Sentences with phrase «infested by rats»

An authority can exercise Weeds Act type powers where «any land» is infested or might become infested by rats or mice and this could cover infestation brought about by any weeds (and not just the limited variety covered by the 1959 Act).
Today's report details how many court buildings are «severely dilapidated» and several are infested by rats.

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In the fall of 2010, Garcia was five months pregnant and they were just a step above homelessness, living in a 7 - by -7-foot shack in a friend's rat - infested backyard.
Bigger Thomas stands on a Chicago street corner watching airplanes flown by white men racing against the sun and «Goddamn» he says, the bitterness bubbling up like blood, remembering a million indignities, the terrible, rat - infested house, the humiliation of home - relief, the intense, aimless, ugly bickering, hating it; hatred smolders through these pages like sulphur fire.
WILLSBORO — Remediation is continuing at the Willsboro residence infested by hundreds of rats.
Rat Island By William Stolzenburg (Bloomsbury) In this modern - day Pied Piper tale, scientists, trappers, and ex-poachers descend on rat - infested islands from New Zealand to the Bering Sea, laying down poison - laced bait in a desperate bid to kill one animal so that another might liRat Island By William Stolzenburg (Bloomsbury) In this modern - day Pied Piper tale, scientists, trappers, and ex-poachers descend on rat - infested islands from New Zealand to the Bering Sea, laying down poison - laced bait in a desperate bid to kill one animal so that another might lirat - infested islands from New Zealand to the Bering Sea, laying down poison - laced bait in a desperate bid to kill one animal so that another might live.
Believed to have originally come to Europe from Asia via the Silk Road trading route, it was thought that the repeated plague outbreaks that followed the Black Death epidemic were caused by rodent reservoirs in Europe — bacteria - infested fleas hiding out in rats.
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