Sentences with phrase «people abandon their homes»

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«That's a big challenge for getting people back into their homes, especially in populated areas like Raqqa,» Pahon said, citing numerous ways in which fleeing ISIS fighters have booby - trapped abandoned homes with explosives.

Earlier this month, a false alarm that a ballistic missile was headed for Hawaii sent the islands into a panic, with people abandoning cars and preparing to flee their homes until officials said the cellphone alert was a mistake.

-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

The most retrogressive aspects of contemporary society are religions leaders who have zero (ZERO) influence over extremists whose unending violence proceeds unchecked under their own banners, whose churches routinely abandon their principle mandates — the poor, infirmed, jailed, the hungry — to writers who view the thirst of people without spiritual homes as «cop outs».

What you have to ask yourself right now is whether you are prepared to sacrifice lives - the lives of children being raised in poverty, the lives of patients being left to die on trolleys in hospital corridors, the lives of disabled people who are cut off and abandoned to their fates, the lives of the elderly left shivering at home or shamefully neglected in profit - driven care homes.

More than a dozen people rallied outside an abandoned home on the campus in West Seneca on Friday.

The agreement echoes an effort from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman who's been pushing for state law changes that would speed up the foreclosure process and put more people back into abandoned homes.

«There are those who contest that the UK has historically set far too much store by home - ownership and that we should be unconcerned that the average age of the first - time buyer is approaching forty but taken together, this trend, the spread of means - tested benefits, the regime for long term care, the damage done to private pension provision by one of Gordon Brown's earliest misjudgements, compounded by the current squeeze on household finances which has seen over a million people forced to abandon contributions to their pension funds, all amount to a massive turn away from a culture of property ownership with the responsibility and independence that goes with it.»

It ended with Kim suggesting that people might have to start a housing aid group for hermit crabs if a more acidic ocean begins dissolving the abandoned shells they use as their homes.

I contacted him after going through so many testimonies from different people how he help to bring back ex lover back, I told him about my husband that abandoned me about 6 months ago, and left home with all I had..

In order to thrive, Saroo, who doesn't know the way back home, finds himself adopted out to Australia of all places, to people who open their home and their hearts to those abandoned and lost, the opposite of what our monstrous administration would advocate.

In Halifax County, it is hard to distinguish between the rotting, abandoned shacks on the side of the road and the places some people call home.

So I think some system of gatekeeping will remain in place, precisely because most people, even if they abandon bookstores, aren't going to do so for the sake of reading amateur work any more than we've abandoned our Blockbuster stores for the sake of watching amateur videos and home movies.

In the hard - packed dirt of the midway, after the glaring lights are out and the people have gone home to bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn fragments, frozen custard dribblings, candied apples abandoned by tired children, sugar fluff crystals, salted almonds, popsicles, partially gnawed ice cream cones, and the wooden sticks of lollypops.

Apparently many of these people see abandoning a home loan as a business decision.

This road, the peaceful country road that takes me home, is apparently a favorite spot for people who want to abandon unwanted animals.

I had clearly been abandoned here, perhaps in the hopes that the nice people at The Animal League could help care for my medical needs and find me a home.

Please don't be one of those people who underestimate the cost of keeping a pitbull at home and who abandon their poor dogs in shelters.

From our outstanding Board of Directors to the amazing foster homes who take in these abandoned dogs, people who donate, help transport, help with numerous fundraisers, run the website and social media pages, and many other necessary aspects of the rescue behind the scenes.

They helped me find a solution for abandoned animals that were saved by kind people that wanted to do the responsible act of sterilizing an animal in order to keep and give a responsible home.

This rule should apply to all people who allow their cats to breed and then give the kittens away to homes where they may soon be abandoned.

We will shelter homeless, abandoned and lost animals, work to keep and place animals in safe, caring homes, and provide education and services to enhance the lives of people, their animal companions, and to strengthen the human - animal bond.

The Sanctuary for Senior Dogs rescues senior dogs abandoned in shelters and pounds; provides lifelong care for rescued senior dogs; adopts appropriate dogs into loving, permanent homes; develops programs that match senior dogs and senior people to their mutual benefit; fosters an awareness of our lifelong responsibility to our companion animals; and strengthens the bond between humans and animals by teaching respect and compassion for all living things.

So, the more people we can get to like our post will help the Puppy Haven Rescue find loving homes for abandoned dogs in the Tulsa area.

