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To her surprise, she found herself in a classroom that had been turned into a makeshift teahouse - complete with fancy tea sets.

A makeshift scheme was put in place in May to help countries that cannot otherwise borrow at tolerable interest rates.

Makeshift medical centers sprang up in an entertainment complex and a home improvement store.

The soldier soldiers also find make shift have found a makeshift operating theater theatre used to perform surgery on wounded fighters.

He dissolved the makeshift army and continued to serve as a kind of administrator for a short time, but he had never wanted to be a leader.

The makeshift settlements of Soweto show how much hard work is left to do.

He knelt there, letting the drip slowly fill up his makeshift "cup, " as the sun beat down on his little back.

He said he'd seen several bodies and many wounded people at a makeshift hospital at a mosque.

A teenager was caught trying to rob a store with a banana - then ate the makeshift weapon to destroy the evidence.

This makeshift knife is simply a piece of metal sharpened with a sandstone, but it may turn out to be extremely.

Herzog told reporters the outposts, which often consist of just a few trailers and makeshift structures, are a blight on Israel's image.

Soon afterward, the parrot flew to the magician and perched on the edge of the makeshift raft and stared at the magician. And stared.

He began to preach from a makeshift church in Azusa Street, in a run-down part of town.

As a young boy, Edwards is said to have preached sermons to his playmates from a makeshift pulpit he built behind his home.

Reports out of Britain state authorities have found a makeshift bomb factory in Scotland.

Police move through a makeshift kitchen, known as the Thunderdome, at Occupy Denver, smashing as they walk.

Lastly, the pilots were found on the passenger seat, which had been fully reclined to form a sort of makeshift bed.

Built "green" back in the '80s, it had the ancient, makeshift infrastructure one would expect.

A protester with the Occupy movement sits in his makeshift shelter at a camp in Finsbury Square in London.

Senator Keg is now ubiquitous in Kenya, sold in every makeshift roadside bar, and is affectionately known as "Obama" .

In other words, solutions by the poor people need not be cheaper, need not be, so-called jugaad, need not be some makeshift arrangement.

Jamie Lee, a student washing cups in a makeshift kitchen, says the camp is "the beginning of the end of global capitalism" .

This is just a makeshift plan for the moment; we may work out a better one.

This would not demand a serious redesign because every car already has a makeshift air compressor in the form of the engine itself.

Six days after the quake struck and with the death toll now standing at 294, masses were held in makeshift chapels set up in tent cities.

Mother cooked simple meals in a spare bedroom she had turned into a makeshift kitchen.

They say that they were effectively floating down the Tigris and that they were caught up on a makeshift portable dam.

Children play basketball with the makeshift basket made of a washbasin by themselves, Yaoshan Township, Tongxin County, Ningxia, China.

Mother cooked simple meals in a are bedroom she had turned into a makeshift kitchen.

A static fortification made out of the nearest material that comes to hand, GLA infantry can be stationed inside this makeshift bunker.

After helping a mother and her infant off a makeshift raft, an exhausted Magallanes was lost in the water, his body recovered the next day.

His party, itself a makeshift coalition, has only a fifth of the seats in the lower house and a third in the upper.

Mr Liu is one of many residents who responded by setting up a makeshift jelly operation, mostly using the brand name "Universal" .

The fire broke out in a makeshift wooden shelter, which housed 33 Chinese workers, in a China-Russia joint business venture.

Welds and power routing and systems interfaces, even accounting for the fact that it was alien, all seemed so makeshift.

It took the badly burned Henry a week to die in a makeshift Memphis hospital.

We love the "highly effective" makeshift silencers which movie characters cobble together on the spur of the moment.

A makeshift memorial urges residents of Shanghai not to cry as they remember the fire victims and push for countrywide safety reform.

With no one allowed to hold funerals, bodies are being stored in makeshift morgues.

The peasant family is cramped tightly into a small makeshift shack in a favela, or squatter slum.

From her makeshift desk in one corner of the living area, she kept detailed records of all claim activity.

A miner bought food from a makeshift shop set up in the trunk of a car near a roadblock by striking miners.

Use of ladders or makeshift devices on top of scaffold to increase its height or to provide access from above is prohibited.

A cousin of Kanchana's, his wife and three children were killed, with about 20 others, when an army shell hit their makeshift bunker.

Syrian government forces are setting out to strike the city's makeshift clinics, where the floor is already slick with blood.

She was squatting on the floor of the classroom we were using as a makeshift clinic.

