Sentences with phrase «from boat person»

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Emergency crews plucked people from rooftops using aircraft, dump trucks, and boats as the floodwaters rose.

Private boat owners coming from all over to help evacuate people from homes around Houston.

Social media is full of stories of those with boats using them to rescue people from their homes.

The survey found that 68 percent of people thought a car or boat stolen from their property was covered.

Catholic Charities here has fed, clothed, sheltered many people, including a large population of refugees from the Vietnam war, many of them «boat people».

So will the reaction to the truth be just like that the people knocking on the boat trying to get away from the flood waters.

God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.

More than 100 people from the boat were taken to safety, including children, by Doctors Without Borders workers.

It's a greater fantasy NOT to believe that there is an all powerful invisible god somewhere in the universe who knows everything, can do anything, hears everyone's thoughts, etc, or that someone died and rose from the dead three days later (this same person was born of a virgin), or that someone spoke to god via a burning bush, or that one old man, who lived to be 900 years old, built a boat that held two of every animal on the earth to survive a worldwide flood?

«It was great to talk to people from all parts of the country, and no matter where we came from we were all in the same boat.»

In a phone interview from his boat, he said he wrote the book to «to encourage people that have wandered away or lost the confidence in the things that have been on their heart for years.»

Jesus got into Simon's boat, had it moved out a little way from the shore, and sat in it while he spoke to the people (cf. Mk 4:1; Mt 13:2).

The only thing that I have been offended of was from a children's coloring book of noah's ark where they are on a boat looking at the water at people drowning reaching for help.

Anyone who sends his or her children to a place where people believe that (i) the entire world was created in 7 days about 6,000 years ago, (ii) a guy lived in a whale, (ii) another guy got two of every animal on the planet on a boat, (iii) guy rose up from the dead and floated up into the clouds... should be banned from reproducing.

#Libya: Tragedy again today as #RedCrescent recover bodies of 74 people from a boat washed ashore near #Zawiya #StopIndifference #migration pic.twitter.com/YarPI 5mYEG

The U.N. refugee agency estimated that 1,500 people died or went missing at sea making the journey that year, based on distress calls from boats and reports from survivors.

@Taj if religion is the whole answer then why are so many poor people's from all over the world want too bring their religion that did not work in their home countries too the USA if their faith in their phony religion was working would not need too get on a airplane or boat why is so much human oppression in poverty man made religious people's or they blowing them self up with bombs

Updated 2/19/2016 Background The species Capsicum chinense spread throughout the Caribbean basin in prehistoric times, carried by indigenous people via boat from the Amazon basin to what is now Venezuela to Trinidad, and then through the Lesser Antilles to the Greater Antilles, and finally...

The species Capsicum chinense spread throughout the Caribbean basin in prehistoric times, carried by indigenous people via boat from the Amazon basin to what is now Venezuela to Trinidad, and then through the Lesser Antilles to the Greater Antilles, and finally ending up in the Yucatán Peninsula.

Jacki's (and now Melody's) Rich Sourdough Pancakes: 3 large farm fresh eggs 1 cup whole raw milk 2 cups of sourdough starter (can be straight from the fridge, does not have to be recently activated... this is how I almost always make it) 1 3/4 cup all purpose flour (makes a lighter pancake, but I've made it before with spelt flour, which was also pretty tasty, but heavier than most people like pancakes) 1 tsp aluminum free baking soda 2 tsp baking powder 1 1/2 tsp pink himalayan salt (you can use sea salt) 1/4 c. granulated sugar (rapadura, sucanat, whatever floats your boat) 1/4 c. raw butter, melted (I've used organic salted butter before, works fine) Also, for more health benefits, I add about 2 - 3 Tbsp melted coconut oil, which you can use instead of the butter or just use both (I totally use both).

This influx of tourists is good for the local economy, and since we can see the docked ships from our porch, we don't go into town when the hoards of «boat people» are there, so they don't bother us.

People in Boston care about their food, from New England seafood fresh off the boat to mindbending bistros and bars with attitude.

People from the surrounding areas are volunteering their time, their living spaces, and even their boats.

«Right now, there is no harbor for people visiting from Wisconsin or Michigan to just come and moor their boat,» parks Supt. Tim Mitchell said.

Tens of thousands of Ugandan Asians were saved from the tyranny of Idi Amin in the 1970s, while in the 1980s we accepted thousands of boat people fleeing Vietnam.

Thousands of «boat people», mostly from Africa, attempt each year to cross the Mediterranean in overcrowded and frequently unseaworthy vessels in order to enter the southernmost EU member states.

On this quest the state will open up fifty previously closed state owned lands so there will be more opportunities for hunting, fishing and boating for both in state people and tourists who come from out of state.

Apart from the press, no other person should join the boat.»

«I think, from a county standpoint, that all boats rise when people stick together,» he said, «and I think that's the lesson that's been learned here.»

I said that in my opinion, the people of the UK were receiving a mixed message from the Labour party because a minority of our MPs had chosen to appear on platforms with the likes of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson, prominently on TV hustings, and one even on a boat with Nigel Farage during the ridiculous Thames flotilla.