I wish «reputable» breeders would give breeding a break while this economy is so bad, and so many millions of dogs are being abandoned from people losing jobs and homes.

Without people willing to take lost or abandoned animals into their homes, many of the wonderful dogs and cats we see on a daily basis wouldn't be here.

You'll be joining hundreds of other people dedicated to finding homes for abandoned pets, rescuing abused and neglected animals, and preventing animal abuse and overpopulation through education.

This legislation could be used by the SPCA to stop all the hundreds, perhaps thousands of kind - hearted people from taking in an abandoned cat and giving it a new home or advertising to find the cat's family.

There are millions of compassionate people who provide abandoned cats with food, love, and shelter in their own homes.

From rescue and nurture to adoption, ANBAR, together with compassionate people like you, is enhancing the quality of life for abandoned and homeless pets and giving them a chance to find their forever home.

People working in shelters have spent a lot of time and effort rescuing and resuscitating these abandoned animals, so they are more likely to be emotionally concerned about finding them a forever home.

As a private nonprofit animal welfare organization with a central mission to place companion animals in loving homes with compassionate people who will make lifelong commitments to them by accepting them as a member of their family, we give priority status to the intake of neglected, abused and abandoned animals over those animals whose owners are simply seeking to surrender them.

Our mission is to focus on helping people who rescue and care for stray and abandoned animals until an adoptive home is found.

The same day, an email appeared from a woman who had found a dog abandoned in a home when the people moved out.

OldDog Haven is a very small group of people with a network of others trying to provide a loving safe home for senior dogs abandoned at this stage of their lives.

Connect A Pet Rescue, Los Angeles, CA, is dedicated to helping animals in two ways: (1) through the rescue of abused, abandoned, injured dogs and cats and placement into loving homes that will last their lifetime; (2) by offering people a place to show their rescued animals after they do the angel work of saving an animal off the streets somewhere.

The group's mission is to protect homeless, abandoned and mistreated Great Danes and other dog breeds within our volunteer care organization; to work with area animal shelters and humane societies in rescue efforts to help place adoptable animals into safe, loving, forever homes; and to educate people about spay / neuter and the need for sterilization of all pets, proper health care of a pet, nutritional requirements, socialization and training.

But more often than not, some well - meaning person may mistake the cat as a stray or an abandoned cat, take pity on it and take it home.

Animal rescuers and shelter volunteers are compassionate people who open their hearts and homes to provide a safety - net for animals others may have abandoned and whom our dysfunctional shelters betray even further by killing.

Many times people jump to the conclusion that if a cat is outside then it must have been abandoned, when in reality, cats roam and by taking the cat to a shelter you are removing it from his / her home.

Husky Rescue S.A. Husky Rescue S.A. is a group of people devoted to the rehabilitation of Huskies of all breeds abandoned, neglected and people needing to re home them.

This post highlights the Bark Avenue Foundation and what it's doing to reduce litters through spay and neuter programs, how it's getting abandoned pets into good homes for a second chance and it's dedication to educating people.

We need trustworthy, responsible, financially capable people willing to open up their homes to an abandoned beagle.

The resourcefulness of the Mayans made sense to me because I knew they were the descendants of people who had abandoned their homes to make a new life in the forest rather than go down with the imploding Mayan empire.

Visit Old Kanyaka Ruins, once home to 70 people, sad testimony to this harsh country, abandoned circa 1867 due to a three year drought.

The home base houses other survivors that sleep and eat there, so players must scavenge abandoned towns for food, construction materials, weapons, medicine and more to keep these people in tip - top shape.

Nocturne also abandoned the traditional first - person view of the franchise, and had a unique plot that drove home the darker nature of the series.

It's an old abandoned mining town that has been taken over by lots of people living in trailer homes, old school buses and tents.

The interior of the «object» of the home, the objects that furnish these homes, the objects that absent people once used: chairs, beds, glasses, guns, medicine bottles, tools, tubas and record players are in the foreground, while reserved, watchful figures seem to be inside the walls that envelop us as we enter someone's long abandoned home.

Equally at home in museum settings — like Tate Modern, the ICA Boston and MCA Chicago, where he has mounted recent one - person exhibitions and projects — and in collaboration with mainstream rock bands like Blur and U2, his work crosses media and genres with quiet, computer - assisted abandon.