How To Use Squatter In A Sentence

But nothing prepared them for life in this squatters' community of Tijuana, a city of three million souls that is known as the Wild West of Mexico's northward immigration.
Secure metal sheets were welded across windows and doors at the former 50-room hotel and restaurant to prevent squatters re-entering the property.
In fact, this mini-album seems to entirely results of an enthusiastic outburst of energy, nurtured while the man was regularly deejaying at squatters parties during the nineties.
The doors and windows had been bricked up to prevent squatters from getting in.
Bourque took his time with the squatters, and a week after the squat, following negotiations, he got the squatters to move into another building on Rachel E.

Last night I caught just a snatch of it, an interview with an ancient black lady living in one of the squatter towns (informal settlements).
They are there to fill up space profitably rather than leave it empty, they do not have any squatters' rights when an edible crop is needed. Planning the Organic Vegetable Garden
Some squatters were incorporated within the local housing orbit, some weren't.
The peasant family is cramped tightly into a small makeshift shack squatter slum.
Why are our trained warriors risking their lives to "cajole" a vindictive Shia government to help poor Sunni squatters? Archive 2007-04-01
Additional benefits are bringing employment to people in squatter cities, recycling lots of electronic components and creating economic development where it is needed most. Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » LED Light
In that case, the householder can force a way in or the police can evict the squatters. Times, Sunday Times
What kind of cybersquatter goes after novelists instead of celebs? A Writer By Any Other Name...
The initial founding of a squatter settlement is, itself, an illegal act and, therefore, a challenge to authority.
The squatters settled in the flat part of the ravine, on top of the cemetery, but did not build a good city in terms of urban development.
Joe is squatter and swarthier: his eyebrows beetle; his black pupils glitter. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
You've got to feel sorry for the once-proud cybersquatters who bought up huge numbers of domain names hoping to sell them off for a small fortune.
The Johannesburg council, however, plans to evict the squatters so that the building can be revamped as part of its inner city regeneration programme.
The problem was compounded when some owners emigrated or absconded, some sold their buildings to slumlords, and others abandoned their properties, allowing squatters to move in.
Still, it's a valuable lesson for anyone who finds their property overrun by squatters in the future. The Sun
Following extant written sources, this process has been seen in relation to the quartering of troops that occurred during the war between the Byzantines and the Goths, or simply as the result of occupation by squatters.
The court rules that the squatters were illegally occupying the land.
Ethnic minority groupings, squatters and welfare rights workers, for example, usually fare badly in comparison with statusquo middle-class groups.
I wonder if the Founders knew that Washington, DC would be full of so many squatters, parasites, and hangers-on. Matthew Yglesias » Are We Doomed?
The doughty Icelanders know that they have only squatters' rights on their volcanic island. Times, Sunday Times
People in squatter cities pay about $75.00 per year for kerosene. Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » NASA Design Contest Update
The squatter settlements originally came into being through illegal land invasions.
Following a few weeks of begging on the streets and sleeping in derelict buildings, he falls in with a friendly group of squatters.
Within minutes the squatters had stripped the car.
Many squatters pulled down their own houses to save building materials like plywood and plastic sheeting, but many others stood by while their houses were destroyed by bulldozers.
Some were forced to become "squatters" on land along the fringes of settlement that no one had yet claimed. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
Disused and neglected, the hall was invaded by squatters who occupied the building until it was gutted by a fire in 2002, which killed five people.
We drafted out all the worst and weediest of the cattle, besides all the old cows, and when we counted the mob out we had nearly eleven hundred first-rate store cattle; lots of fine young bullocks and heifers, more than half fat — altogether a prime well-bred mob that no squatter or dealer could fault in any way if the price was right. Robbery Under Arms
Total said it had been in the process of decommissioning the petrol station when the squatters moved in.
