Sentences with phrase «aid of thousands»

Thanks to an emergency relief grant of nearly $ 50,000, the BC SPCA was able to set up temporary animal housing centres in Prince George and Kamloops, coming to the aid of thousands of people and pets who had been displaced by the fires and were unable to find pet friendly accommodations.

Years ago, Goldrick - Rab seized on a unique research opportunity when a philanthropic foundation offered to supplement the financial aid of thousands of lower - income college students in Wisconsin.

Maurer highlights Katharine's role in the Wright enterprise in this illustrated biography for young adults, written with the aid of thousands of documents from the Wright estate.

With the aid of thousands of skin biopsies and over a hundred kilograms of skin, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have observed how two subgroups of immune cell behave in healthy skin.

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Here, the first lady isn't afraid — and that's worth more than a thousand public service announcements,» one administrator of an AIDS clinic in D.C. told the Washington Post at the time.

Seven thousand Africans dying every day of preventable, treatable disease like AIDS?

Vocado works with thousands of financial aid sources to optimize funding for any type of higher education learning model.

It costs over a thousand dollars to hire lawyer, legal aid clinics can only handle a fraction of demand, and it's virtually impossible to file on your own.

TIME spoke to aid workers familiar with Aleppo to discover what daily life is like for thousands in the war - torn, eastern part of the city:

The different countries and aid organizations» resources are already stretched to a breaking point and failing to find accommodation for the hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants coming to Europe.

The good news: Aid workers have the lessons of Katrina to fall back on as they try to help the thousands of people displaced by this storm.

Mercy Corps team members are working tirelessly to provide lifesaving aid for hundreds of thousands of people affected by Syria crisis, and others living in conflict and crisis.

His ability to compute numbers without the aid of a computer or calculator, the skill to measure up a person's character from thousands of miles away, and the rational approach to investment and business may never be found in one person again.

A Christian charity's preparing to distribute aid to Aleppo in Syria as tens of thousands of civilians... More

There are thousands of other stories like this, from people working with those in Vietnam who are dying of HIV / AIDS to people who are simply having Christmas dinner with a friends who live on the street.

«And the thousands of volunteers in our country who will give up their time to make someone else's Christmas that little bit better: from faith inspired projects like the Churches Together initiative in my own constituency - to aid workers helping those in war - torn parts of the world.

Risking goverment shut down for three items that don't even affect the budget for a small miniorty radicals in a religion and the insane tea party knowing full well shut down will cause thousands of jobs lost and the end of aid for those who need it is completely ridiculous, why don't they care for the majority that voted them in and not a small insignificant group?

Once we have hundreds of thousands of Christians being bombed in the most densely populated Christian nation in the world the US would step in to aid the Gaza strip and prevent further bombings.

I've heard teachings on Genesis a thousand times and never have I heard some of the Near Eastern accounts that aid us in performing our own grammatical historical exegesis.

Let the libertines fix the AIDS epidemic, the soaring teen pregnancy rate, the soaring divorce rate, slow down the abortion industry, help the many thousands of single mothers who had the courage to carry to term.

Although undoubtedly motivated by deep Christian commitment, Nyerere's form of «African socialism,» called Ujamaa, ruthlessly uprooted hundreds of thousands of people and, despite massive foreign aid, drove Tanzania into a beggary from which it has never recovered.

Unlike other foreign aid, this is a renewable resource; as one family repays a loan, another receives one, multiplying the impact thousands of times over.

There are many more thousands who are still out of reach from aid organisations, who we are preparing to assist once they become accessible.»

«The remaining 96 percent is the routine but essential provision of food, medicine, clothing, school fees and related humanitarian aid to support tens of thousands of at - risk infants, children and youth living in extreme poverty.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

With bombs pounding mostly military targets in Baghdad 15 hours a day, and a humanitarian disaster looming in the rest of the country, Iraqi Christians and international relief agency officials fear that bottled - up aid may be too little, too late for thousands.

There is barely a passing mention of thousands of nongovernmental programs, mainly church - related, that are demonstrably effective in countering disease, feeding the hungry, and advancing development by building communities of mutual aid.

