This is the scene today in a devastated shantytown. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2008] Reference
You have some that are very cool, shantytown style. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2003] Reference
A sour economy has spurred the growth of the shantytown. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2009] Reference
There had already been several deaths over in the shantytown. From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel's Lady]
African plumbers secretly reconnect water pipes to a starving shantytown. From Wordnik.com. [The Eco-Man's Library: Movies and Television] Reference
Looking for a way of screening a film in a shantytown with no electricity?. From Wordnik.com. [Diana Odasso: alldaybuffet: Social Activism For The Cool Kids] Reference
The hillsides are carpeted with pinpricks of amber shantytown streetlights. From Wordnik.com. [Love In The Time Of Counterrevolution] Reference
FIRED UP A kerosene lantern made of tomato cans, used in a shantytown in Kenya. From Wordnik.com. [Smaller, Smarter] Reference
VERJEE: Give us a sense of the anger felt in the shantytown that you grew up in. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2005] Reference
As one moves around Caracas, the foothills of shantytown barrios are omnipresent. From Wordnik.com. [Sean Penn: Mountain of Snakes] Reference
Those who arrived early erected shacks, transforming the fields into a shantytown. From Wordnik.com. [Land Grab] Reference
Suddenly, in the shantytown where she lives, lots of people wanted to loan her money. From Wordnik.com. [A Global Surge in Tiny Loans] Reference
Amol Sharma Outside, stray dogs pick through mounds of garbage in the surrounding shantytown. From Wordnik.com. [India's Extra Industry] Reference
Today she rents a cinder-block home in a sprawling shantytown on the edge of this river town. From Wordnik.com. [French Benefits:] Reference
It shows men brandishing guns and clubs, attacking residents in a shantytown in northern China. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2005] Reference
In terms of what's happening on the Palestinian front, remember, this camp which is a shantytown. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 22, 2007] Reference
Thousands of deformed survivors have been forced to live in a sprawling shantytown around the city. From Wordnik.com. [Look Out, Japan] Reference
What happens in the shantytown in South Africa affects all of us, and we talk about writing checks. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 26, 2009] Reference
The settlement is a rural shantytown, where pigs patrol dirt streets flanked by open sewage ditches. From Wordnik.com. [A Plot Of Their Own] Reference
Well, he is homeless after Mumbai city workers bulldozed the shantytown where he and his family live. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 14, 2009] Reference
They were to present the saloon owner with an ultimatum about the shacks he owned up in the shantytown. From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel's Lady]
What's happening this morning is incoming rounds from Iraqi positions just across there in the shantytown. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2003] Reference
And in the Philippines, hundreds of poor families left homeless after a fire sweeps through their shantytown. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2007] Reference
Three hours later we arrived in darkness at the shantytown village of Bukit Lawang, on the edge of the jungle. From Wordnik.com. [The Macphersons: Week 42: The Sumatra Story] Reference
That is precisely the dictum the A.N.C. has followed across South Africa, from the boardroom to the shantytown. From Wordnik.com. [Why South Africa Won't Stop Mugabe: Jonny Steinberg] Reference
Throughout the 135-minute film, our gaze rarely strays beyond the scruffy confines of the favela, or shantytown. From Wordnik.com. [Suffocating In The Slums] Reference
Transworld Publishers says Rubina Ali's book will tell the story of her life in the shantytown where she grew up. From Wordnik.com. ['Slumdog' Child Star Rubina Ali Gets Book Deal] Reference
His latest video installation, "Kuba," constructs a communal portrait of life in an Istanbul shantytown, voice by voice. From Wordnik.com. [Turkish Delight] Reference
In another shantytown in Niterói, Morro do Castro, locals worked furiously to find family and friends buried in a mudslide. From Wordnik.com. [Death Toll in Brazil Mudslides Worsens] Reference
Be fore going to a Tijuana shantytown called Lo mas Taurinas last week, he asked officials to keep his security detail light. From Wordnik.com. [Murder In Mexico] Reference
"Welcome to Rocinha," says tour guide Anibal Felix, "the biggest shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, maybe in all of Latin America.". From Wordnik.com. [Slumming Is Hot In Rio] Reference
Many others died as slum housing collapsed, especially in Gadah (ph), an impoverished shantytown on Karachi's eastern outskirts. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2007] Reference
Plus, a child star living a shantytown despite his fame -- now his family suffers a devastating setback -- their home destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 14, 2009] Reference
HUNTER-GAULT: More recently, this railway bombing that left one woman dead in a poor Soweto shantytown, it's being called terrorism. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2003] Reference
RIO DE JANEIRO Rio, especially its favelas (the Brazilian word for slum or shantytown), was hard hit by flooding earlier this month. From Wordnik.com. [Brazilian music and culture appeal to couple planning a honeymoon] Reference
A doctor had been called in from Rapid City and had set up a makeshift clinic near the shantytown where the epidemic had hit hardest. From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel's Lady]
Squatters immediately moved into this lawless section of the city, erecting a shantytown devoid of electricity, fresh water or sanitation. From Wordnik.com. [Typhoon Season]
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