In that case, the householder can force a way in or the police can evict the squatters. Times, Sunday Times
Either that or squatters' rights. Times, Sunday Times
I'll commit all my power to rid the country of squatters' rights. The Sun
In default of legal authority, in this early period, they formed squatter governments and land associations, comparable to the action of the Massachusetts men who in the first quarter of the seventeenth century "squatted" in the The Frontier in American History
Guests enjoy full squatters' rights at both hotels - two resorts for the price of one. Times, Sunday Times
In that case, the householder can force a way in or the police can evict the squatters. Times, Sunday Times
The demand for self-government in New South Wales in the 1840s came from the rich squatters who objected to Governor Gipps attempting to make them pay more for their land.
The squatter sends another swagman to the billabong to trick our hero into taking a walk, the rat hands our hero to the cops, he's paid off and our hero goes to jail?
Squatters were given their marching orders after police, bailiffs and immigration officials teamed up for an eviction sting.
Let there not be a repeat of what has happened in nearby Zimbabwe where thousands of squatters have been forcibly removed from illegal settlements.
The proximity of the wealthy suburb to the squatter camp throws the plight of the squatters into even sharper relief.
On the way you pass through the sprawl of makeshift dwellings that are home to tens of thousands of squatters.
Today I accompanied two Axis artists to a happening in a squalid squatter camp in downtown Johannesburg.
It was a drastic shift in policy that ended two decades of routinely evicting squatters.
It has been one month since squatters occupied the old Woodwards building in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
By the way Squatter, its spelled "floozie" with a big "Z" in the middle, since you are always so grammatically correct in fixing others flaws. Undefined
Ethnic minority groupings, squatters and welfare rights workers, for example, usually fare badly in comparison with statusquo middle-class groups.
Known as gecekondu because they are ‘built at night,’ this squatter housing takes advantage of an ancient law that says if construction begins after sundown, whatever is standing at sunrise has legal status.
The squatters are living amid human and animal excrement and filth.
Benefits for the cybersquatter come in the form of per-click revenue from ads on the repossessed site. Don’t Let Cybersquatters Steal Your Name : Law is Cool
In other words, the tenant's estate was somehow divisible into two portions, only one of which was extinguished by the squatter's adverse possession.
They argued that the occupation posed safety risks to the squatters as the property was fenced in by a power line and electric cables and there was an petroleum pipe underground.
DURBAN, Sept 11 (Reuter) - Two men were shot dead in overnight violence in Bhambayi squatter settlement outside Durban, police said on Sunday. ANC Daily News Briefing
After being empty for years, the boarded-up building is now home to a trio of squatters, who have dubbed themselves ‘land pirates’.
In 1989, municipal authorities under a previous mayor had expropriated 750 acres and evicted thousands of squatters.
A sniffer dog detected numerous accelerants at the scene, though police are uncertain whether they were used to start the fire, or just recreational material left by squatters.
On top of that, Perry got endorsed by swivel-eyed flat tax fan Steve Forbes, who famously blew a stack of cash running in 1996 and 2000 for the Republican nomination.3.08pm: Oh dear – it seems cruel cyber-squatters have been buying and abusing slight variations on the spelling of Michele Bachmann's name. US politics live blog: Obama's new housing plan, Republican presidential candidates in a tangle
W|P|[email protected]/31/2006 12:33:00 AM|W|P| Eli Blake|W|P|Obviously, this is a 'cybersquatter' who pays scant attention to the real news. Archive 2006-07-01
I have seen choirs form a "squatters rights " clique. Christianity Today
Another carries a reputation as a "cybersquatter" and supports making heroin legally available to addicts. Candidates Crowd Stage
Even when it was discovered that the land was unstable and prone to landslide, the squatters remained.
We drafted out all the worst and weediest of the cattle, besides all the old cows, and when we counted the mob out we had nearly eleven hundred first-rate store cattle; lots of fine young bullocks and heifers, more than half fat -- altogether a prime well-bred mob that no squatter or dealer could fault in any way if the price was right. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
Squatters occupy vacant lots in the upscale neighborhood where the Kumars live in Hyderabad, and their campfires give the warm air a smoky smell.