«This decision will save lives, will encourage the hundreds of thousands of men and women who will march on Washington this week [at the Jan. 27 March for Life] for the rights of unborn children, along with millions more around the country who believe that foreign aid should promote life, not end it,» stated Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), in a written release.

And that task is to prevent» by war, aid, diplomacy, and example» a new culture from being founded on the mythological value of the blood of six thousand dead American scapegoats.

Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako told Aid to the Church in Need: «Death and sickness are grabbing the children and elderly people among the thousands of refugee families spread over the Kurdistan Region who lost everything in the recent tragic developments while the ISIS militants are still advancing and the humanitarian aid is insufficieAid to the Church in Need: «Death and sickness are grabbing the children and elderly people among the thousands of refugee families spread over the Kurdistan Region who lost everything in the recent tragic developments while the ISIS militants are still advancing and the humanitarian aid is insufficieaid is insufficient.

Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines two months ago, and with hundreds of thousands of people still homeless, some aid workers fear the public...

Our Community Aid Program has restored thousands of acres of rainforest by farming only with shade grown farms, and planted our own coffee on our own organic farms.

Finest delivers to thousands of independent and chain grocers in the New York area including Pathmark, Shoprite, Waldbaum's, Associated, Stop & Shop, Rite Aid and A&P.

In grassroots programs involving tens of thousands of participants around the globe, visionaries are using athletics to tackle the most pressing problems of the developing world — from AIDS in Africa to violence in Rio.

And when mom dies a completely «natural» death from untreated HIV / AIDS, TB, Malaria, Cholera (the list goes on and on) the older children will have to start looking after the younger children resulting in thousands of child headed households.

Massage has been around for thousands of years to aid in rest and relaxation.

But unlike Skelos, who has transferred thousands of dollars to aid Republican Senate challengers around the state, Silver's filing shows that he has given mostly to Democratic clubs in New York City.

At noon, five months to the day after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Make the Road New York will hold a rally calling on FEMA and Congress to deliver the aid and resources thousands of Puerto Ricans desperately need to recover, FEMA Offices, 285 Fulton St., Manhattan.

But farmers have been forced to try to resume their work to help alleviate chronic food shortages that have left hundreds of thousands starving and dependent on food aid.

We collected tens of thousands of bottles of water, thousands of pounds of food, hygiene products, first aid supplies and more.

As more aid was delivered to help thousands of people trapped on Mount Sinjar in the north, Liam Fox attacked the «catastrophic complacency» of world leaders.

The $ 145.3 billion spending plan increases school aid next year by just under $ 1 billion (which school boards say is not enough) and over the next five years commits to build thousands of units of affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges, cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.

The daylong veto-fest was designed to follow through on Paterson's vow to quash an estimated 6,900 spending provisions added to the budget by a defiant Legislature this week, including $ 600 million in school aid and thousands of legislative pet projects known as member items.

It is expected to call for thousands of layoffs and massive cuts in school aid.

«When the AIDS crisis burned and ravaged its way through this community and thousands of gay men were literally dying, every day New Yorkers stood up... they organized, they put their bodies on the line... they forced the development of antiretroviral drugs and that's why me and many people are alive today.»

That very same day, less than five miles south, thousands of other New Yorkers will also be walking, through Central Park — part of the city's annual AIDS Walk New York.

At nearly the same time, about a thousand members of the city teachers union arrived in Albany to rally for more education aid and against Cuomo's plans, which include tougher teacher evaluations and more charter schools.

There have also been accusations aid was being diverted towards the army and away from the hundreds of thousands of people in dire need of relief in the devastated Irrawaddy Delta region.

``... His opponent, who has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money and gotten nowhere, is seeking to join the same New York City - dominated conference that enacted the job - killing MTA payroll tax, took the STAR rebate checks away from seniors and homeowners, and shifted school aid to New York City at Long Island's expense.»

The pro-Cuomo Committee to Save NY is backing up a recent TV spot supporting the governor's proposed education aid cuts with a mailer that accuses school superintendents of going behind closed doors and «taking money out of classrooms — but putting hundreds of thousands of dollars in their own pockets.»