• Then a ramshackle primitive port, San Juan has grown into a ramshackle party town whose waterfront is lined with several bars catering to young tourists.

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  • When we think of cybersecurity threats, most often we imagine a smelly and unshaven super-genius, holed up in a ramshackle studio apartment in a dodgy urban area, working through a high-speed Internet connection to penetrate the defenses of surrounding servers.

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  • The restaurant itself is a little ramshackle, but the sublime duck makes it a culinary experience to savour.

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  • In a ramshackle Sydney household, an Australian family gets on with its life, but only just.

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  • The widespread assumption is that the Democrats will nevertheless form a ramshackle coalition.

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  • He sleeps at RAM headquarters, a ramshackle schoolhouse in rural Tennessee, and he takes no income for his work.

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  • On one side was the perpetually white-suited Martin Bell, uncertain in person, running a ramshackle campaign, fragrant daughter by his side.

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  • In the past the Afghan army was a ramshackle affair, but these soldiers are better equipped and more organised than before.

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  • And he has suggested teaming Moldova up with the Russia-Belarus union, a ramshackle arrangement in which Russia trades energy for influence.

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  • In the event, Banco Opportunity did not bid for Tele Norte Leste, which was bought by Telemar, a ramshackle group of local investors.

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  • But, buoyed by its killer hook and Black Lips' obvious enthusiasm, it's a ramshackle gem that's more than the sum of its parts.

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  • The Catholic and Protestant sectors of Belfast are still separated by an ugly wall reminiscent of a wooden fence in a ramshackle baseball park.

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  • Many more, though, have been converted over the years into a ramshackle collection of cramped, one-storey homes, accessed via the narrowest of winding pathways.

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  • Along Vermont's dirt roads, well-heeled professionals often live in fine houses across the road from a rundown trailer or next door to a ramshackle farmhouse.

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  • So they fled to a ramshackle camp for displaced people.

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  • She lived with four other adopted children in a ramshackle, tin-roofed hut that would flood during heavy rains. ("We put bricks on the floor to walk around, " she says.) She still remembers selling all her toys at age 4 to neighborhood kids to help make ends meet.

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  • "But it was when he visited Genoa and he actually saw the kind of properties that merchants were living in and he thought, I am the richest man in Wales I need something better than a ramshackle of pile, and when he was in Rome he commissioned another architect to design, what is in effect, a palace of culture, " Mr Gammond said.

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