First: prohibition of estate owning, distribution of land among the peasant families, the untransferrable and unalterable granting of ownership to all the present small tenant farmers, sharecroppers, agricultural laborers and squatters, state economic and technical aid, reduction of taxes. STATEMENTS BY CASTRO AT PRIME MINISTER OF THE RE
Next to an office-building of gray sandstone you're likely to spot what looks like a squatter's wickyup of rusty galvanized iron. The Prairie Child
Fences are being torn down and on my own ranch squatters have snared 2000 impalas, 365 other antelopes, 20 zebras, two cheetahs, two elephants and one wild dog.
Squatter's Dream_, reappeared in 1890 as a successor to the famous bushranging story. Australian Writers
The cybersquatter usually then offers to sell the domain at an inflated price to the person or company who owns the trademark. Daniel Grant: Q. What's In a Name? A. Your Artistic Identity
ICANN in March awarded a contract to create the new so-called top-level domain name to a company called ICM Registry LLC, which Manwin and Digital Playground say has abused its position by requiring pornography companies and others to buy up Internet addresses in order to keep squatters from infringing on their trademarks with close equivalents like YouPorn.xxx. Porn Firm Fights Web Costs
Three days later, another fire killed seven in a building used by squatters.
Police continued to keep a close watch on the squatters to ensure that the makeshift homes were not re-erected once the demolition was completed.
The air smells of smoke from the campfires of squatters who live on vacant lots, next door to software executives and movie stars.
Finding themselves dispossessed of everything they owned, they became squatters in their former land.
More often than not the big companies win and anyone who is pitted against them is described as a cybersquatter (not always fairly in my view). Informationoverlord
Their eyes watered with the keen tang of the peat reek, till, tired with watching the squattering of ducks in farm puddles, they turned as usual upon the family sagaman, and demanded, with that militant assurance of youth which succeeds so often, that he should forthwith and immediately "tell them something. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
Hyde Park Corner article, and not the old "shandrydan" with which some remote squatter might at times have galloped into town, poising himself with practised and needed adroitness on nature's bush track, behind a pair or more of the hundreds of nags on his run. Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
Sometimes she would come out of the house, if the steps were very full, with her own sketching paraphernalia in her hands and say, ever so coyly: "May I scriggle through?" or ask the squatters on her own steps if they could find a little corner for her. Miss Mapp
The order came amid a tense stand-off between several hundred squatters and police, who late Wednesday night fired rubber bullets after being stoned by residents, and on Thursday morning used a thunderflash on the crowd. ANC Daily News Briefing
But as regards health and safety for squatters, there's not much that can be done if the building they are occupying turns out to be dangerous or structurally unsound.
There are many such other cases, including Kitwe, where squatters have occupied land illegally at the former council farm and are resisting moving despite a court ruling that they vacate the land.
The teenagers claimed squatters' rights and were allowed to remain in the building.
“Squatters have taken over a house at the centre of rort revelations, Karla Adam reports from London” Tuesday morning and UK rorting is still news in Australia
Many of the squatter settlements exhibit high levels of social organisation and stability rather than marginal characteristics.
A Judge today ordered squatters occupying a dilapidated York hotel to leave the building immediately and pay £2,000 in legal costs.
They confirmed that all the squatters had been evicted and that no one had been arrested. Times, Sunday Times
Although Duvenage has been through all the legal channels he has been unable to either sell his land to government or evict the squatters.
Ethnic minority groupings, squatters and welfare rights workers, for example, usually fare badly in comparison with statusquo middle-class groups.
Forty years ago it began to attract squatters who could not find cheap housing elsewhere.
THOSE who say it is unfair to take away squatters' rights as it will cause more homelessness are in a position to help them if they wish. The Sun
A group of squatters overtook an abandoned army base and created a self-ruling micro-nation in the heart of Copenhagen.
Forty years ago it began to attract squatters who could not find cheap housing elsewhere.
The initial founding of a squatter settlement is, itself, an illegal act and, therefore, a challenge to authority.
In that case, the householder can force a way in or the police can evict the squatters. Times, Sunday Times
Aviner is a rabbi from the terrorist Ateret Cohanim yeshiva, which is part of the "jewish underground" of extremist and murderous squatters in the West Bank. Palestine Blogs aggregator
The proximity of the wealthy suburb to the squatter camp throws the plight of the squatters into even sharper relief.
