Sentences with phrase «nations people survived»

The display indicates that only one in ten First Nations people survived exposure to the diseases brought to their territory by European traders and colonizers.

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-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

And we can see that nation (i.e., «people») ultimately trumps place, even if place usually helps to make the nation (such as ours), and even if the one nation in history that was capable of surviving dispersion was the one that always looked back to the one holy city not consecrated by human invention or delusion.

It would even survive the blighted nation's decades of post independence suffering marked by poverty and civil war, during which Wendo's brand of Rumba would serve to sustain the spirits of the people.

Now that «12 Years a Slave» has won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA for Best Picture, more people will learn the story of how a black free man living in New York was kidnapped in the nation's capitol in 1841, sold into slavery, and struggled 12 years to survive until his ordeal finally ended.

CNN just aired a new interview with that upbeat, optimistic centenarian James Lovelock, actually just 88, who says his usual stuff about it's too late to do anything about it, but adds that in his view, 500 million people will survive the Troubles, or what others have called «The Great Interruption» from 2050 to 3050, by taking refuge in the Arctic Basin, as well as in island nations such as the UK, New Zealand, Tasmania and a few «oases» in North and South America (maybe Colorado Rockies, Banff, Patagonia, Machu Pichu).

Through our global network of local writers, we are continuing our award - winning coverage of global and local environmental challenges, with a focus on the people for whom the ecosphere matters in a direct way: rural dwellers who have little means to protect themselves against adverse conditions; communities that need to switch to sustainable development in order to survive; poor women and children, who are the most vulnerable in natural disasters.Sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and The World Bank (WB), IPS also maintains the award - winning Tierramérica, a specialised information service on environment and development.

The second impact of this control relates to the economic dimensions of the disempowerment of Indigenous peoples: «colonialism continues to survive (within Australia) by virtue of the structural inequalities between First Nations and the Crown.»

We can not imagine that the descendants of people whose genius and resilience maintained a culture here through fifty thousand years or more, through cataclysmic changes to the climate and environment, and who then survived two centuries of dispossession and abuse, will be denied their place in the modern Australian nation.

In his new book «When money destroys nations» Haslam interviewed ordinary Zimbabwean citizens to find out how these people survived these turbulent circumstances.