Sentences with phrase «as relief efforts»

As relief efforts make their way out from San Juan, local churches serve as a crucial connection point for spiritual and physical support.

As expected, hurricane - ravaged Texas experienced the bulk of the increase as relief efforts were underway.

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Diamandis sees such a system as being helpful in disaster relief efforts, when sending in human rescue teams might be too risky.

Its European creditors decided on Wednesday to suspend the implementation of short - term debt relief measures after the Greek government announced additional spending on pensions - an action that European partners deemed as «unilateral» and disrespecting the efforts agreed under the country's 86 billion euro ($ 89.75 billion) bailout program.

«Our sense is that the political embarrassment of health care failing will serve as a driver for the GOP to redouble its efforts to enact tax relief in this Congress.»

As Southeast Texas continues to deal with disastrous flooding and the fallout of a Category 4 hurricane, people from around the world are looking to donate money for the relief efforts.

Over the last five years, the organization has worked with some of the most well - known international relief efforts, such as Medic Mobile and Save the Children, helping them to add Bitcoin to their donation streams and running fundraising campaigns aimed at people in the Bitcoin community.

Google (GOOG) has set up a web page with a search function for missing persons, as well as links to official government information on the disaster and the relief effort.

As Vox's Yochi Dreazen reported from Puerto Rico, the power losses are «significantly slowing the entire US relief effort, and preventing other vital parts of the island's battered infrastructure from coming back online.»

Over the last couple of days, as the enormity of this storm was being realized, we have been working to organize relief efforts for the Houston area with our friend Franklin Graham and the disaster relief organization that he oversees, Samaritan's Purse.

The press also noted that the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) donated C$ 500,000 as relief aid to earthquake survivors in central Taiwan and that Canada sent a team of civil engineers with expertise in building in earthquake zones, a medical team and others to assist in the recovery effort.

In their letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke, Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D - NY) and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D - MS) wrote, «It would be morally reprehensible to intentionally underreport the true death toll to portray relief efforts as more successful than they are.

In addition to pledging a total of $ 3 million in grant funding to recovery and relief efforts to assist pets and pet owners in need, the company's PetSmart Charities philanthropic arm coordinated deliveries of several truckloads of critically needed pet food and pet supplies as part of its Buy A Bag, Give A Meal program to communities deeply impacted by the hurricanes.

, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, came as White House and congressional leaders discussed a plan to immediately pump about $ 6 billion into federal disaster relief efforts.

As I just flew back from relief efforts in Houston, I'm reminded of what I talk about in 10X Rule — people underestimate the effort required to -LSB-...]

As Congress continues to consider hurricane relief funding, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget re-released its «A Mini-Bargain to Improve the Budget» proposal with a new plan to help finance disaster relief efforts.

And most of the fuel delivered as part of the relief effort was stuck in San Juan because roads weren't passable and truck drivers couldn't get to work.

And, tragically, as Carmen Yulín Cruz, mayor of Puerto Rico's capital San Juan, asserted in an impassioned response to Trump, people may still be dying because the relief effort has been moving so slowly.

It is currently raffling a $ 90,000 2018 Freightliner straight truck as part of its «Big Truckin» Raffle» to aid its food relief efforts.

President Donald Trump on Sunday strenuously defended US efforts to bring relief to storm - battered Puerto Rico, even as one island official said Trump was trying to gloss over «things that are not going well,» two weeks after devastating Hurricane Maria left much of the island without electricity, fresh water or sufficient food.

Right after Hurricane Irma, I flew down to St. Thomas as part of the advance team for All Hands Volunteers to help set up their disaster response relief effort.

The satellites and technology also help aid workers as they coordinate relief efforts.

As Tesla continues to aid hurricane - battered Puerto Rico in relief efforts, CEO Elon Musk responded to a tweet which suggested that Tesla could fortify the...

The Daimoku President Ikeda is chanting is our great and boundless spiritual aid, and just as important as the other ways the Soka Gakki are active in relief efforts.

Meanwhile, relief efforts continue as workers try to find survivors...

For example, in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, hundreds of churches quickly formed the China Christian Action Love volunteer association to provide relief, which many disaster victims praised as besting government efforts in both speed and constancy.