People were said to be too terrified to take the wounded to government hospitals, instead treating them at home or in makeshift hospitals.

It appears easy when you watch someone else winning but, when you step up to have a go at the makeshift table, you keep losing.

In different parts of the small country vigilante groups have set up roadblocks and taken up makeshift arms, often on a sectarian basis.

In Misrata, at least 47 people also were wounded in the fighting, during which Mr. Gadhafi's forces fired on a makeshift trauma center.

The Tamil Tigers said the makeshift hospital in Mullivaikal in the rebel-held enclave was hit on Tuesday morning.

Other herders crest the rise on their ATVs, driving hundreds of thundering reindeer into a makeshift stockade.

Makeshift memorials like this one have appeared as the city mourns its loss.

At the school gates, some parents have left their children's identifications cards as a sort of makeshift memorial.

Some of the prisoners are dangerous individuals. A "contraband board" displays makeshift weapons confiscated from detainees.

Peasants retained a natural relation of economy and consanguinity. So they regarded going out for work as makeshift.

Both of these structures give you a Black Hand Squad when sold, which when loaded into the APC, gives you a makeshift Flame Tank.

Ahead of the deluge, some intrepid homeowners tried to save their houses by building makeshift earthen levees.

As water rises, locals use a makeshift pedestrian bridge to help them supply and evacuate in the Hunza River Valley in northern Pakistan.

A victim of the bombing in Hiroshima lies in a makeshift hospital located in one of the remaining in bank buildings in September of 1945.

A man mourns for his relatives at a makeshift memorial at the scene of a deadly fire in Shanghai on November 18, 2010.

Unable to sleep one night, she went for a walk, ending up near the makeshift barn her neighbors helped her build.

El Ekhetyar said residents told him that the Syrian army is also targeting refrigerator trucks which are being used as makeshift morgues.

it'll do for a makeshift, I'm bound to say.

Workers are rushing to complete a makeshift levee by packing dirt on top of an old railroad bed.

Inside, rooms are dark and empty except for a few broken chairs and makeshift desks.

The second time, she received a makeshift ceremony a year after the original race.

My first memory is of awakening in a makeshift bed, dried snot caked in my nose and mouth, under a blanket of reeds.

But the move has triggered an exodus of nearly two million civilians with some 200, 000 ending up in poorly-equipped makeshift camps.

People left homeless have been resettled in makeshift homes and tents, while electricity and telecommunications have been restored.

Displaced from other parts of Iraq, these people have taken up shelter in makeshift houses on the otherwise deserted grounds.

The soldiers also have found make shift a makeshift operating theatre used to perform surgery on wounded fighters.

During the day, people walk around pushing their belongings -- including their children -- in makeshift wheelbarrows.

Therefore makeshift arrangements will have to be found.

Makeshift checkpoints sprang up, with litter bins, bricks, gates and uprooted lamp-posts used to block cars.

makeshift The refugees slept in makeshift tents at the side of the road.

The Taliban, when they captured the city in 1996, dragged the former president from his makeshift home and executed him.

At the time, Tompkins Square Park, across the street, was teeming with homeless people living in makeshift shacks.

Workers arriving for the early morning shift cast uneasy glances at the makeshift graveyard outside the heavily guarded wrought -iron gates.

Those bundled back to Laos this week had drifted to another makeshift camp in Phetchabun province, hoping to claim international asylum.

Volunteers organized makeshift clinics and security checkpoints, and no pro-Mubarak supporters were allowed in, The Guardian reported.

Mr. Duffy and his team picked their new colleagues in a makeshift conference room that also housed computers.

Makeshift bamboo bridges span small waterways all over Bangladesh.

Tens of thousands of people held candles aloft in a public park and laid a wreath at a makeshift memorial.

Some of the girls built makeshift tents, blue specks that can still be seen tucked high into the mountainside, a wide distance from town.

Parts of their makeshift raft and some of the their letters were found on nearby Angel Island.

Other waste materials were dumped haphazardly in makeshift excavations either at the factory side or throughout the country side.

But for many of the living, there is only misery. Survivors with nothing and nowhere to go, they huddle together in makeshift tents.

most of the sound comes from brunch-goers on makeshift patios, and an unsettling quiet surrounds downtown Raleigh.

Chinese people bring flowers to place at a makeshift memorial at the scene of a huge fire in Shanghai on November 18, 2010.

Makeshift medal ceremonies often have no podium, no anthem, and little fanfare.

crossed the river on improvised bridges; the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear; the rock served as a makeshift hammer.

