Sentences with phrase «people displaced in»

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Judging by some of the comments the Times has received on its Displaced project so far, a number of people were touched by the feature in a way they likely wouldn't have been by a traditional photo series in the printed newspaper.

This is exactly the kind of thing that people sounded the alarm about in recent years — that robots are going to displace human workers.

Some 25,000 buildings perished in the fires, 20,000 people were displaced, and 90 % of San Francisco was destroyed.

In the wake of a historic and deadly hurricane season, an app called Zello Walkie Talkie has become the communication tool of choice for both people working to help in cleanup and first responder efforts, such as the Cajun Navy in Houston, and those affected and displaced by these stormIn the wake of a historic and deadly hurricane season, an app called Zello Walkie Talkie has become the communication tool of choice for both people working to help in cleanup and first responder efforts, such as the Cajun Navy in Houston, and those affected and displaced by these stormin cleanup and first responder efforts, such as the Cajun Navy in Houston, and those affected and displaced by these stormin Houston, and those affected and displaced by these storms.

He told The New York Times recently, «My assumption is this technology will eventually displace a lot of people in those warehouses.»

Giustra's current priority is to provide housing for displaced people who are essentially stuck in Greece.

While governments struggle with the best way to accommodate the massive influx of displaced people, business owners are also pitching in.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workerIn their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workerin poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

About 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, most of them troops fighting Hezbollah, were killed in the 2006 war, which displaced a million people in Lebanon and up to 500,000 in Israel.

The company built a business model based on using technology to displace low - skilled workers in an industry that many people have little love for.

Up to 12 million people could be displaced by the storm, which is packing winds of over 130 mph and expected to cause an 11 - foot surge in sea levels, according to the India Meteorological Department.

«There are a lot of displaced Minneapolis people and Midwesterners in New York City who have an incredible emotional connection to the brand,» Oberlander said.

Hurricane Katrina's calamitous reach spanned multiple cities, but it primarily affected New Orleans; nearly 20,000 people were displaced and relocated to the city's superdome, and 1,833 people died in the aftermath.

Natria's name was on a list compiled by FEMA of people displaced when Hurricane Irma barreled through central Florida in September.

Harvey, which came ashore on August 25 as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years, has killed an estimated 50 people, displaced more than 1 million and damaged some 200,000 homes in a path of destruction stretching for more than 300 miles.

America's hospitals were beset by an unusual number of calamities in 2017: Fires raged in Northern and Southern California; hurricanes displaced thousands in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico; the deadliest mass shooting in modern history killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others in Las Vegas; and an attack at a Bronx hospital in which a doctor turned a gun on his former colleagues, killing one and injuring six.

The council at the centre of the fire disaster says it will do its best to re-house families affected by the deadly fire in the borough but admits some could end up elsewhere in London - as hundreds of people have been left displaced.

The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

In a joint statement, the Foreign and Interior Ministers said: «We are providing aid to displaced people fleeing from the threats of Islamic State and who have sought refuge in KurdistaIn a joint statement, the Foreign and Interior Ministers said: «We are providing aid to displaced people fleeing from the threats of Islamic State and who have sought refuge in Kurdistain Kurdistan.

Christian Aid has joined with partners in India to provide aid for more than 350,000 people displaced by a huge cyclone in the country.

Today marks five years since the start of the Syrian Civil War and in that time, more than 4.7 million people have fled violence in the country and 6.6 million more have been internally displaced.

The commission's top recommendation to address the surge in displaced people is that the US government should raise the ceiling on the number of refugees resettled from 70,000 to at least 100,000, with «additional reserves» for the Middle East.

When a person is displaced into a radically different culture, he suffers acute distress, and when cultural patterns deteriorate through internal contradictions in a society or by external forces, the persons concerned undergo disorientation and disintegration.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who is also chair of Christian Aid, said: «This year we have seen extreme weather displacing millions of people in South Asia and bringing death and destruction in the Caribbean and the United States.