«Motivated in large part by their religious traditions of protecting the vulnerable and serving «the least of these,» as Jesus instructed his followers to do in the Gospel of Matthew,» writes Eric Marrapodi, «World Relief and other Christian agencies like the Salvation Army are stepping up efforts and working with law enforcement to stem the flow of human trafficking, which includes sex trafficking and labor trafficking.»

Trump's administration is also doubling down on immigration enforcement with Kobach leading an effort to overturn President Barack Obama's 2012 executive action that granted temporary deportation relief and work permits to more than 700,000 undocumented people who immigrated to the United States as children.

But the term «relative» must be used here not only because the Mother Church has for years contributed substantial sums to relief efforts in wartime and emergency situations, such as the recent earthquake in Mexico, but because it continues to publish the Christian Science Monitor, in itself a far from negligible social commitment.

The only guard against a «parade of horrors» — that is, the corruption, morally speaking, of famine efforts by hidden, alternative and immoral objectives — is for famine relief to be undertaken as a multilateral, globally communal effort involving the U.S., the U.S.S.R., the Peoples» Republic of China, the petroleum - rich countries in the Middle East, and many of the richer western European countries.

Flying a planeload of supplies to Ja - pan without a concrete plan to unload them will likely mean that the supplies will not get to those that need them as soon as they could have, and will likely add more immediate stress to the relief effort.

As many of you know, my brother - in - law Dave, his wife Maki, and their family live in Cebu City, where they have been working closely with Samaritan's Purse in relief efforts.

«As a congregation, we help each other during the preparation time, pray together a lot more, and help on relief efforts after the event,» said Ríos, lead pastor of La Iglesia del Centro, a congregation of about 350 in Arecibo.

Nine churches in the Houston area served as temporary shelters for the city until survivors could be moved safely to other venues, such as the downtown convention center where officials are coordinating relief efforts.

Even as an non-Christian you've heard stories of Jesus healing the sick and the Christian Relief efforts today.

We produce high - quality, differentiated products for our consumers, and we use our expertise in food manufacturing, distribution and protein as a resource to help hunger relief efforts around the world.

So it was a relief to learn that, as news of the Trump administration's efforts to bully Canada and Mexico into an unhealthy NAFTA submission went international, Canada's chief NAFTA negotiator, Steve Verheul, publicly stated that Canada will not agree to any such labelling ban.

We also host canned good drives and prepared meal packing events where we leverage the Harvest program as an extension of our overall hunger relief efforts.

We know that empowering our restaurant team members as frontline leaders in the local hunger relief effort will only strengthen their role in the program and allow them to engage customers in their restaurant's Harvest story.

To assist with Typhoon Yolanda (also known as Typhoon Haiyan) relief efforts in the Philippines, Hormel Foods provided an opportunity for company - matched contributions from active employees.

Hopefully the Astros and their families will be able to reunite as soon as possible, and the players will soon be able to help with relief efforts firsthand.

Relief efforts are already underway to shelter, feed, and care for those injured or evacuated in the storm, and they will presumably continue at full strength for the upcoming weeks and months as the city recovers.

While the visitors spurned their chances, including a late effort from Scott Dann, the three points would have come as a huge relief for Garde and his men as they bid to make an unlikely escape from relegation.

Unilever Nigeria has donated relief materials to the people affected by the recent flooding in Benue State as as part of its efforts to make sustainable living commonplace.

They will instead make stops further west, including hard - hit Corpus Christi, for briefings on relief efforts as catastrophic flooding has crippled parts of the massive state's southeast.

Trump touted the response to Hurricane Maria as he attended the briefing on relief efforts, noting that the territory's officials «can be proud» of the relatively low death toll on the island compared to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The spokesperson insisted that no MTA funds had been spent on the bridge lighting project, and when questioned about the work that had already taken place so far, the spokesperson told Politico that those funds were allocated as part of post-Sandy relief efforts.

He thanked UJA for partnering with himself and Councilman Levine to provide much needed supplies in this time of need and look forward to a continued partnership as we embark in this long - term relief effort to help Puerto Rico and all those impacted by the recent wave of devastating hurricanes.

But a helping hand from the White House, his role as point man in the relief effort following a freak blizzard, and Davis's lackluster campaign have conflated to keep Reynolds in the hunt.

De Blasio, who was a deputy under Cuomo in the Clinton administration's department of Housing and Urban Development, needs the governor to fund many of his agenda items, such as certain Hurricane Sandy relief efforts and his signature political goal of expanding pre-kindergarten to every child by next year.