(1) Presently, 33% of urban city dwellers live in slums or shantytowns.
(2) Read more The eastern state of Bihar this week took the unprecedented step of forbidding any cooking between 9am and 6pm, after accidental fires exacerbated by dry, hot and windy weather swept through shantytowns and thatched-roof houses in villages and killed 79 people.
(3) Sprawling over almost 100 square miles, this shantytown had scant electricity, running water or sanitation.
(4) The price of rented accommodation is so inaccessible that many workers on modest pay are having to take up illegal and substandard rooms rented out by modern-day marchands de sommeil , or "sleep vendors" (the term originally described those who rented beds by the hour to 1950s workers in shantytowns on the outskirts of Paris).
(5) Demand for housing turned the area near the hypocentre into a shantytown of 10,000 homes that were little more than wooden shacks, with sanitary facilities shared among several households.
(6) When he was shot, King had been planning a Poor People’s Campaign – wildly unpopular even among the dwindling supporters he had at the end of his life – which was meant to unite poor whites, blacks and Latinos in a shantytown built on the Capitol Mall called “ Resurrection City ”.
(7) Graves, some with more than a hundred bodies, were dug in rural areas just outside the capital, while in the shantytown of Carrefour local authories said more than 2,000 corpses were burned.
(8) It started in the early 80s as a colonia - a shantytown built on land for which its owners could find no other use.
(9) Designer shops and luxury beachside restaurants sit cheek-by-jowl with crammed, tin-roof shantytowns strewn with rubbish and resembling Brazilian favelas.
(10) During the second half of 1986 the health and nutritional status of 254 children aged up to six years was studied, as well as the socio-economic situation of their parents in two favelas (shantytowns) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
(11) The road is in a shantytown on a hill overlooking a Coca Cola bottling plant in western Freetown, which has one of the highest rates of new Ebola cases in Sierra Leone .
(12) And against the cliffs, rocks and hills, the buildings looked so insubstantial – like a slight shift in the earth's crust and the forest would re-engulf the high-rises and shantytowns, and reclaim the land.
(13) NoViolet Bulawayo, who was born in Zimbabwe a year after it became independent and moved to the US at the age of 18, is on it for We Need New Names, which has been described a "visceral and bittersweet" portrayal of life in a Zimbabwean shantytown called Paradise.
(14) Heavy rains, which always cause flooding in this huge shantytown, also disrupted television reception.
(15) Another 54 people were wounded in the attack on the tented shantytown, said Mohammed al-Qabatis, a medic at the field hospital set up in the square.
(16) In a country scarred by huge disparities in wealth, Oiticica (who died in 1980) drew inspiration from the favelas (shantytowns) and their samba schools.
(17) This time last week Change Square – the tented shantytown in the heart of the capital – was a sanctuary for Yemen's pro-democracy dissidents.
(18) Researchers determined the antibody response to Cryptosporidium sporozoites in 6475 breast milk samples from 211 mothers of newborns living in the shantytown of San Juan de Miraflores on the outskirts of Lima, Peru to determine the association of breast milk with cryptosporidial infection rates, mean duration of infection, and age at 1st infection.
(19) in 1969 and settled down in shantytowns (villas miseria).
(20) Their substituting the district (barrio) for the shantytown points out their longing for a change in their situation.
Slum
Definition:
(n.) A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.
(n.) Same as Slimes.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week, Umande broke ground on the first of a series of toilet block biocentres in a slum in Kisumu, near Lake Victoria.
(2) Age specific prevalence rates of leprosy after examining more than 80% of population from these colonies are compared with data derived from normal slums situated elsewhere in the city.
(3) The project is divided into units which cover a community block either in a rural or tribal village area or an urban slum.
(4) In others, Delhi’s slum-dwellers were left unacknowledged.
(5) After visiting the H-blocks, the Catholic archbishop Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich compared the conditions to "the sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta".
(6) St Pancras himself, of whom precious little is known, is buried in Rome, a long way from the charred and soiled remains of the 19th-century slums of Agar Town that were demolished to make way for the Midland Railway's steamy entrance into London.
(7) Meanwhile, millions of Ugandans suffer from malnutrition, slum housing, illiteracy, preventable diseases and a lack of clean drinking water.
(8) How dare this unqualified mother of three challenge RGCB orthodoxy or attack the hypocrisy of those who condemned viable neighbourhoods as slums in order to build their own golden city from which anyone with choice escaped?
(9) I managed to raise eight grand.” Les Rencontres d'Arles 2016 review – twin towers and sub-Saharan slums Read more Soon, he was running his own independent techno label, Dead Elvis Records, and organising Deaf, an annual electronic music and arts festival in Dublin.
(10) A total of 106 rodents sera from slum Wat Phai Ton and slum Klong Toey were examined by immunofluorescent antibody assay during May to August 1990.
(11) The family lived near the Cité Soleil slum where hundreds, possibly thousands, have been stricken.
(12) There are families from Kutubdia who were once rich, with land and cows and boats, and now are living in slums and are beggars.
(13) It’s not enough at all,” said Araceli Belaez, 40, lining up for groceries at a supermarket in the Caracas slum of Catia.
(14) It was built by respecting highly restrictive norms that regulate construction activity in slums and for less than the average cost of construction in the area.
(15) The slums will be easier to shift out than the formal leaseholders, according to sources on the panel.
(16) At any rate, in 1984 the Israelis discovered an arms cache in the mosque he had built in the Jaurat slum where he now lived.
(17) Trained nutritionists visited 5 slum centers within 48 hours of the completion of the monthly weighing of the children.
(18) Point prevalence of 'High Risk' factors was assessed in 450 mothers of reproductive age group residing in two urban slum communities.
(19) A community-based family planning operations research project was undertaken in selected low income communities of Rio de Janeiro; this activity represented the 1st attempt to obtain contraceptive prevalence data in fanelos (slums) of Rio.
(20) Another member of her circle, the rapacious slum landlord Peter Rachman, had himself become a symbol of the greed and materialism of the affluent society, adding more spice to the mix.