Sentences with phrase «uprooted by»

A sidewalk broken when a tree was uprooted by hurricane Irma serves as a makeshift skateboarding ramp for Joey Williams of West Palm Beach Thursday, September 14, 2017.

Both hardwood and softwood trees can be uprooted by gusts around 90 mph.

The document considers the legal challenges for persons uprooted by climate change both internally and across borders and explores how regional labour mobility arrangements can support climate adaptation.

Artist Statement «These images represent the universal language of uncertainty, hope, and anxiety any child or adult would have of being uprooted by war, poverty, or the promise of a better...

Not born of nature but made by human hands, the works, themselves contorted by the surrounding landscape, represent a society uprooted by industrialisation and modernisation, illustrating how progress can often come at the expense of cultural and societal well - being.

Best YA Fantasy & Science Fiction — An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir, Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, Uprooted by Naomi Novik.

Fiction / SciFi / Mystery books I greatly enjoyed in 2016 include The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin, Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt, Uprooted by Naomi Novak, and the Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin.

Children's literature that addresses real and fictional refugee experiences can expand readers» understanding of the people whose lives are uprooted by war.

The winner of Best Novel, Uprooted by Naomi Novik, was an Audiobooks.com Audiobook of the Week in episode # 337, chosen by Michael.

Beginning when the dust of the Second World War has only just begun to settle and rushing onward into the Sixties, Benjamin Johncock traces the path of this young couple as they are uprooted by events much larger than themselves.

Mohamed is a former refugee who returned to Somalia in 1995, where she launched an education program to assist people uprooted by the country's persistent conflict.

The International Rescue Committee works in dozens of countries around the world to aid individuals and communities uprooted by conflict or natural disaster and also has offices in 22 cities across the U.S. to help resettle refugees here.

Dunham was staying in a small coastal village called Unawatuna when she became one of the hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by a massive tsunami that hit Sri Lanka and other countries in the region.

Young Riley's Dad gets a tech job in San Fran and she feels uprooted by the move.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates that by 2050, about 200 million people will have been uprooted by climate change.

An illegal farm in High Bridge Park was uprooted by the Parks Department on Friday due to safety concerns.

The pop - up farm is about to be uprooted by the Parks Department which fears the food could be contaminated, officials said.

There is a conscious effort made by Christian theologians to capture the growing awareness among Dalits that they were «members of an ancient primeval society disinherited and uprooted by the alien Brahmanical civilization.

The UNHCR is still on the ground in Syria coordinating a massive refugee support effort supporting the lives of those uprooted by the conflict.

As you find your industry being uprooted by technology, consider turning to outsider talent who can help push your company forward, so you don't get left behind.

Not exact matches

CAYO COCO, Cuba — Uprooted mangrove thickets are still piled up behind the beaches along Cuba's north coast, interspersed with shards of concrete and steel and other flotsam left over from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Irma.

Uprooted trees and widespread flooding blocked many highways and streets across the island, creating a maze that forced drivers to go against traffic and past police cars that used loudspeakers to warn people they must respect a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew imposed by the governor to ensure everyone's safety.

He didn't care that by forcing people to return to their hometown to be registered, he was forcing people to go on long journey's, and possibly uproot their families, and lose their jobs.

He uproots family existence by telling people that they must be willing to leave behind familial structures and that marriage is decidedly this - worldly — while also grounding the union of male and female, and thus the biological offspring of that union, in creation.

For, Duff «looked forward to the supplanting of one civilization by another, the uprooting of Indian civilization and the substitution of the English.

Wintery seasons of deconstruction, uprooting, questioning, and tearing down are often followed by exciting, spring - like seasons of reconstruction, creativity, healing, and building.

In fact, every rabbi cited by my Jewish correspondents — from Rabbi Meir of the Mishnah, to Maimonides, to Rabbi Moses Cordevero — recited these blessings, which ask God to return most human beings to Him in wholehearted repentance, but also to «uproot, smash, cast down» the wantonly sinful.

