Sentences with word «uprooting»

Her piety is a desperate but empty gesture — another symbol devoid of content, another piece of culture uprooted from cult.

Vehicles that are parked or pulled - over outside can face damage from uprooted trees, downed streetlights or flying debris.

Steel maize plants, ceramic jerry cans, concrete chainsaws and wooden AK - 47s become symbols for the difficulties of surviving through subsistence in difficult economic conditions and evoke the idea of brutal uprooting of cultural heritage, political revolution and its self - perpetuating cycle of domination.

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.

Centered as if the love that boy feels for them anchors them deep as a tree's roots, holds them still as the oaks, which don't uproot in hurricane wind.

I've been following with interest the story of 20 suburban families who uprooted for inner - city urban farming in Kansas City.

My name is Camille and I am a recent college graduate who uprooted from NYC to Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Mary Ellen Mark describes Morton's Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives as «a brilliant book.»

Within a two - block walk I witnessed the wreckage: sidewalks impassable with downed century - old trees, cars crushed by fallen magnolia limbs, buildings smashed by towering eucalyptus, and the local park filled with uprooted trees, bent and broken branches.

For them to say sorry also seems as miraculous as uprooting trees and planting them in the sea.

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.

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A new FBI profiler, Elizabeth Keen, has her entire life uprooted when a mysterious criminal, Raymond Reddington, who has eluded capture for decades, turns The Russian dating scam works like this: a Russian woman, or someone in Russia claiming to be a woman, contacts a man on one of the online dating sites

Smoke and water damage to your property and the inconvenience of not being able to return to your apartment promptly can completely uproot many lives, even if the fire didn't impact your apartment directly.

Reform Philly, leave it bankrupt, which leads to school closures and dividing a community and uprooting children in poor neighborhoods

Boris Johnson pledged that we wouldn't see thousands of families uprooted on his watch.

in the context of the present government policy of high - tech development based on the global free market, the dalits, the tribals and the fisherfolk are increasingly getting alienated from the Land, the Forest and the Water - sources respectively which have been giving them their living, and are also getting uprooted from their habitat and culture; and women are commoditized and their sexuality, fertility and labour are increasingly commercialized.

But a wider array of housing types can offer safer, more affordable and lower - maintenance homes within existing communities, improving housing situations without uprooting older adults from the places they have called home for years or even decades.

The rains which have continued for the past two days also uprooted some trees and bill boards and destroyed metal rails along some major roads.

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.

Imagine it: A mulberry tree suddenly uprooting itself, flying through the air, and then replanting itself in the sea.

Uprooted once again and dumped on her great - aunt, Molly learns that the world is full of strays and that all towns have secrets.

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The nature of the work and making a decent crane operator's salary could mean uprooting from one city to another for nine months at a time.

Thousands of Yemeni people uprooted because of continued fighting against Al - Qaeda are using museums, as well as theaters and schools, as temporary homes.

Does AW ditch his home grown player who has been at Arsenal for nearly 10 years or get rid of a guy who just uprooted his family 9 months ago to join us.

To meet this need, the government approved hundreds of dam projects around the country, privatizing rivers, land, and uprooting communities.»

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

And that's before and after fish are caught; there is no excuse for uprooted plants and decor turned upside down.

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THE Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) hailed members of the militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Bikol (KMB) or Peasant Movement in Bicol together with the Sararong Inisyatiba nin Kahinwanmaan na Wasakon ang Agrokemikals na Lasong - GMO (SIKWAL — GMO) who uprooted Golden Rice yesterday, August 8, in an experimental lot at the Department of Agriculture Regional Field Unit No. 5 at Pili, Camarines Sur in Bicol region, Philippines.

At the current rate of deforestation, the country could be a desert within 20 to 50 years, according to the Armenia Tree Project, which has been working to rebuild and revitalize the nation and its people, one seedling at a time.Villagers uprooted during the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan are among the beneficiaries of the group's environmental efforts.

Strong, fierce winds uprooted trees, blew over power lines and damaged at least one building Sunday in Reading Center, about seven to 10 miles north of Watkins Glen in northern Schuyler County.

Such was its effect that in the late 1800's, the population uprooted and left to live in Cuba and other parts of Latin America.

Largest shake - up of dinosaur family tree in 130 years puts T. rex in a group with herbivores and uproots what we thought we knew about the reptiles

Psychological study after study has shown that while we can't uproot all the sources of stress in our life, there is plenty we can do to rewire how we respond to it to minimize its negative impact on our lives.

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.

That the preaching of the Baptist first uprooted him from the circle of the devotees of the Law, that then he became the prophet who spoke with authority and not as the scribes?

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.

But when a company is hinging on workers uprooting themselves, some more insight would be welcome.

The author has built the book's world on the Polish culture and folklore of her family background, and this gives Uprooted a depth and authenticity that enhances the story all through.

«It's unconscionable to uproot young children, some who have been abused and neglected, from the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center to the all - adult Buffalo Psychiatric Center where there are known Level 3 sex offenders residing.

In 2013, more than 400 farmers uprooted the Golden Rice field trials in Pili, Camarines Sur as the calls to ascertain safety to peoples» health and the environment remained unheeded by IRRI.

The upset of the day came when Australian qualifier Matthew Ebden uprooted American Mardy Fish, 6 - 3, 6 - 4.