A few sat on the secondhand furniture in the makeshift common areas and chatted with the protesters.

Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of Han Chinese protesters armed with makeshift weapons.

In a nearby makeshift clinic, we see a 13-year old boy with a horribly gashed and infected foot.

Within hours, a makeshift evacuation center at the San Bernardino International Airport was overflowing with fire refugees.

Steve Marlow sits under a passover, lonely, hungry, cold, and destitute in his makeshift shelter.

Mohamad Kabir sits in front of his makeshift shelter with his only surviving immediate family member, his son, Wajid.

The Bellevue morgue was overrun with bodies and a makeshift morgue was set up on the adjoining pier on the East River.

I saw bloodstains on the ground, and yellow port-a-potties go down, spilling their contents, turning into makeshift barricades.

Despite this, the indigenous population continues to live in the area, constructing makeshift homes and shops out of salvaged materials.

Candles in a makeshift memorial filled the drill field at Virginia Tech University in the wake of America's worst mass shooting.

UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming says heavy rains last week destroyed a number of makeshift shelters in the mission compound.

So once again, we moved relief goods across another makeshift bridge into the hands of more disaster victims who desperately needed them.

When the fighters returned to their makeshift camp in a local school, hot meals prepared by their neighbors were waiting.

Now, some have made makeshift tents from plastic pipes, while others conceal their store-bought shelters with blue tarps.

Oslo Cathedral became home to a makeshift shrine with hundreds going there to lay flowers and light candles.

In this photo, a crowd gazes at a makeshift shrine to a doctor and some nurses who were shot during the uprising.

But cars and trucks had been using a makeshift crossing to get from Tyre to Beirut and back.

A man holding a makeshift float swims with his pet dog in the Pearl River in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, to escape the summer heat.

Many passengers slept overnight in makeshift dormitories at Amsterdam's airport and Heathrow, Europe's busiest hubs for air passengers.

Dominican health teams are helping to treat earthquake survivors at a makeshift hospital in Jimani, on the border.

Makeshift buildings lean precariously over the lanes, and labourers hurry home through the dirt after 12 hours of toil.

That outpost, Glid Station, was soon spied upon by a makeshift Separatist base, but both installations were wiped out by the native Talz.

The makeshift altar was promptly surrounded by a ring of police buses and later destroyed by conservative groups.

Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange.

Most of those who survived are living in makeshift tents and hastily-built government 'barracks'.

Different stores in the mall offer players an endless supply of makeshift weapons including a shovel, nail gun, chainsaw, and lawnmower .

Shops, businesses and government offices in Bangkok cower behind makeshift concrete parapets and piles of sandbags.

The French news agency AFP is reporting more than 50 charred skeletons at a makeshift prison in the south of the city.

Frilly underwear is draped in a corner and hair clips hold back makeshift privacy curtains on the bunks.

Dozens of Israeli settlers have held violent protests against government removal of makeshift settle outposts in the West Bank.

the earthquake has reduced many homes to debris in el salvador . people build makeshift shelters from cloth and plastic covers.

Chinese construction worker in a makeshift tent in Bucharest, Romania.

with roman hotels and guest houses already full , makeshift shelters are being created for visitors at sports grounds.

Instead of eight screens and a telephone turret with direct lines to our brokers, we planned to take on the world with makeshift equipment.

improvised a dinner for the unexpected guests; improvise a makeshift tourniquet.

You can use the index card, folded in half, as a makeshift shovel. Place the stones in the jar and screw the lid on.

Inside a hilltop sports arena that serves as shelter, morgue and makeshift office, Sato sits red-eyed behind a small desk.

Ms. Sasaki staffs the help desk in the gymnasium, the urban center of this makeshift town.

In the arrivals concourse, there were blue emergency sleeping-bags and makeshift cardboard mattresses.

suggests that citizens construct makeshift fallout shelters using used furniture, books, and other common household items.

French police have closed down a makeshift shelter for illegal immigrants in northern France just 24 hours after it was opened.

Many refugees are sheltering under makeshift tarpaulin structures.

Scenes of chaos were reported at the makeshift hospital that the demonstrators have set up within their camp.

Ram Ramgopal joined them in a makeshift school where lessons help distract them from losses.

Such makeshift arrangements make it difficult to find, assess, and reuse assets quickly.

A woman carries a child at a makeshift shelter in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, July 27, 2011.

Emergency medical treatment is provided at this makeshift outdoor surgical ward at Port-au-Prince General Hospital.

