: “Almost daily we hear from parents desperate to escape the single cramped room of a B&B or hostel that they find themselves struggling to raise their children in.
(2) Moontain Hostel is a new pad for skiers on a budget, with dorm beds from just €20 and private rooms from €60.
(3) Newham council said some of the women in the hostel might qualify for the 15 units it makes available each year for hostel leavers.
(4) At the end of your journey is the Idwal Cottage youth hostel, and Cwm Idwal nature reserve.
(5) Under a partnership that dates back at least a decade, the Greater Manchester West NHS trust posts two community psychiatric nurses (CPNs), plus a support worker, at the probation service-run hostel.
(6) Staff from Hostel B displayed higher levels of EE, and were more critical, and these attitudes generalised easily into hostility and rejection.
(7) Tomlinson had been an alcoholic for some years and was living in a homeless hostel.
(8) Tweedle added that the ban has meant that it was now less common in hostels, but peoplewere still getting hold of it.
(9) The mothers and mothers-to-be – all under 25, many of them teenagers – have been served with eviction notices by the housing association that runs the hostel.
(10) Hostels are having to care for long term severely affected psychiatric patients discharged into the community.
(11) We recommend the development of a peripatetic service as outlined in this study, offering health care at hostels, day centres and other places where the homeless are to be found.
(12) We hear a lot about homes, and rightly so, yet we hear next to nothing about homelessness, about the people forced to sleep on the streets, in hostels and squats or on the sofas of friends and family.
(13) It’s operated by a young, talented photographer called Bheki Dube and his influence is everywhere – the hostel decor is fantastic – think industrial-chic warehouse apartment with lots of quirky touches.
(14) 73 Kloof Street, +27 21 424 6169, onceincapetown.co.za The Backpack Facebook Twitter Pinterest Founder-owners Toni Shina and Lee Harris have created a homely hostel spread across four adjoining houses with cool courtyards and flowery gardens, a chillout lounge, communal kitchen, health-food cafe and terrace bar.
(15) Data were gathered from 175 residents of 150 living units--mental handicap hospital wards, voluntary and private homes, local authority hostels and parental homes.
(16) The aim was to test the assumption that mass miniature x ray screening of the single homeless (hostel residents) is a cost-effective means of controlling pulmonary tuberculosis.
(17) She was just 17 and she had moved to a hostel in Victoria.
(18) About two thirds of the total time in the two institutions was spent in the hostel.
(19) A decision for hostel care instead of home care was associated with a low level of informal support and the absence of a carer who was a spouse or daughter.
(20) The friend's walls were covered in cheap porn, and every person I speak to in the hostel has ferocious love-bites on their necks.
Refuge
Definition:
(n.) Shelter or protection from danger or distress.
(n.) That which shelters or protects from danger, or from distress or calamity; a stronghold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; a place inaccessible to an enemy.
(n.) An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance.
(v. t.) To shelter; to protect.
Example Sentences:
(1) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
(2) But even before the reforms, half of the women coming to refuges were being turned away, so beds were already scarce.
(3) The guardians of that last refuge must strike back.
(4) At least 10,000 civilians took refuge in UN compounds in the capital, said one UN official who asked not to be named.
(5) Eventually, when the noise died down, the pair made a dash for it, taking refuge in a nearby restaurant for the rest of the night.
(6) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
(7) Tijuana, Mexico, has become a refuge for cancer patients who have been convinced that they may be cured of their terminal illness by unconventional, unproved, and disproved methods offered in the border clinics.
(8) Once again, there was no evidence of any law enforcement presence on or near the refuge.
(9) Of the 11 people in custody, five were arrested while driving on a remote highway on Tuesday afternoon , three were arrested in separate incidents outside the refuge that evening, and three more subsequently turned themselves in at FBI checkpoints just outside the refuge.
(10) Of UK respondents: 84% agreed that “people should be able to take refuge in other countries to escape war or persecution”.
(11) Tuesday’s arrests on a remote highway outside the wildlife refuge, which activists have occupied since 2 January, had left the remaining protesters leader-less and debating whether to continue the occupation or retreat .
(12) It’s walkable to the trailhead for the Hielo Azul glacier, and a network of mountain refuges, all with camping ( trekelbolson.com ).
(13) So off he toddled with his bindle-stick to play at running away, taking refuge at Sally's house.
(14) There is only one specialist refuge in the UK for women with learning disabilities who have suffered domestic violence and, until now, little research into this hidden problem.
(15) On the second day of its armed occupation of the Malheur national wildlife refuge , the Bundy militia shifted tactics.
(16) When people have gone into refuges they have been there for quite a long time, and that is not desirable because they can become institutionalised."
(17) So long as tyrants and terrorists chase innocents around the globe, we must offer them refuge.
(18) Grasty, an administrative judge, proposed making Bundy and his associates pay the expenses at a community meeting on Monday night in Burns, the closest town to the ongoing occupation of the Malheur national wildlife refuge .
(19) Even more pointedly, he attacked the common Republican philosophical refuge of the doctrine of unintended consequences, or, as he put it, “We can’t do anything because we don’t yet know everything.” “The bullshitters have gotten pretty lazy,” he said, and the previous six hours of debate coverage on Fox News could have told you as much.
(20) And he must not pretend to be ignorant of the consequences of continuing to burn coal or take refuge in a "carbon cap" or some "target" for future emission reductions.