The 27 - year - old from Erbil joined the anti-persecution charity Open Doors UK in encouraging ministers to commit to helping refugees and internally displaced people return home, as IS is gradually forced out.

For many other scientists, however, and for people of a modernistic bent of mind who saw in the sciences «a new messiah,» or at least a directive of life displacing both religion and philosophy, this preoccupation with the immediacies to the exclusion of ultimates meant frankly a secularizing of life, that is, a relinquishing of all ideal or transcendent aspects which hope and wonder might evoke.

We found ourselves in Baghdad offering sanctuary to the displaced people.

In Syria alone, (by some estimates) more than 470,000 people have been killed in five years of civil war that has devastated the country, displacing millionIn Syria alone, (by some estimates) more than 470,000 people have been killed in five years of civil war that has devastated the country, displacing millionin five years of civil war that has devastated the country, displacing millions.

We pray for the diplomats, and those in positions of influence trying to bring about an end to conflict, and for the «little people» children in schools, people who've been displaced, those who seemingly aren't involved in either side of this bloody war, but whose lives will never be the same again.

According to Christian charity, Tearfund, it is estimated that since the beginning of the Mosul offensive, 920,000 civilians have fled their homes and close to 700,000 people are still displaced, with nearly half living in nineteen emergency camps.

The lie displaces «the undivided seriousness of the human person with himself and all his manifestations» and destroys the good will and reliability on which men's life in common rests.

No, but you do have a history of displacing entire races of people and blowing up women's clinics in the name of God.

Our sometimes tranquil circumstances can easily cause us to repress the memory of the millions of people both today and in the past who have been displaced, slaughtered and eventually forgotten throughout human history's painful transitions.

According to the index, the world has become less peaceful in the last eight years, and one of the consequences is that more than 50 million people have been forced from their homes as refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs).

Accounting for God's presence in any person without displacing some aspect of that person's humanity.

The century ended with about 21 million refugees around the globe, including about 6 million internally displaced people and more than 300,000 child soldiers (under the age of 18), girls as well as boys, engaged in armed conflicts.

This station has put together a consortium of businesses, schools and colleges, churches, hospitals, and community agencies, which already is helping reeducate people when they are displaced by «technology,» finding them find new jobs, training leaders in the areas of community services, and facilitating the discussion of common community projects.

The specific issue is whether in light of Cobb's general understanding of God's providential guidance we can view him as indeed present within individual persons without displacing their freedom and independence as self - determining subjects.

In this manner, Cobb suggests, God is able to be present within individual persons without displacing any aspect of their humanity.

There was an emphasis in Europe on rebuilding shattered societies and helping refugees and displaced persons.

The agency's first task was to try to help the legacy of refugees and displaced persons in Europe created by the Second World War.

Leon Gersten (at the far left end of the third row back) with other schoolchildren in a displaced persons camp in Germany after the war.

As displaced people, they have lost hope that they might eventually return to their homeland or survive in their present condition.

The Hebrew scriptures tell of a people forced to migrate beyond their own borders in search of food, displacing local gods with a God of the heavens, and recurrently finding themselves caught in the intrigues of warring empires.

This people who had the one God and a moral law were supposed to have a place, time, setting, home... to practice a more just society in, more just than those whom they displaced is usually the assumption or meaning.

Temporary hardships caused in certain industries by competition from foreign producers should be alleviated by direct economic assistance and by helping in plant modernization or the retraining and reallocation of displaced workers, and not by the imposition of import duties which prevent able and industrious people from reaping the rewards of their efforts.

Two million people have been displaced and hundreds have died in the Indian sub-continent following the worst monsoon rains to affect the region in half a century.

More than 200,000 people have been displaced in the past fortnight, including all the residents of Iraq's largest Christian town, Qaraqosh, and a large number of the Yazidi minority group.

Two million people have been displaced and hundreds have died in the Indian sub-continent following the... More