Not many people feel sorry for cybersquatters losing the right to a domain name, but the issue needs to be faced: should there be a legitimate trade in domain names?
And even then, this detail is often lost, an accent overwhelmed by the loud plastic awnings, hawkers' kerb-spreads and squatters' impedimenta that define the metropolitan street.
The disturbances began after squatters in the Koy-ye Tolab suburb attacked municipal officials who were checking construction permits.
They moved into runs in the drier back country rather than deal with established squatters and selectors.
According to Alamsyah, most of the squatters in the area work as garbage men, scavengers and do other odd jobs.
Endangered species include Regent honeyeaters, bush stone-curlew, squatter pigeon, superb parrot, swift parrot, turquoise parrot, gray-crown babbler, painted honey-eater and black-throated finch. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES FOR ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATES
There's the old lumber-house -- there's the squatter's house -- there's where the cow keeps, and there's the hogsty, and half a dozen more, all of which you're quite welcome to. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia
He has backed the invasions, saying the squatters are simply reclaiming land stolen by colonialists.
The local police took swift action against the squatters.
These amounted to a compendious accounting for the possessions of most if not all squatters on the entire length of territory stretching east of Melbourne and from the Murray to Bass Strait, and all three parties to the Loughnan affair were listed, viz.No. 24. Archive 2009-05-01
Far from being desperately poor peasants, the squatters were clearly city dwellers.
Anyway, I've got it straight from headquarters that the squatters expect to get blacklegs working under enough military protection to make blacklegging feel safe, as they look at it, and then they think our unions will break right down. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
Another American squatter was always sending over to borrow a small-tooth comb, which she called a vermin destroyer; and once the same person asked the loan of a towel, as a friend had come from the States to visit her, and the only one she had, had been made into a best "pinny" for the child; she likewise begged a sight in the looking-glass, as she wanted to try on a new cap, to see if it were fixed to her mind. Roughing It in the Bush
The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in
The destruction of homes caused by incessant rains in many of the squatter townships that litter our cities has now become an annual event.
The current gang of squatters are not happy we have moved in - the woodworm, some hairy spiders, 20 years of cobwebs and a family of field mice.
JOHANNESBURG, July 4 (Reuter) - Four people were hacked and burned to death at a squatter camp near Johannesburg on Tuesday, police said. ANC Daily News Briefing
It revolves around re-creation of a 19th century grazing property, owned by a squatter and his wife, and all of the people who work on their selection.
It states that in Africa, Asia and Latin America there are 600 million people living in squatter settlements around conurbations that lack any sanitation infrastructure.
The Cedar Surf is about surf shacks, back roads, bushwhackers, hitchhikers and squatters in the rainforest isolation in and around Tofino, Ucluelet and Jordan River, where surfing beaches are crowded with sea lions, not people.
He said any police intervention was likely to have a dire effect because some of the squatters were now armed with automatic firearms.
The initial founding of a squatter settlement is, itself, an illegal act and, therefore, a challenge to authority.
After moving in, I built a raised platform and installed a toilet seat, converting the privy from a squatter to a sitter.
My next-door neighbour spent a prolonged period away from home recently, and returned to find her house had been taken over by squatters. Times, Sunday Times
Even the squatter has a great deal of trouble to get hold of a good man as a shepherd or knockabout hand.
| Reply very very funny, thanks anil. i wonder how the Facebook Username Dispute Resolution Community will deal with #facesquatters bob. hitching.net Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames - Anil Dash
The initial founding of a squatter settlement is, itself, an illegal act and, therefore, a challenge to authority.
Many of the squatter settlements exhibit high levels of social organisation and stability rather than marginal characteristics.
This was demonstrated in the resettlement of Vila Planetario, a squatter settlement of refuse collectors in the centre of the city.
