Sentences with phrase «which displaces people»

Flash flooding, which displaces people and animals from their homes, is most common in April, May, and June, and causes spikes in animal shelter intake.

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The devastation, which affected around 7 million people, displaced 2.1 million and killed 363, according to official figures.

At least 363 people perished, and more than 2 million people were displaced as a result of these floods which received minimal media coverage globally.

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.

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.

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.

Bishop Edwin was speaking at the launch on Friday of a new church - led campaign to help rebuild Marawi, five months after the conclusion of the conflict which left 500,000 people displaced.

So, whether you're a refugee which means you crossed a national border or whether you're an internally displaced person, all that kind of stuff really does end up mattering here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The State Department defended his nomination for the position, which facilitates international cooperation over refugees, internally displaced persons, and other migrants.

Once again, the chief ecumenical officer of the Russian Orthodox Church misrepresented what is afoot in Ukraine, which is not a «conflict» but a Russian invasion and a low - intensity war, which has already cost more than ten thousand lives while displacing over a million persons and wreaking economic and social havoc in Ukraine's Donbas region.

In 2015, he came to the University for Development Studies, Navrongo Campus for NPP TESCON programme when I was NDC TEIN president and preached a very terrible message by asking Ghanaians to make sacrifices like the people of Ivory Coast did some years ago and that «a country smaller in size and population compared to Ghana, which had endured bloody dispute in their last election, resulting in the loss and displacing of thousands of lives, had, in a short period, turned around their fortunes.

The smaller shock was a Ukip poster unveiled in the morning by Nigel Farage which was eerily similar to Nazi propaganda, a picture of a huge crowd of displaced people trudging along an open road.

The singer who was not happy with the situation of the Displaced Persons during the visit noted that the lingering insurgency in the area which left thousands of people dead, millions injured and displaced from their homes with property worth billions of naira destroyed have nothing to do with religion as insinuated, but has do with Displaced Persons during the visit noted that the lingering insurgency in the area which left thousands of people dead, millions injured and displaced from their homes with property worth billions of naira destroyed have nothing to do with religion as insinuated, but has do with displaced from their homes with property worth billions of naira destroyed have nothing to do with religion as insinuated, but has do with politics.

The construction of residential buildings in inappropriate locations in the region, was brought under the spotlight following recent floods in capital Kumasi, which displaced hundreds of people.

He maintained that the cases are common in areas recovered from Boko Haram terrorists, including Baga and Kukawa which consist of people living in their homes and those at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps.

Even after the situation was brought under relative control over subsequent days and weeks, public concern hung on the threat of radiation almost more than it did than on the tsunami and earthquake themselves, which had killed more than 15,850 people and displaced at least 340,000 more.

If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and does little else to prevent climate change — the trajectory we are on — weather events now considered extreme, like the one in 1997 which led to floods so severe that hundreds of thousands of people in Africa were displaced, and the one in 2009 that led to the worst droughts and bushfires in Australia's history, will become average by 2050.

But critics of the $ 3 billion dam, which will displace more than 100 000 people, most of them tribal farmers, have not welcomed the ODA initiative.

The melting of glacial ice contributes to sea - level rise, which threatens to «displace millions of people within the lifetime of many of today's children,» Moon writes.

Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By the Sea (six nominations) is another film by a real movie artist: a study of grief and the ways in which it is denied and displaced into other human activities which in turn have their effects on other people.

BREAKING POINT: The War for Democracy in Ukraine looks at people transformed by a democratic revolution, who give up their normal lives to fight a Russian invasion, in a war which has killed 10,000 and displaced 1.9 million Ukrainians.

A runner - up is the sad - sack Laurent scion Pierre (Franz Rogowski), who shows up drunk at a ritzy wedding with several bewildered African refugees in tow (the film is set in Calais, which has a large population of displaced people who are stranded there en route to Britain).

Parvin continued: «It pains me that when I go back, I will tell my people that wealthy governments just talked about which lands will be lost, communities displaced, cultures destroyed and which lives are less important.»

It is widely agreed that the vast majority of people displaced by disasters are internally displaced (defined by the 1998 Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement), which is the focus of displacement situations highlighted by the Global Estimates report.

The story's title is D.P., which stands for «Displaced Persons» — the technical military term for the desperate children.

Lost and found pet shelters, in which displaced animals are housed in what becomes a reunion center for people and their animals.

In the days following Harvey, we reached out to a variety of people in our network to see which shelters needed the most urgent support to keep displaced pets fed.

Violent explosions interrupt Douglas Gordon's moving film I Had Nowhere to Go, which consists mostly of a black screen and the filmmaker Jonas Mekas reading parts of his memoir about being in Nazi and displaced - persons camps in the 1940s after fleeing his native Lithuania.

Heimer transformed and displaced her titles by translating them into a series of other languages and then back to English to show the ways in which narratives change as they are passed from person to person.

Oldenburg's view of this work which people have termed «a monument to a disintegrating, somehow displaced European culture,» was simple: «my single - minded aim is to give existence to fantasy.»

They won a grant from the Lemelson - MIT Program to develop a lightweight, portable disaster relief shelter, designed to be complete with a water purification system and a renewable energy source to power an LED light, which could be used after disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, or tornadoes to house people who have been displaced.

Bangladesh could experience a three - foot rise in sea level, which would submerge almost 20 percent of the country and displace more than 30 million people.

Ikal Angelei won the Prize in 2012 for her efforts to halt the Gibe III dam, which has the potential to displace and disrupt the lives of over 500,000 people.

And the calculations suggest that the rise could conceivably exceed six feet, which would put thousands of square miles of the American coastline under water and would probably displace tens of millions of people in Asia.

Drastic changes to the environment Displaces people and animals stops natural flow Fish Flood cycle Water quality and quantity downstream can be affected, which can have an impact on plant life.

China's massive Three Gorges Dam, which has already displaced more than 1 million people, may have claimed a new victim: Environmental researchers say it has helped turn the country's largest freshwater lake into a dried - out plain.

Lord Deben claimed that climate change will cause «much greater numbers of heatwaves one end and flooding at the other, and some parts of the country, like the east of England, with very little water andother parts with huge amounts of water», and that «Bangladesh will practically be unable to be lived in», which will in turn cause «170million displaced people wandering around the world».

Coincidentally, Bush's address will be delivered on May 4, exactly one year to the date of the fierce storm, which resulted in a tragic loss of life, displaced more than 1,500 people, and destroyed almost every home, business, hospital, and school.

They are now also actively replacing themselves with the displaced people of Syria, a country which until recently had the seventh highest rate of population growth in the world.

The collapse could lead to a sea level rise of nearly 10 feet (3 meters), which would engulf major U.S. cities such as New York and Miami and displace 150 million people living on coasts worldwide.

People are leaving the camps for displaced persons and the night commuter shelters which protected tens of thousands of children are now in the process of closing.

It usually happens when in some areas where the risk of a covered peril is high; the number of claims from people displaced from their homes is so great that the insurance companies have to limit the length of time during which they will reimburse the expenses for temporary shelter.

Under native title law development which either displaced Indigenous people from their land or prevented them from exercising rights to their land, results in the extinguishment of native title.