Sentences with phrase «major rescue operation»

The verdict came nearly two years after OHS mounted a major rescue operation to help animals in a breeding facility owned by Rainier resident Catherine Setere.

Willow was rescued along with hundreds of other cats during a major rescue operation in North Carolina.

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More than 100 people are still missing, while the head of the country's search and rescue operation Major General Sudantha Ranasinghe said crews are not expecting to find more survivors.

A major search rescue was launched but more than 20 hours later the men had still not been found and the operation has been scaled back.

But Ms. Conlin and the others at the press conference argued the state attorney general plays a major role in defending abortion - rights cases, such as litigating efforts to interfere with access to abortion clinics, as occurred during the late 1980s with «Operation Rescue» protests led by controversial anti-abortion advocate Randall Terry.

Over the past 25 years he has performed many different tasks, and is currently the lieutenant of operations, participating in four or five major rescues a year.

The ASPCA Field Investigations and Response team frequently responds to natural disasters, including other major events like Hurricane Irene and the Joplin, Missouri, tornado in 2011, Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, in addition to being called upon by state and municipal governments and other animal welfare partners to lend expertise during large - scale animal rescue operations.