The «Only in Queens» Summer Festival will also offer a wide range of activities for people of all ages, including: • Guided tours of the New York State Pavilion's Tent of Tomorrow, the Queens Library Mobile Unit, the Queens Theatre and the Queens Museum; • Family - friendly fun including cultural performances, face painting, inflatable bounce houses, a Delta Air Lines Scavenger Hunt, activities run by the United States Tennis Association, and an appearance by Mr. Met; • Food and craft vendors offering a variety of international cuisine and merchandise for sale; • Exhibits of memorabilia from the original 1939 - 40 and 1964 - 65 World's Fairs, classic cars and a boat from the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival; • Virtual reality demonstrations by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the group People for the Pavilion and Queens - based RPGA Studio as part of the international ideas competition currently underway to solicit imaginative and creative public input for how the New York State Pavilion can best be adapted for public people of all ages, including: • Guided tours of the New York State Pavilion's Tent of Tomorrow, the Queens Library Mobile Unit, the Queens Theatre and the Queens Museum; • Family - friendly fun including cultural performances, face painting, inflatable bounce houses, a Delta Air Lines Scavenger Hunt, activities run by the United States Tennis Association, and an appearance by Mr. Met; • Food and craft vendors offering a variety of international cuisine and merchandise for sale; • Exhibits of memorabilia from the original 1939 - 40 and 1964 - 65 World's Fairs, classic cars and a boat from the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival; • Virtual reality demonstrations by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the group People for the Pavilion and Queens - based RPGA Studio as part of the international ideas competition currently underway to solicit imaginative and creative public input for how the New York State Pavilion can best be adapted for public People for the Pavilion and Queens - based RPGA Studio as part of the international ideas competition currently underway to solicit imaginative and creative public input for how the New York State Pavilion can best be adapted for public reuse.

The Erie County Health Department said in its email that people entering the water from their boats to get to the club and then returning to their boats to leave may not be considered swimming.

He likely would have been thrilled by the crowd of more than 100 people, the beautiful weather and mostly by the large flotilla of boats — including the Coast Guard, fire and rescue craft from Greenport, Shelter Island, and Orient, and the Suffolk County Sheriff's Patrol — in the harbor to pay homage to him, hospital president and CEO Paul Connor III said.

His current work involves writing software to help detect whales in the ocean as part of an effort to make whales more «visible» to humans, partly so that people will be invested in saving whales from boat traffic and other dangers.

Unlike Skoglund, Willerslev believes that this signature was brought by a group of people who migrated via Beringia, or possibly boated along the coast from Siberia to South America, around 13,000 years ago — a couple of thousand years after the initial, larger migration.

«You don't know other faculty or other people, so from the beginning you find yourself in this «you and your advisor on a boat» position,» says one postdoc.

Under the existing system, the public is unable to tell scratches from fatalities, boats from people or wobbegongs from great whites.

Other ancient mariners, he discovered, had ventured into stormier waters to the north: Some 21,000 years ago, people had paddled boats across 30 miles of choppy water from Honshu to Kozushima Island to fetch shiny black obsidian, a type of volcanic glass, for stone tools.

The boat was called the Esmeralda and was part of a fleet led by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, the first person to sail directly from Europe to India.

«In Arctic and Antarctic conditions we prefer to recover the Puma directly onto the deck of the ship rather than putting people over the side of the ship in a small boat to recover the Puma from the water.»

That analysis revealed very close genetic affinities with people living today in Cyprus and Crete, suggesting that farmers had first migrated from the Middle East to Greece and its islands by boat, before moving on to the mainland.

Also having extracurricular groups and activities (Amateur Drama Club plays, dragon boat...) that connects several different people from different cultures is an amazing feature of being a part of VBC campus.

Others take advantage of human misery by ferrying climate refugees across the Mediterranean in leaky boats, or by building fences to keep people from fleeing Bangladesh for India.

The past few days there were a lot of comments from people who are having serious troubles or difficulties, and it makes me think of how not so long ago I was in the same boat (going through a break - up, hate my job, hate my body, bad relationship with my mom, fighting with a friend) and it felt to me like it all happened at once and it would never end (i.e. depression).

We are shown a fantasy world of home - schooled children eating crawdaddies straight from the river, and the brave little warrior child gathering the animals to be fed, and of people of all races living together in rusted boats and alcohol - stocked tin houses.

... * Ed Lachman colors of Manhattan streets, 1977 — Wonderstruck... * On Molly Bloom not being Irish: preposterous dialog between Molly (Jessica Chastain) and Downey (Chris O'Dowd), Molly's Game... * Dunkirk: pale hand of a man drowning on boat... * «They're no longer persons, only body parts» — In the Fade... * Thelma: the baby under the divan... * The opening of Wind River: young Native American woman running barefoot against moon glaze on snow... * Mother and non-reincarnated deer, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri... * In Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, father (Kenneth Cranham) remembering Gloria Grahame from In a Lonely Place: «Gorgeous mouth.

You probably wouldn't have mentioned Rogue Trooper, a third - person shooter from 2006 from Rebellion, based on the 2000 AD character of the same name that just missed the boat on the just - launched Xbox 360 and arrived on the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Wii.

Yeah, because this looks exactly like Munich, which was exactly like Jurassic Park, which was exactly like Indiana Jones which was almost a copy of Schindler's List which was the blueprint for Jaws and that film directly influenced Catch Me if you Can which led him to make Minority Report which seemed to be another telling of Saving Private Ryan which was loosely based on the character from The Terminal who was in some way based on Djimon Honsou's character in Amistad who was on a boat, just like the captain in Hook which had a black person in it like The Color Purple which is a film about aliens or E.T.s (Extra Terrestrials) who started a War of the Worlds after many Close Encounters in 1941 with the Empire of the Sun...

But it is really useful for people who want to pull a trailer or a boat from water or load something onto flatbed trailer.

People do run dual - cab four - wheel drive pick - ups as family cars, but in the main those families have very specialised needs — out every weekend fishing from a boat, or caravanning or transporting horses in a float.