They have been given shelter at government houses, makeshift tents and places of worship nearby.

At a makeshift hospital, her left leg was deemed beyond repair and amputated just below the knee.

She had stumbled across a makeshift torture chamber.

There were trams, orderly queues, makeshift picture houses and smoking factory chimneys.

Rescuers in Haiti worked to clear rubble from roads, build makeshift hospitals and remove bodies from the rubble.

A father holds his daughter awaiting treatment at a makeshift trauma facility.

In a makeshift clinic he encountered a Belgian medical team being evacuated in a UN bus.

Not far away other earthquake survivors wail in agony in a makeshift hospital.

The constant fighting has internally displaced more than 1. 5m people, with a third living in dire, makeshift camps.

Several hundred civilians, their homes in ashes, huddle under makeshift shelters.

A tsunami survivor rests in a makeshift shelter in a gymnasium in Ofunato, Japan.

A child runs away from fumigation smoke at a makeshift camp for earthquake survivors in downtown Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.

A child holds a piece of bread in a makeshift shelter.

With local and foreign aid groups already reluctant to support the new makeshift camps, arguments loom.

A makeshift bed was rigged up for the sick person.

Army officials have blamed such incidents on impostors dressed in makeshift fatigues.

The freeway became the occupation force's makeshift runway, and the unfinished tunnels, their bunkers.

But it's a big improvement over some of the makeshift balls the kids create from things like old plastic bags.

Villagers stranded by a recent typhoon make their way across a makeshift bamboo bridge in Hsinfa village, Taiwan.

Makeshift restaurants sprang from the earth, grills piled with chicken legs and wings, vats of rice and ugali porridge.

People left flowers and candles at a makeshift memorial in Wroclaw, Poland.

Makeshift encampments of people who don't have permanent homes have long existed on the margins of many U. S. cities.

In this Kenyan slum, his photographs were printed on waterproof vinyl and doubled up as makeshift roofs.

This would likely be the case if you're using PHP for caching or even to create a makeshift proxy server.

A makeshift floral tribute has been left at the spot where he was found. Every few minutes, another incoming flight passes overhead.

Flowers are placed at a makeshift shrine dedicated to Steve Jobs in front of an Apple store in Santa Monica, California, on Oct.

Pakistani women and children wait for food distribution at a makeshift camp for flood victims in Sanghar on Sept.

People attend an Afrikaans Sunday service in a makeshift tent church at a squatter camp in Krugersdorp on March 7, 2010.

stuffs it into old nylon stockings and creates makeshift oil absorbers called 'booms'.

At dusk, makeshift stalls in the market offered spicy raw papaya salad and fried Mekong River catfish.

clogged with the traffic of shopping carts through makeshift living rooms.

Many visitors make the pilgrimage here, to deposit flowers at makeshift shrines, view the site, or simply pay their respects.

And crude machines are replacing bare feet as macerators, while washing machines are being used as makeshift centrifuges.

Also of note were the two flowers that he planted next to the makeshift grave.

They build makeshift shelters from twigs, cardboard, and scraps of old clothing.

MAKESHIFT SOAP DISH: The plastic razor-blade covers that contain 10 disposable razor blades when empty make great bar-soap dishes.

An Indian woman prepares food for dinner at a makeshift home in New Delhi, India.

makeshift A temporary or expedient substitute for something else.

Garbage piles up Monday outside a makeshift camp for displaced residents in Port-au-Prince.

Above, a woman cooks dinner outside her makeshift home on Feb.

Reviving old newspapers as makeshift lampshades.

With the backup makeshift life in waiting.

Some doctors arranged makeshift surgeries in private homes.

John found that makeshift entertainment broke the monotony.

For many centuries, Native Americans pulled turquoise from the earth using antlers, horns, hatchets, and other makeshift tools.

There more business is done on regional and global energy markets than in makeshift market stalls.

Rural education is very backward, they in makeshift classrooms, no advanced teaching facilities.

The soldiers were rigging up a makeshift bridge.

A crowd gathers at a makeshift memorial for Steve Jobs at the Apple headquarters on October 5, 2011 in Cupertino, California.

Makeshift weights such as tools, pipe protectors, bits, etc. should not be added to the counterbalance weights.

Already, the survivors of China's earthquake are putting together their own makeshift families.

"I don't see why she should have everything when there are so many who have to make do with makeshift weddings. "

Haitians wait in line to get water at a makeshift shelter in Port-au-Prince.

He and his team stayed there for 22 days until the first makeshift hospital was completed.

