(n.) That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.
(n.) One who protects; a guardian; a defender.
(n.) The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.
(v. t.) To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect.
(v. t.) To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.
(v. t.) To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively.
(v. i.) To take shelter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(2) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
(3) Housing charity Shelter puts the shortage of affordable housing in England at between 40,000 and 60,000 homes a year.
(4) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
(6) The proposed new law gives victims of violence access to redress and protection, including restraining orders, and it requires local governments to set up more shelters.
(7) Others seek shelter wherever they can – on rented farmland, and in empty houses and disused garages.
(8) Around a third of Gaza's 1.8 million people have been displaced, many now living in United Nations shelters.
(9) Millions have been driven out of their homes, seeking shelter in neighbouring countries and in safer parts of their homeland.
(10) The UK donated £114m which funded shelter for 1.3 million people and clean water for 2.5 million.
(11) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(12) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
(13) For services to Elderly People through the Minnie Bennett Sheltered Accommodation Home for the Elderly in Greenwich South East London.
(14) An unwanted pregnancy is one more nightmare for a displaced woman; campaigners argue that contraception and access to safe abortion should be treated with the same urgency as water, food and shelter.
(15) She is just one of many people who have contacted Shelter about cuts to SMI payments.
(16) After leaving the RCA, the pair continued to work on the idea of shelters that could be dropped into disaster zones or areas of military conflict and swiftly assembled.
(17) The discrimination in the policy of successive South African governments towards African workers is demonstrated by the so-called 'civilised labour policy' under which sheltered, unskilled government jobs are found for those white workers who cannot make the grade in industry, at wages which far exceed the earnings of the average African employee in industry.
(18) The quality of the re-insertion also depends on the care possibilities available to the patient: sectorial follow-up, job-aid centre, sheltered workshops, associative apartments, leisure.
(19) Nico Stevens from Help Refugees said at least 150 people had so far lost their shelters, but many of those had remained in the camp, sleeping in tents or communal buildings.
(20) The only way for the government to turn this crisis around is to urgently invest in genuinely affordable homes Campbell Robb, Shelter The Land Registry – whose data is viewed by many as the most comprehensive and accurate – said the typical price of a home reached £181,619 in June.
Subsist
Definition:
(v. i.) To be; to have existence; to inhere.
(v. i.) To continue; to retain a certain state.
(v. i.) To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.
(v. t.) To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family.
Example Sentences:
(1) Assessment of nutritional status of vitamin B components by plasma or blood levels indicated riboflavin deficiency and possibly thiamine deficiency in Nigerian patients who suffered from tropical ataxic neuropathy and neurologically normal Nigerians who subsisted on predominant cassava diet.
(2) Mr Mutsa, typical of several million subsistence farmers who farm on average just 0.4 hectares (one acre) yet make up 85% of Malawi's agricultural production, cycled 30 miles to bring his daughter to the hospital in Nsanje, in the far south of Malawi, where four nurses work in its nutrition rehabilitation unit.
(3) The results indicate that a gonadotropic potency subsists in the pituitary even after 20 days of isolated culture.
(4) Socioeconomic variation in the growth status of 293 children, 6 through 13 years of age, from a rural subsistence agricultural community in southern Mexico was considered.
(5) RDE: I wouldn't expect the head of Oxfam to subsist on gruel, but I'd like charity workers to see their jobs as vocations rather than a well-paid career providing both generous financial rewards and the opportunity to pontificate from the moral high ground.
(6) They emphasised upon the necessity of evoked potentials, CT-Scan with contrast and eventually MNR examination specially usefull in cholesteatoma when some doubt subsists.
(7) fractures involving the zygoma, the upper jaw or other orbital bone alteraions and deviations of the bony orbital contours and also of the orbital contents can subsist, even after primary operative correction.
(8) Controversy subsists about interpretations of "delayed cholinergic blanch" in atopic dermatitis.
(9) The study population of 130,000 consisted mainly of subsistence cultivators who live in remote hamlets, and included about 27,600 women between the ages of 15 and 49 years.
(10) And he says it certainly did not give him the right to tell African subsistence farmers how to live.
(11) The highest intakes were observed in individuals subsisting on diets rich in whole wheat grain cereal products and seafoods.
(12) The purposes were: (1) to compare the Mesolithic sample with the later Nubian populations; and (2) to evaluate further the hypothesis that change in Nubian craniofacial morphology was due to changing functional demands associated with the progressive change in subsistence adaptation and associated behavior.
(13) For indigenous subsistence harvest communities in Alaska that rely on the availability of seals and whales, that will mean a way of life, and – even more simply – meals on the line.
(14) These physical impairments would have greatly interfered with the individual's participation in subsistence activities and would have been a substantial handicap in a nomadic hunting and gathering group.
(15) It was likely that time demands from subsistence farming and income generating activities also affected service utilization, but the women probably interpreted the question on employment incorrectly.
(16) Subsistance strategies this Toba group has adopted are quite similar to the strategies other marginal or subaltern groups resort to.
(17) However, many thousands have to wait longer than three weeks because of the backlog, so they subsist on the basics and rely on family and friends to help tide them over until the paperwork is complete.
(18) Uddin was facing allegations over a £100,000 claim in allowances, and Lord Clarke of Hampstead, a former party chairman, admitted his "terrible error" in claiming up to £18,000 a year for overnight subsistence when he often stayed with friends in London or returned home to St Albans, Hertfordshire.
(19) Two related Tupí-Mondê-speaking tribes of the Aripuanã Indian Park of western Brazil are compared in terms of their recent contact with Western culture, subsistence patterns, general health, and blood pressure levels.
(20) The quantitative relationships between dietary energy intake and weight gain in pregnancy, birthweight and lactation performance during the first three months of infancy have been studied in such a way as to take account of major differences in the patterns of heavy manual labour at different times of the year in a subsistence farming community.