In 1967 the police closed the hotel down, and it was taken over by squatters. Times, Sunday Times
Local white residents say their anger is not directed at the squatters, but at the government for what they call disorganised and piecemeal plans that fail to address the central problem of urban homelessness. ANC Daily News Briefing
The township is a sprawling shanty town and squatter camp hidden by the bush.
With little effective recourse, the Government reluctantly accepted the presence of the squatters and handed over Crown land for nominal lease and licence fees.
Ethnic minority groupings, squatters and welfare rights workers, for example, usually fare badly in comparison with statusquo middle-class groups.
Empty flats were taken over by squatters or used as crack dens. Times, Sunday Times
He recognised the value of making concessions to the colonists where possible, and it was opportune that his term of office coincided with a relaxation of policy from London and the recognition of land claims by squatters.
DURBAN - At least 11 blacks were killed when attackers raided an African National Congress aligned section of a black squatter settlement near South Africa's port city of Durban, police said. ANC Daily News Briefing
Every year the men used to ride out along the boundaries of the land owned by the towns just to make sure that they were intact; that none of it had been settled on by squatters or enclosed by the local lairds.
The order came amid a tense stand-off between several hundred squatters and police, who late Wednesday night fired rubber bullets after being stoned, and on Thursday morning used a thunderflash to keep the invaders at bay. ANC Daily News Briefing
Our collective priority for the near term must be to evict the Crawford squatter from the White House. Archive 2004-04-01
Squatters of "cockatoos," or even of miners; for no one came their way who could possibly help it. Station Amusements
The current gang of squatters are not happy we have moved in - namely the woodworm, hairy spiders, 20 years of cobwebs and dust and a family of fieldmice.
AT last the law on squatters' rights will be changed. The Sun
Every year the men used to ride out along the boundaries of the land owned by the towns just to make sure that they were intact; that none of it had been settled on by squatters or enclosed by the local lairds.
DURBAN, March 26 (Reuter) - SADF troops moved into Bhambayi squatter settlement south of Durban on Saturday after four people, including two toddlers, were shot dead in ANC-Inkatha clashes overnight, witnesses and police said. ANC Daily News Briefing
The old official club website address has been taken over by cybersquatters.
The squatters were evicted but the occupation galvanised the movement. Times, Sunday Times
In many cases, the domain name that has been reserved by the cybersquatter has already been trademarked or service marked by another organization.
The Russian edition of Forbes magazine has won a lawsuit against a 'cybersquatter' for use of the domain name Forbes. ru. Robert Amsterdam
To evict squatters, property owners must take out a summons for possession in the County Court or High Court or produce a written statement or certificate under the Criminal Law Act 1977.
Early pastoralists, or squatters as they were often called, lived a hard and pioneering life, often in isolation with few if any comforts.
The proximity of the wealthy suburb to the squatter camp throws the plight of the squatters into even sharper relief.
Such juries would be unlikely to evict squatters from land owned by a wealthy entity that left the land untouched, i.e., treated as an investment.
Commoners, squatters, and others who had lived on the land but without a specific landholding were expropriated at enclosure, and few seem to have been able to make a living thereafter.
On September 16, the courts issued an injunction asking squatters to leave the building.
A new word was coined to describe such individuals: ‘cybersquatters.’
These millions of folks, in effect squatters illegally occupying untitled land, cannot ever use their houses for collateral for loans or have any recourse to generate wealth.
The previous Victorian act, the Land Tax Act 1877, was directed to lands owned by squatters, what were known as landed estates.
There were the exhibitionist squatters with their "I squat, therefore I am" credo.
Police burned more than 300 houses to try to stop the squatters returning and say they must also leave their makeshift camp. Times, Sunday Times
Last year, the building was occupied by a group of squatters, who claimed they were protesting against buildings being left empty in York.
The proximity of the wealthy suburb to the squatter camp throws the plight of the squatters into even sharper relief.
More than 1.3 million Haitians live in squatter camps, facing disgruntled landowners and violent evictions, with no international or government plan to move or house them. Haiti Housing Prices Rival New York, LA
Police burned more than 300 houses to try to stop the squatters returning and say they must also leave their makeshift camp. Times, Sunday Times
To make things worse, the city administration has blamed annual flooding and the worsening condition of overpasses and bridges on squatters.