It is thought that it was first played with makeshift equipment on dining room tables.

The film evokes the chaos in the makeshift hospitals and the desperate search for family members.

Lafeu is hardly a part that can be acted: it comes right if the right man is available: if not, no acting can conceal the makeshift.

A family of scavengers rests after a day's shift on the tip with their finds contained in the bags outside their makeshift home.

Some had spent days living in makeshift shelters in the hope of getting the prized tickets.

Students eat huddled around makeshift coal burners for warmth.

People are coming up with makeshift ways to do something similar.

Makeshift cookers also catch fire easily, maiming and killing.

Men in white prayer caps ferried the dead and injured away on makeshift stretchers.

Many are living in school buildings or in makeshift roadside shelters .

In our school, each class selected four students to stand around a makeshift Mao altar in four-hour shifts.

A man paddles a makeshift raft through a flooded area in the suburbs of Bangkok October 20, 2011.

an untreated disease; the untreated wounded lay on makeshift cots.

Thirty-seven other suppliers improvised tooling systems and set up makeshift assembly lines to make the needed part.

Many are living in fear under difficult conditions in makeshift camps.

The locals are eating lunch in makeshift kitchens down grungy back alleys.

Across the earthquake zone, some still live in makeshift shelters of planks and canvas.

At a makeshift clinic we saw the injured and the very ill lying on cots outdoors under a large tent.

A few cushions formed a makeshift bed.

The earthquake has also destroyed or damaged as many as 4m homes and many of the owners are now staying in makeshift camps in nearby towns.

After the ceasefire, we worked as nurses in the makeshift hospital in the university.

He sat on a makeshift bed with a book .

Boys with wooden sticks man makeshift checkpoints.

A girl cries after her father beat her in their makeshift home at a squatter camp in Krugersdorp on March 12, 2010.

All you need to get started is a ball, a couple of makeshift goals, and a passion to play.

Spokesman Chris Lom says there are 450 makeshift camps dotted around the country.

Is scaffold free of makeshift devices or ladders to increase height?

At Camp Leatherneck, cases of bottled water are piled high under a makeshift shelter on Jan.

Combine unlit smoker and matches to get makeshift smoker .

We butted two boards for a makeshift bed.

Men prepare ground for makeshift shelters Monday in Port-au-Prince.

Red Shirt demonstrators watch Thai soldiers from behind their makeshift barricades on Friday, May 14, 2010, in Bangkok, Thailand.

Makeshift tents sit amid sturdier ones at the nursing home.

The school is a bunch of makeshift shelter houses. The noise of bulldozers and pile-drivers accompanied our lecturing.

The accommodation for the press was makeshift at best.

A young flood survivor cools herself with water at a makeshift camp in Nowshera, Pakistan on August 5, 2010.

As we skulked back to the makeshift garage, I contemplated my luck.

Namie's town hall has decamped to makeshift offices in Nihonmatsu.

'They say there's help, but it doesn't arrive, ' said Henock Volmidor, an unemployed hotel worker, at a makeshift refugee camp on Monday.

A young nomadic woman, who had earlier tucked me into my makeshift bed on the floor, snores loudly in my ear.

Evacuees exercise at a makeshift shelter in Minamisanriku, northern Japan, March 15, 2011.

They performed on a makeshift stage of wood planks .

So, new arrivals are forced to live in squalid, makeshift conditions on its periphery.

A man pushes a girl on a makeshift raft down a flooded road in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata July 3, 2007.

Makeshift tracks were laid on the streets to speed up rubble removal.

A makeshift shrine in Shanksville, Pa. , marks the site where United Flight 93 crashed.

using a makeshift crossing to get from Tyre to Beirut and back.

Early Sunday morning, Uzzle, happily stuck at Woodstock, left his makeshift tent with two Leicas strapped round his neck.

The school is a large room with makeshift benches, three blackboards and an outside play area.

People receive emergency clothing aid at a makeshift shelter in Fukushima, March 15, 2011.

Create a makeshift solution to recharge the battery and start the car.

Students climb the rope on the makeshift apparatus erected by themselves, taken in 2007 in Abuhaluo village, China.

They are camping in makeshift tents and fashioning bamboo rafts.

Get a stepladder instead of climbing on a makeshift scaffold such as a chair or table.

The mayor sees them when he can, but most nights he sleeps on the floor beside his desk in the makeshift command center.

Most are small-time and relatively makeshift, but some are substantial and well established.

A scene from the Dolo camp taken from inside a makeshift house.