Dacca
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Since then, former workers say, almost no one has been able to find a job in another garment factory, not once potential employers find out they used to work at Dacca Dyeing.
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2016
Alonzo Suson, director of the Solidarity Center’s Bangladesh program, told me that supervisors at Dacca Dyeing had told his office they were moving Gap’s orders to another Palmal Group factory because of the unionization drive.
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2016
The next claim came from Rajendralal De, an Indian chemist working in Dacca, then part of British India and now in Bangladesh.
From Scientific American • Jul. 5, 2013
The official Bangladesh radio in the capital of Dacca assured the country's 90 million people that the government was safely in the hands of Vice President Abdus Sattar.
From Time Magazine Archive
War was declared officially on December 4, and twelve days later, the Pakistani army, weakened by having to fight three thousand miles from its source of supplies, surrendered in Dacca.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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