Sentences with phrase «devastated part of this area»

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Part of the SBA's congressional mandate is disbursing loans to businesses and homeowners in areas devastated by tragedy, such as where Hurricane Sandy barreled through the Northeast or in areas out West ravaged by wild fires.

But those are the only references in the statement for a saga that dragged on for months following the storm that devastated parts of the New York City metropolitan area.

«Atiku Abubakar urges all Nigerians to support the government at all levels noting that as a watershed year in the fight against terrorism, the attention of the nation would now focus on reconstruction and rehabilitation of the areas devastated by the insurgents as well as provision of critical socio - economic infrastructure in other parts of the country for development purposes.»

The federal government is now offering funding and resources to upstate counties devastated by the flooding along Lake Ontario this year, after President Trump declared parts of the region a federal disaster area earlier this week.

«In other parts of the U.S., this species has devastated cotton production and in many areas, especially in Georgia, it was not uncommon to see cotton fields literally mowed down to prevent this weed from producing seed,» Hager said.

The study site, Stardust Bay, faces a creeping part of the eastern Aleutian Subduction Zone, which is sandwiched between the rupture areas of historical earthquakes in 1946 and 1957 that generated tsunamis with devastating consequences to coastal communities around the Pacific Ocean.

I was part of the Katrina relief, where 50 or so dogs were transported out of the devastated area and into a safe environment.

Ebrington Barracks, which was built in the early 1840s, is a former British Army base, so it has a long history connecting it to the Troubles and to the devastating impact of Bloody Sunday, which took part in the city's Bogside area.

Every day of the fair, Japanese artists Ei Arakawa and his brother Tomoo (UNITED BROTHERS) are serving soup made from the vegetables grown in Fukushima, the area of Japan most devastated by the 2011 nuclear disaster, as part of Does This Soup Taste Ambivalent?

As Lacey's report shows, existing hybrid - solar storage systems provided power in some devastated areas of New York and New Jersey, and off - grid solar generators provided relief to many people without power as part of relief efforts.