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Squatting on our haunches beside the flat stone we broke them on, we were safe behind the high closed gates at the end of the drive: safe from interruption and the observation and possible amusement of the passers-by.
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Squatting and on
England has made squatting illegal on the 1st of September 2012 as BBC reports: " Squatting in a residential building in England and Wales will become a criminal offence on Saturday, meaning squatters could face jail or a fine.
Squatting, for example, makes use of empty buildings for the homeless, and dumpster diving practices recovering food that is being wasted ( with the motivation in mind that there are billions of people starving who could survive on foraged food from dumpsters of industrialized countries ).
Squatting on the ground as a resting position. Squatting is a posture where the weight of the body is on the feet ( as with standing ) but the knees are bent either fully ( full or deep squat ) or partially ( partial, half, semi, parallel or monkey squat ).
* Squat – Squatting large weights, like 900 lb ( 409 kg ) of bricks, a car, or people on a platform.
Squatting and we
Anarchist Colin Ward comments: " Squatting is the oldest mode of tenure in the world, and we are all descended from squatters.
Squatting and were
They have been pinned down by the covenant, but Squatting Bear snipes the Covenant leader while their " technologically advanced weapons " were recharging.
Squatting of empty buildings and buildings used for other purposes than living led to a strong confrontation with contractors, who were aligned with the Dutch Mafia.
Squatting and behind
Early in 1881 the first five graziers, who called themselves the Murray Squatting Company, took up 120, 000 behind Beagle Bay and named it Yeeda Station.
Squatting and at
* Wiegand E. ( 2004 ) Trespass at Will: Squatting as Direct Action, Human Right & Justified Theft ( LiP Magazine )
A fierce fight rages between Squatting Bear and Clip-Doodle-Bot, resulting in Clips destruction at the cost of DigiPad sacrificing his life to save Squatting Bear.
Squatting and from
Squatting became known by the term instandbesetzen, from instandsetzen (" renovating ") and besetzen (" occupying ").
Squatting in the Netherlands became illegal and punishable when a decree was sent out that the law would be enforced from the first of October.
He sacrifices himself to save his friend Squatting Bear from Clip-Doodle-Bot by blowing up himself and Clip.
Squatting Bear, after killing the Blue Team members for betraying him, saves Kelly and Jonathan from the Grunts, but is knocked out by the android.
Squatting and .
But for purely definition purposes -- used in conjunction with your regular Squatting, Leg Curling, Leg Extensor programs -- a heavy weight is not needed.
Squatting consists of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land and / or a building-usually residential-that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use.
U. K. police official Sue Williams, for example, has stated that " Squatting is linked to Anti-Social Behaviour and can cause a great deal of nuisance and distress to local residents.
Squatting is a major issue in the Philippines, especially in industrialized areas of the Philippines, including Metro Manila.
Squatting gained notice after World War II, when people built makeshift houses called Barong-Barong inside abandoned private plots of land.
Squatting is broadly an economic issue in France, particularly in Paris, one of the costliest cities in Europe.
Squatting can also take place for campaigning purposes, such as the Anatopia project, which protested against a Mercedes-Benz test track.
Squatting has no major tradition in Ireland in part due to strong property rights which favour the owner of the property.
Squatting had largely been confined to major cities until the construction of Ghost estates across the country.
Squatting gained a legal basis in the Netherlands in 1971, when the Supreme Court ruled that the concept of domestic peace ( huisvrede ) ( which means a house cannot be entered without the permission of the current user ) also applied to squatters.
On October 1, 2010, squatting was finally outlawed in The Netherlands after the Squatting Ban Bill was passed into law by both houses of Parliament.
Squatting of empty lots with shanty towns became popular in Spain in the 1960s and 1970s as a result of the shortage of urban accommodation during the rural exodus.
Squatting is a criminal offence in Scotland, punishable by a fine or even imprisonment, see Trespass ( Scotland ) Act 1865.
Squatting has also been used with political purposes, with more of one political parties promising existing squatters to legalize their situation if they support their candidates in the elections ; or sometimes with the purpose to serve as human obstacles for another party, occupying the space that was going to be used for constructing public buildings or parks.
Squatting gives you a chance to think about things other than how you are going to pay the rent and ways to contribute to the world.
on and our
`` From now on, Sally and me and her folks aim to give you our turn when it comes up and fall in behind you and Rod's outfit ''.
I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.
But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.
Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.
I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.
hot-colored verbenas in the corner between the dining-room wall and the side porch, where we passed on our way to the pump with the half-gourd tied to it as a cup by my grandmother for our childish pleasure in drinking from it.
We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.
But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.
So we must first analyze our present institutions with respect to the effect of each on man's major needs.
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