"relieve" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- During World War II, he served with the Selective Service System, and later joined commissions to relieve postwar famine and aid Holocaust survivors.
- Coming less than two weeks after a cyclone ravaged Bangladesh, leaving more than 138,000 dead, and amid appeals to relieve famine in Africa, the concert raised questions among charities and performers about why the proceeds were not shared among causes.
- Midway through an operation intended to deliver large amounts of food to relieve famine in the southern Sudan, the United Nations has run into serious logistical and political problems.
- If the $4 billion is essentially a gift to the Soviet Union and mainly a boon to American farmers, and if it won't do much to relieve famine this winter, why spend it at all?
- Peacekeeping forces consisting of troops provided by various countries, in concert with various United Nations and other aid agencies, have helped to relieve famine, disease, and poverty, and to suppress some local armed conflicts.
- Though Oxfam's initial concern was the provision of food to relieve famine, over the years the organisation has developed strategies to combat the causes of famine.
- Connections to the Teresh of the Merneptah Stele, which also mentions shipments of grain to the Hittite Empire to relieve famine, are logically unavoidable.
- In even more ancient days, they sacrificed old men to relieve famine, but for centuries they had been throwing puppets made of rushes into the Tiber instead.
- The United Nations sanctions allow food shipments to Iraq and Kuwait to relieve famine only.
- But we will not only lend our approval for the sake of international solidarity to relieve famine, but because this review encompasses a number of improvements compared to previous versions.
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