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  • n  temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers

  • Some of the cantonment boards worked with the mayor.
  • Today, Sandhya sits batting away mosquitoes in a sparse wood cabin, part of a sprawling Maoist cantonment in the southern district of Chitwan.
  • But for those at the Dacca cantonment it is too late for abortion.
Quotes

  • Sheikh Hasina in The Daily Star
    When our army officers are facing acute accommodation crisis, she is enjoying a vast land of 180 kathas inside the cantonment. Though she has been allotted a big house in Gulshan,Hasina said.
  • Miran Shah in guardian.co.uk
    Swift action by the police yielded the arrest of the boy, who was brought into the cantonment area by accomplices who are being traced,Shah said.
  • Ban Ki-moon in Hindu
    Conditions at cantonment sites have been of great concern to the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN),particularly given the scheduled arrival in mid-June of the annual monsoon rains, Ban said.

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