Can't we replace the vanquished with the courageous, the Chamberlains with the Churchills, the failed squatter with the successful farmer?
The so-called defense of Angus McMillan’s Bushy Park, and innumerable one-sided skirmishes elsewhere in Gippsland during the 1840s, for which the squatters’ justification was usually some form of legitimate reprisal for thefts of cattle, or fictitious attacks on white settlers (even a few real ones), effectively combined to wipe out most of the Aborigines of East Gippsland within a span of ten years, roughly extending from 1840 to 1850. Archive 2009-03-01
He has referred to his return to the business as like arriving home to find squatters in the house. Times, Sunday Times
Hundreds of squatters have invaded waste land in the hope that they will be allowed to stay.
Squatters had occupied the building earlier that morning, but were cleared out within 15 minutes of police converging on the scene.
Many Roma in Western Europe are squatters, occupying condemned buildings while trying to find more suitable accommodations.
Squatters' shanties can be found on the fringes of the cities.
The local police took swift action against the squatters.
Not only do they live in highly organised "towns" of hundreds of individuals, but they also have to compete with squatters, such as cottontail rabbits, rattlesnakes, tarantulas, burrowing owls, badgers and swift foxes, that often move into their burrows. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
The squatter settlements originally came into being through illegal land invasions.
The city council continued its crusade against bad buildings, evicting illegal squatters from several bad buildings.
It happened almost every night, the neighborhoods too poor to pay for the fire teams to quench the flames, one at a time the last refuges of squatters were being cleared out.
A teenager plays cricket in a squatter camp in Krugersdorp on March 6, 2010.
The existence of one billion squatters might suggest that ownership is overrated.
Ethnic minority groupings, squatters and welfare rights workers, for example, usually fare badly in comparison with statusquo middle-class groups.
He added that weak law enforcement had resulted in the occupation of riverbanks and other forbidden areas in the city by illegal squatters, and the unlawful development of buildings by developers.
Imagine you're over 60 years of age and a squatter living in the largest slum in Kenya.
A landlord brought an action against persons who were alleged to be squatters.
From the 1850s it referred to small farmers settling on Crown lands occupied by squatters.
These conditions also existed in abandoned buildings occupied by squatters in New York and in buildings run by slumlords or taken over by the city.
Police have previously been accused of standing by or supporting the land invasions and ignoring court orders to evict the squatters.
The plan aims to clear squatters from government-owned land to make way for infrastructure and commercial development.
As the time for the evening Iftar - the breaking of the Ramadan fast - drew closer, the squatters became more desperate.
The local police took swift action against the squatters.
It may be a symbiotic relationship, since these "squatters" have been known to unite to drive away the minor predators able to kill and feed upon the lily.
It's like being evicted from your house by squatters. Times, Sunday Times
Unlike the popular image of unruly and scungy squatter households, James' model is highly organised and makes use of buildings only until they are ready for redevelopment.
And the squatter shouldn't have taken advantage of our error, since as best we can tell he has nothing whatsoever to do with anything Volokh, and is just trying to bait-and-switch unsuspecting users.
This process is cheaper than legal action against the cybersquatter, but unlike legal action it cannot grant recovery of damages to the complainant. Don’t Let Cybersquatters Steal Your Name : Law is Cool
The initial founding of a squatter settlement is, itself, an illegal act and, therefore, a challenge to authority.
Meanwhile Tent City, the rickety collection of 50 squatter homes on the waterfront, was cleared away, and residents were offered temporary housing.
The minister said the man acted contrary to the law and advised all land owners to follow laid down procedure when evicting squatters.
As building inspectors, fire marshals and riot police rally against them, the squatters continue to fight for decent shelter and survival.
Pharmaceutical companies in particular are concerned about protecting the names of drugs so they can't be used as domain names by cybersquatters.
After sometimes months on the road, carefully herding the squatter's stock, the drover would ask for his cheque.
The local police took swift action against the squatters.

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