flood-stricken

We, too, had our doubts about the potential effect of this measure in the flood-stricken areas.

Furthermore, in 2002 a severe drought hit many central and southern parts of the country, including previously flood-stricken areas.

To flood-stricken citizens, the emergency disaster-relief bill meant billions of dollars in potential aid.

Finally, I should like to ask if the said concessions will benefit the flood-stricken inhabitants of Pakistan.

Cleanup efforts were rushed as debris had to be cleared from flood-stricken areas before the storm struck.

An arresting series of images from our photo diarist in the flood-stricken Peruvian highlands.

Here, as in other flood-stricken regions, the Indian Air Force has regularly dropped food and medicines.

Her next assignment took her to the flood-stricken island of Mindanao in the Philippines.

The prohibition on sampling was inserted into a bill providing about $8 billion in emergency relief for flood-stricken communities in the Midwest.

A fund-raiser for flood-stricken farmers in the Midwest, the maze raised $33,000 in three days, and spun off into a cottage industry.

A powerful tropical cyclone is heading for Australia's already flood-stricken Queensland coast.

For Westerners, often moved by the plight of China's flood-stricken poor, there is no certainty that donated aid reaches those who need it most.

With his 800 soldiers, Bocari's job was to assist and evacuate the flood-stricken with their meagre belongings.

After V-E Day, the group flew food to Holland to relieve flood-stricken areas.

Except for lumber, which was rebounding because of rebuilding in the flood-stricken Midwest, the economy shows little evidence of inflationary cost pressures, the survey found.

Indeed, it cannot be excluded that the decision to grant autonomous trade preferences for flood-stricken Pakistan may be followed by other similar initiatives in the future.

His reports from flood-stricken parts of eastern Nepal, where he also participated in rescue activities together with Nepal Army, are considered as heroic by many.

Returning to Bengal,in 1913, Jatin began organising a grand scale relief in the flood-stricken areas around the Damodar.

The measure has grown by nearly $3.3 billion since President Clinton proposed the measure on July 14 during a visit to flood-stricken Des Moines.

Elsewhere in Missouri, Gov. Mel Carnahan toured flood-stricken areas after returning from a vacation in Italy.

On June 3, 1948, the steamer Gladys supplied flood-stricken Chilliwack with tents and provisions as well as moving people and stock onto high ground.

Vice President Al Gore spoke with Midwest governors in a conference call, promising a strong federal relief response and a personal visit to flood-stricken areas on Monday.

Last year, a student at Middlebury College in Vermont inspired a campus and community campaign to send relief funds to flood-stricken areas of Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

No outsider had visited at least a dozen flood-stricken villages along the way, where tens of thousands of people had received no aid in the week since the flood.

"I think it's a good victory for people in our states," said Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, one of the flood-stricken states that would benefit from the bill.