If the experiences of today's church planters is anything to go by, there's every reason to believe that when it comes to urban areas, a long period of uprooting is slowly but surely giving way to life.

Although undoubtedly motivated by deep Christian commitment, Nyerere's form of «African socialism,» called Ujamaa, ruthlessly uprooted hundreds of thousands of people and, despite massive foreign aid, drove Tanzania into a beggary from which it has never recovered.

The Gospels bring this to fulfillment by announcing the Advent of God himself, the good news of the Son uprooted from heaven to pitch his tent in our flesh.

The Parmenidean «It is» in effect calls for an ethics of the eternal present; this is sustained only by a continual contradiction between, on the one hand, a detachment, an uprooting from passing things, a distancing and an exile in the eternal, and, on the other hand, consent without reservation to the order of the whole.

There can be absolutely no doubt that collective Israel — judged, smitten by Yahweh, disfigured, uprooted — has at least influenced the understanding of the meaning and mission of the Servant.

Uprooted people with no place in the world recognized and guaranteed by others, superfluous people who feel they do not belong to the world at all, these are the fodder of the movement.

The most remarkable aspect about this reaction is that the Moynihan report itself took great pains to identify white bigotry as the fundamental cause of the breakdown of the black family: «There is a considerable body of evidence,» says the report, «to support the conclusion that Negro social structure, in particular the Negro family, battered and harassed by discrimination, injustice, and uprooting, is in the deepest trouble.»

These were settled in other parts of the empire, their places taken by persons similarly uprooted elsewhere.

Filling a young mind with such nonsense, and worse, uprooting thier lives, subjecting them to the criticism of their peers, abandoning their futures, and in some cases, abusing them by telling them «they will not be saved», is beyond the pale and to me, boarders on child abuse.

Christians take for granted that the God who has revealed himself through Jesus Christ is active in the world through the power by which he sustains, uproots, and transforms men and nations.

A relationship characterized by reconnoitering the frontiers of the secular where, both in the name of the church and outside of it, the gospel can be declared in new ways and with a new display of its power to build and transform to plant and to uproot, to burn and heal.

They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted — twice dead.

He either could uproot mankind and begin again (since a morally perfect being can not forever endure moral evil) or ignore his own eternal character by allowing evil to continue.

I also saw instances in which a farmer's olive trees had been uprooted, barriers put in his way of entry onto his land, and boulders rolled down on it by settlers on the hilltops above.

The uprooting of the Golden Rice field trial by more than 400 farmers and sectoral groups last 2013 proved to be just, given the dangerous nature of the said product» said Panerio.

«The farmers» uprooting and continued resistance is justified, especially now in the light of new findings on Golden Rice which shows the weakness of the technology, the brunt of which will be shouldered by the farmers,» said Sharl Lopez, Executive Director of Philippine Network of Food Security Programmes (PNFSP).

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The National Academy of Science and Technology Philippines deplores the disruption of the multilocational field experiment by anti-GMO elements who uprooted the month - old transplanted golden rice plants in Pili, Camarines Sur on 08 August 2013.

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Marbella, who attended the protest at Pili, Camarines Sur, where the Golden Rice in a trial site was uprooted, says malnutrition is caused by poverty and needs to be addressed by support services, not genetically modified crops.

Aware that the greenest memories are often tended by native sons uprooted to some foreign shore, he searched out two former Pennsylvania back - country boys: Mr. Ralph Kirk, a consulting mineral engineer now of Birmingham, Ala., and Captain George Raring, USN, of Washington.

In the same interview, Terry ruled out playing for another English club, and hinted that he would be reluctant to uproot his family by following great friend Frank Lampard to America's MLS.

The Chibok abduction sparked international outrage and became the most infamous act by the Islamist Boko Haram group which has killed 20,000 people and uprooted at least 2 million in a brutal eight - year campaign that shows no sign of ending.