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- More troops and more equipment have been moved to the enclave.
- For example, we'd recognize that Section 8 vouchers ought to be administered in a way that doesn't segregate the poor into little enclaves.† (source)
- Similar to Khayelitsha, Gugulethu, Kopanong, and other historic townships in South Africa, it was created for the sole purpose of isolating black Africans in small, destitute enclaves where laws were instituted to control the residents and police entered to harass, not to protect.† (source)
- We're a little enclave on the coast—off by ourselves, surrounded by nothing but marshes and piney woods.† (source)
- Or they could watch alibooboo.com, with various supposed thieves having their hands cut off and adulterers and lipstick-wearers being stoned to death by howling crowds, in dusty enclaves that purported to be in fundamentalist countries in the Middle East.† (source)
- Something had to be done, so people like myself created places where young peculiars could live apart from common folk—physically and temporally isolated enclaves like this one, of which I am enormously proud.† (source)
- In 1962, when I had attended the mostly white San Francisco State University for two years, I found myself living among an enclave of students where I was the only person of color.† (source)
- From a distance, their appearance reminded me of nothing so much as a gaggle of diminutive Jesuits at a New Vatican enclave.† (source)
- I tried to bring up a clear mental picture of Camp Jupiter, the Roman enclave near Berkeley, California, but the details were hazy.† (source)
- Much like Los Angeles, Colorado Springs was a sleepy tourist town in the early part of the twentieth century, an enclave of wealthy invalids and retirees, surrounded by ranchland.† (source)
- This was the Casa Blanca barrio, one of the bigger Mexican enclaves in Southern California.† (source)
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- They will know who sent the Ghost Wind, and I am sure they are aware that I have an enclave here.† (source)
- Look at what I have here in this enclave of million-dollar homes, five miles from the squalor and hard limits of Skid Row.† (source)
- Decatur was coming into its own as a liberal enclave in mostly conservative Atlanta.† (source)
- And a couple of butterball college professors looking for some belly laughs, idea men from the humanistic enclave.† (source)
- About three-quarters of the way to the objective, after the assault force's route merged into a man-made trail, a dog began to bark ferociously from a small enclave of rock-and-timber huts that air reconnaissance had missed.† (source)
- But they cloaked the news from the world for as long as possible, fearing his death would embolden the Taliban to launch a new offensive against the last free enclave in the country.† (source)
- Twenty percent of the population was Mexican; they lived together in their Catholic enclaves and mixed easily with the majority Protestant Anglos.† (source)
- Slipping into a favorite desk, Cedric watches as the rest of the class arrives, mostly girls, many of them part of a tiny middle-class enclave from nearby Boiling Air Force base.† (source)
- Thomas looked down the canyon, toward the entrance to a small enclave where the tribe was slowly waking.† (source)
- Teagarten was forever sounding off about sending NATO forces into Lebanon and leveling every suspected Palestinian enclave.† (source)
- But Salander thought that the Spaniards should keep their mouths shut on that score so long as they occupied the enclave of Ceuta on Moroccan territory across the straits.† (source)
- Tormented by the thought of his old enemy Hamilton riding high as inspector general and federal power in the grip of a "military enclave," Jefferson saw the country on the verge of civil war.† (source)
- That's what I meant when I said the robes are a distraction—the robes, the shaved heads, the earrings, the visible communal enclaves.† (source)
- She had carefully pruned his spirit to rest only in the enclaves of her will, and she had willed so little that he had been tempted to return again and again over the last thirty years because his just being had been enough to satisfy her needs.† (source)
- This enclave has long been the family oasis for planning campaigns, celebrating weddings, or just playing a spirited game of touch football.† (source)
- Nothing has ever affected me in that same profoundly visceral way as the salutation of the Corps when I broke free from the steamy enclave of the locker room into the blue-hazed, cavernous, light-filtered center of the Armory.† (source)
- Possibly an extraterritorial enclave.† (source)
- Finally, at half past two in the afternoon, he climbed into the back of a black Suburban and was driven across Chain Bridge to the wealthy Virginia enclave of McLean.† (source)
- ONCE IT HAD been formally established and its existence ratified by the wolves themselves, my little enclave in their territory remained inviolate.† (source)
- Now the Henrys owned a four-acre enclave at the east boundary of the Bragg groves.† (source)
- At this juncture, then, Auschwitz stands revealed in its dual function: as a depot for mass murder but also a vast enclave dedicated to the practice of slavery.† (source)
- Hundreds of rosebushes and honeysuckles spotted the grass in tidy enclaves with benches for sitting.† (source)
- The family lived in a two-room rental apartment inside the Slavic enclave.† (source)
- I said there was more than one way of living with your head in the sand and that if Moira thought she could create Utopia by shutting herself up in a women-only enclave she was sadly mistaken.† (source)
- Only a few enclaves of merriment remained, groups dancing slowly to a lone guitar or singing drunkenly to themselves.† (source)
- He had built his house in the 1950s when no one would sell him property in the exclusive white enclave of Ardsley Park.† (source)
- These gave way to Ardsley Park, an enclave of early twentieth-century houses with proud facades that featured columns, pediments, porticoes, and terraces.† (source)
- For inside this sprawling, forested enclave in the hills are the villas of China's most powerful figures.† (source)
- The insignia of the high church small but emblazoned in gold on its doors, a long black limousine entered this ethnic enclave.† (source)
- Like a lot of black and Hispanic kids who come here from integrated settings, she finds herself already drifting toward her designated racial enclave.† (source)
- Lilburn was the very model of the modern Atlanta suburb: a mostly white, middle- and upper-middle-class enclave that had sprung up around the old town center of a long-defunct railroad stop.† (source)
- Since we were still scrupulously observing our mutual boundaries, I did not feel like dashing outside my enclave in an effort to head him off.† (source)
- Suleman slowed, reluctantly, to present his documents at a police barricade protecting the Blue Area, the modern diplomatic enclave where Islamabad's government buildings, embassies, and business hotels were arranged between grids of boulevards built on a heroic scale.† (source)
- He sensed an eyeball on the other side of the peephole and he thought of his own street and house and the life of the computer suburb, those huddled enclaves off the turnpike, situated to discourage entry, and the corner store that sells eleven kinds of croissants and twenty-seven coffees, which are somehow never enough, and the life he led before this, the weapons he studied and helped perfect, the desert experience, so completely unconnected to root reality, compared to this man, he…† (source)
- French Canadians formed a dense ethnic enclave on the west side of Manchester, New Hampshire, in those years; a "Little Canada" in which French was the language and Catholicism the religion.† (source)
- It's nearly noon by the time they get to College Hill, a steep slope on top of which Brown sits like a cloud city above the gritty ethnic enclaves, Italian restaurants, and aging factories of Providence.† (source)
- The prince royal was met by officials of the Terran Corporation including the Director General himself and now is being escorted to the locks of the Ratoonian enclave.† (source)
- She returned quickly to speak of Jan, who had survived the selection and who, she learned through the grapevine after a number of days, had been thrown into that desperate enclave known as the Children's Camp.† (source)
- Not only was the car transport for Randy's water-linked enclave of families, it was necessary to maintain their ear to the world outside.† (source)
- Could it be some secluded enclave, perhaps, where the villagers reenacted part of their history periodically?† (source)
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