Sentences with phrase «with desperate refugees»

The Paris attacks must become calls to action to end the wars that are tearing the Middle East apart and flooding the world with desperate refugees.

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Many of these refugees end up in foreign countries, in desperate conditions, and with no knowledge of the local language.

Inspire your students with the untold story of American upstanders who risked their lives to help desperate refugees.

Traveling with forged papers and depending on the kindness of strangers, Fereiba and the children make a dangerous crossing into Iran under cover of darkness, the start of a harrowing journey that reduces her from a respected wife and mother to a desperate refugee.

Because when I see the storms that we're all heading into, the scarcity and instability and violence, and I see what those with wealth and power are prepared to do to hold onto that wealth and power — when I see my country scapegoating entire classes of people and closing its doors to desperate refugees — I know it matters all the more what kind of a government, what kind of a democracy, what kind of a society we have, what kind of a people we will be, as we head into that future.

The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the ozone holes haven't got bigger, the world hasn't entered a new ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?