Displaced Quotations
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Calling Quotes
We're a different entity coming in from the outside, and we have to put our resources where our moth is and show parents we can do a better job. Displaced parents were able to see what a better school system looks like, and they are now calling us and demanding that we provide the same, if not better. And we agree.
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Abandoned Quotes
When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and focused on the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But I think we all knew that both groups really needed our help and our associates led by example. First, they involved their families and communities in their Fall festivals, and second they reached into their own pocketbooks, like so many other Americans, and contributed thousands of dollars toward the relief effort for the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
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Boost Quotes
Louisiana's performance in the wake of the hurricanes is impressive. Statewide results are receiving a strong boost from construction crews and other personnel in the region for the post-hurricane reconstruction. We think displaced gamblers from the Mississippi Gulf Coast are also driving growth.
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Assistance Quotes
Many of our families have had difficulty unraveling the red tape involved in accessing assistance. We'll work with these families to make sure they are aware of everything they're entitled to. We are committed to supporting Hale County and displaced families recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. With the support and technical assistance from HAC, we can make a difference for our rural families.
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Dam Quotes
I don?t know about the technicalities involved in raising the height of the dam. What I do know is that farmers have been displaced from their land and they have lost their livelihood. Till the people who have already been displaced by the dam are not rehabilitated, the height of the dam should not be raised.
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Along Quotes
Gil Gonzalez and Jim Little will bring their in-depth knowledge and experience in community development and agriculture to the important role of coordinating USDA Hurricane response and recovery efforts in the region, ... I have great confidence in this senior team to work with all of our federal, state and local partners. USDA is delivering all the assistance possible to help displaced residents along the Gulf coast.
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Address Quotes
Having a functioning justice system is vital to the recovery of those states hard hit by Hurricane Katrina because it provides a needed sense of normality, and a venue to address grievances, ... Allowing attorneys displaced by the storm to temporarily practice law from Nevada is a simple step on our part that can assist their justice systems and preserve the rights and liberties of their citizens.
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Blessings Quotes
We have opened our hearts, our homes and our university to families and individuals displaced by this disaster. But as the relief effort moves from despair to hope and destruction to rebuilding, all of us are being called on to share our blessings in this unprecedented undertaking to rebuild communities and help those in need put their lives back together again.
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Ballots Quotes
We realize that a percentage of Louisiana voters will vote by absentee ballots. We are committed to the residents of New Orleans, wherever they are living now. It is important that displaced residents understand that we will to do our part to make sure that absentee ballots are delivered and counted.
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Across Quotes
The president has said and decided that those who have opened their hearts and their communities and their schools to these kids these 372,000 displaced kids across the country will not be penalized for doing so, ... What we know is that we owe each of these precious children particularly after all they've been through a high-quality education and that is what we are committed to do.
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Actual Quotes
This nationwide telephone number will provide callers expanded services and hours and the opportunity to speak with an actual person, ... With all that displaced families are going through starting to rebuild their lives, the last thing they need to encounter is an answering machine without answers. We have increased our staffing at the National Servicing Call Center in Oklahoma, and we currently have the capacity to handle 15,000 calls daily.
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Breaking Quotes
There has to be a negotiated solution to this problem, and we support that taking place without breaking up Sri Lanka, ... We're deeply concerned that there's a humanitarian disaster in the making as the war continues. There are already 150,000 people displaced by the fighting that has renewed over the last months in the north.
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Again Quotes
We knew it would translate well to radio, but what we didn't expect was the personal and emotional reaction we got from listeners - people telling us they feel like kids again listening to the ballgames on the radio. We hear that especially from displaced fans - a Dodgers fan who lives in Dallas or a Red Sox fan who lives in Los Angeles.
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African Quotes
But since the last quarter of the year, we are witnessing a marked deterioration, with both parties, both rebels and the government, involved in outright breaches of the ceasefire agreement, including attacks against the African Union itself and attacks against internally displaced persons.
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Apple Quotes
We wanted to bring some of the Big Easy to the Big Apple to help the rebuilding effort. What better way than to help the New Orleans Crafts Guild which is giving students the skills and the inspiration to make a difference. In my family, we have three permanently displaced relatives, one destroyed house, one destroyed car and another damaged house. But that's good news compared to the suffering of so many others.
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Break Quotes
We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we didn't really want to push the fund-raising side of the event and wanted to present it more as a way to relieve stress. Walking is good for the heart and a great way to relieve stress, which everyone needs these days.
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Along Quotes
The recent natural disasters along America's Gulf Coast - which displaced more than 1 million people - along with surging gas prices and major corporate layoffs have directly and indirectly impacted the Kingpin Million Dollar Challenge and has left us no other alternative but to postpone the event until 2006.
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Along Quotes
The origins of my career as a peace mediator can be found from my childhood years. I was born in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. We lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked my country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, I became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland.
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Again Quotes
This nightmare has gone on long enough. We once again call upon President Bush to make good on his promises to the people of the Gulf. This is a national crisis and requires strong national leadership to assure that all displaced people are safely re-housed as soon as possible. They should not have to endure more trauma - most especially at the hands of their federal government.
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Allow Quotes
Our displaced citizens should have the same rights as our soldiers and for that matter, our college students, to participate in their states elections while they are temporarily away from home, ... This bill would allow evacuees to assert by affidavit that they intend to return to Louisiana or Mississippi and vote in the 2006 and 2008 federal elections by absentee ballot.
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Coercion Quotes
Some religious organizations are openly using the hurricane relief efforts to win new converts. If these groups can't separate their evangelism from their relief work, they should not be eligible for public funding. People displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita should not be subjected to unwanted, high-pressure religious coercion as the price of getting help from their own government.
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Cannot Quotes
One day I am at home, watching dramatic images of Iraqi Yazidis fleeing for their lives being aired nonstop on 24-hour news channels. Days later, I am there, staring at tens of thousands of displaced Iraqis and feeling a 35-millimeter frame cannot capture the scope of devastation and heartbreak before me.
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Effort Quotes
Any person or family displaced as a result of Hurricane Katrina ... could get a temporary housing voucher. This is without regard to their income situation, ... It recognizes the storm hit rich and poor alike, and this is an effort to give them some immediate, short-term help so they can move out of the situation in which they find themselves.
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Available Quotes
A number of evacuees have been brought to Camp Grayling and other military installations downstate, ... We are going to make known to the governor's office that we have buildings, square footage and vacant land at Sawyer that could be available to help the residents and businesses displaced by Hurricane Katrina.