Sentences with word «squalid»

They are living in squalid conditions in overflowing, makeshift camps and settlements.

Late yesterday evening, our friends at Fulton County Animal Services received a call from the fire department stating that at least 50 dogs were living in squalid conditions in a home that had recently caught fire.

Stories of squalid living conditions in some puppy mill operations have heightened public awareness of the problem, Baker said, but too often a few cans of paint substitute for substantive changes in animal care.

Curt Rogers, 55, a Cambridge resident who organized support for the ban, pointed to a recent case where dozens of Great Danes were rescued from squalid conditions in a puppy mill inside a New Hampshire mansion as an example of inhumane breeding close to home.

That means thousands of people have accumulated in squalid camps in Greece, Italy and Hungary.

They warn it could be «as devastating» as the eviction of Aboriginal people from pastoral stations in the 1960s, in the wake of the equal wages case, into squalid camps at Fitzroy Crossing, Hall's Creek and Derby.

Shelter and rescue workers who receive dogs from raids on squalid kennels often lead the fight for laws restricting or regulating breeding in an effort to close kennels they label as puppy mills.

«The Focus E15 mums are the visible top edge of Newham's frankly squalid housing crisis.

Patti (Australian actress Danielle Macdonald) lives with, and takes care of, her hard - drinking, sometimes abusive mother (Bridget Everett) and wheelchair - bound Nana (Cathy Moriarty) in a cramped, squalid apartment.

Set amongst squalid refugee camps, various scenes show audacious visions of the horrors that have occurred in Ethiopia, Cambodia, and Chechnya.

The City Council is investigating allegations that NYCHA threatened some residents who complained about squalid conditions.

Synopsis: Set on the unforgiving, squalid streets of Victorian London in 1880, our tale begins in the baroque, grandiose music hall where the capital's most renowned performer Dan Leno (Douglas Booth) takes to the stage.

Located on arguably the most visible corner in Hollywood, the project was a linchpin of Hollywood redevelopment, lending credibility to the formerly squalid district.

Last month, PETA obtained photos and videos from a former company employee showing dogs confined in squalid quarters and, in some cases, left to suffer from painful injuries and dental disease.

Many feed them inappropriate diets and keep them in squalid enclosures and cages that not only deprive them of the ability to engage in natural behaviors, but fail to confine them safely, leading to escapes.

The photographer was a pioneer of «squalid realism» with his images of his parents» dreary, drunken existence in the Black Country, which won him a Turner prize nomination.

In what must surely rank as one of the most squalid seduction scenes in literature, Charlotte's Spartan self - confidence is overcome by a combination of alcohol, a handsome frat boy's flattery, and her own ambivalent yearnings to be noticed and envied.

He has branded the attempts to unseat the Labour leader a «squalid coup» and warned that those working to get rid of Mr Corbyn would be «branded forever with the mark of infamy for betraying their party and their country».

Guston was a painter of brute matter and even more squalid inclinations.

It's all the same Karnaca we've seen before, with its juxtaposed squalid poverty and gilded excess, and none of the environments are as inventive as the Jindosh clockwork mansion or Stilton's manor in its two timelines.

These dogs suffer horrible abuse at the hands of their masters, who often beat them, tie them up, breed them over and over again and let them live in squalid misery.

Living conditions are often squalid.

Square wooden shanties sit on the hill to my left like squalid gingerbread houses, lost in heaps of grayish icing.

Yet, clearly, all this acting - out, which has been going on in his work since the 1970s, doesn't work, because he always ends up in the same place, forever re-enacting the same squalid scenes.

Union organizer, Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper), a scab named «Few Clothes» Johnson (James Earl Jones) and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers» rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.

The New Jersey Society for the Protection of Animals said that Garruto kept dogs in squalid cages, covered in feces and urine, without access to water.

«Planned Parenthood last week admitted to knowing about the horrors going on inside Kermit Gosnell's squalid Philadelphia clinic, but chose not to exercise its position as the leader in the abortion industry to put an end to the butchering of women and children,» Susan B. Anthony President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement.

They may have assumed that sexual activity is part of the «experimentation» that college is supposed to enact, a step on the road to adulthood, but in reality it was a distressing and squalid habitat that left them hurt and confused.

If Chip's argument is taken to its logical conclusion, Miami and Hong Kong should be squalid cesspools of poverty rather than vibrant centers of industry and commerce.

The weakness and the wickedness of men, and all the bitter tears, the foul squalid things, the chaos of pride, lies, and deceit which have welled up from the heart of man which gives of its abundance, not all these have prevailed to death against the Church of Christ, nor yet belied even those words of Christ within a proverb, that «by their fruits you shall know them».

Unlike these pitilessly planned places, Crossroads is a home, however squalid.

But all the pious imagemaking of the town council can not hide the fact that this folklore is heavily laden with tales of squalid primitivism.

Successive attempts to demolish squalid parts of the camp have been met with criticism and resistance.

Ten years down the line, protestor Brian Haw's «squalid encampment» could be entering its final calendar year.

You're not just a single c *** but a f *** ing squalid hyperc *** - a 4 - dimensional c *** inside another c *** inside another c ***, a mess of scandalous w *** ery, s *** headed incompetence and obstinate persistence in the face of every bit of evidence of what works, with a face like Michael Gove artificially in - f *** ing - seminating a crackhead's puke and less good policy than the orgasmic grunts of the biannual gangbang of the 1922 Committee.

Also many young people are living in squalid rented accommodation.

While he did not provide details on funding, the governor also took responsibility for ensuring that conditions at municipal homeless shelters, which some say can be so squalid and dangerous that they would rather sleep on the streets, are up to code.

From squalid asylums and ice pick lobotomies to the dawn of antidepressants and MRIs, Shrinks details psychiatry's missteps and failures, and eventual triumphs, as Lieberman tries to shake off the debilitating stigma that clings to mental illness — and the people who treat it.

They associate small towns with the dirty, squalid villages in Russia.

These are naturally intended as Lincoln - Memorial - level rebukes to today's various squalid declines in Washington and Hollywood.

As the film takes us from star - capped frontier panoramas to squalid urban trailers, Haigh and Danish cinematographer Magnus Joenck focus on Charley in nearly every frame, so that his desperation becomes ours.

Bloodborne, is visually beautiful in a Victorian squalid sort of way, but amusing it does not try to be, and entertaining it is not.

Punishing herself for going off on «banal» tangents that conjure vivid images of Hitler's squalid bunker (Blind Spot's structural conceit finds Junge judging the playback of comments she previously made), she recounts in linear detail the beginning of the end, so to speak.

In fact, it stands up to comparison with the 1992 film of David Mamet's magnificently squalid play Glengarry Glen Ross, which in many ways it resembles, not least in featuring a peerless ensemble cast that includes Kevin Spacey.

Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here could be considered artsy exploitation, a film whose formal dexterity belies its debts to its chosen, and quite squalid, genre.

While there some great character work and some some Bradbury-esque ruminations on whether robots can have souls, the slick visuals can't save squalid pacing and the sense that all three would have been better served in a different format.

Tashi (Imran Khan), Nitin (Kunaal Roy Kapur) and Arup (Vir Das) are three pals sharing a truly squalid New Delhi flat and struggling to get ahead.

There's probably a cracking Metal Rear Squalid pun to be made here, but I just can't quite finish it in a satisfying manner.

When Blake arrives at his destination — a nightmarishly squalid settlement of festering meanness and pollution — he's told derisively by both Dickinson (Robert Mitchum), the blustering, hostile metal - works owner, and one of his henchmen (John Hurt) that they no longer need an accountant, having filled the position some time ago.