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How to use the word displacement in a Sentence?

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We believed the impressions we saw at Penarth were consistently spaced to suggest an animal walking. We also saw displacement rims where mud had been pushed up. These structures are characteristic of active movement through the soft ground.

Paul Barrett

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Blanco Fracture zone quakes are strike-slip( lateral motions of the crustal blocks on either side, rather than up-down displacement), so it is very unlikely for them to pose a tsunami threat, even if a bigger quake happened, like a magnitude 7.0 for example.

Harold Tobin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Biden administration believes there are more suitable ways to work with our partner governments to manage migration across the region, the United States will build on our strong relationships and support these governments' efforts to address forced displacement without placing undue burden on them, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our approach will continue to provide support for their national action plans under the Comprehensive Regional Protection and Solutions Framework through international humanitarian partners.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Their displacement generates socio-economic and cultural burdens that alienate them, hindering their traditional ways and generating the very pressures on biodiversity that these ‘fortress’ models of conservation are attempting to mitigate.

Thomas Worsdell

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We are going to see some scarring in that regard. It is classic displacement.

Karen Dynan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The trumpet on the Angel Moroni statue fell off, and there is minor displacement of some of the temple's smaller spire stones.

Daniel Woodruff

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is, from our initial analysis, the largest number of people in a single period since the Syrian crisis began almost nine years ago, so it's the fastest growing displacement we have ever seen in the country. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees spokesman Andrej Mahecic said the harsh winter weather was making their suffering worse and shelter was hard to find.

Jens Laerke

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Like so many, including those in the Ukrainian-American community, my parents lives were changed forever by Communist and Nazi regimes, they survived poverty, war and displacement, and finally arrived in the United States, with me in tow, in search of freedom, opportunity, dignity and accountability.

Marie Yovanovitch

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The cabinet condemns this grave aggression. This is a continuation of the forced displacement of the people of Jerusalem from their homes and lands — a war crime and a crime against humanity.

Mohammad Shtayyeh

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

A situation of insecurity moves people, it forces internal displacement that later turns into forced migrations.

Roberto Herrera Cceres

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It's a really large number -- and it's a number that's well above what we've seen in the past, here, what you're looking at is double -- double the displacement we would have expected.

Alexis Santos

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are at a watershed, where success in managing forced displacement globally requires a new and far more comprehensive approach so that countries and communities aren't left dealing with this alone, but there is reason for some hope. Fourteen countries are already pioneering a new blueprint for responding to refugee situations and in a matter of months a new Global Compact on Refugees will be ready for adoption by the United Nations General Assembly.

Filippo Grandi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is critical to remember that the Ebola Fast FactsThe current outbreak outbreak in northwest Congo River is not the only challenge this country is facing, there is massive population displacement, food insecurity and malnutrition, particularly in the east of the country, and multiple simultaneous outbreaks of cholera, of measles and recently of vaccine-derived poliovirus.

Peter Salama

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I feel my perspective will be twisted if discussing the skewed video which cut out part of the incident. … If you would like to have a full normal interview about the displacement of European-Americans then I gladly am available to enlighten the public.

Tarrin Olson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

What we found is that the more digital a job is, on balance the better the pay—and also the less chance there is for total displacement of your job.

Mark Muro

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Bana's experiences and message transcend the headlines and pierce through the political noise and debates to remind us of the human cost of war and displacement.

Christine Pride

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The average Muslim newcomer in Europe experiences a tremendous amount of societal pressure. They experience racism, poverty, exclusion, discrimination, language and cultural barriers, and a deep sense of displacement, their sense of homelessness is not only geographical, it is spiritual. Churches who offer The Muslims real and meaningful hospitality are seeing some surprising results. Islam GERMANY received nearly 900,000 asylum seekers in 2016 ; the majority was from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, according to published reports. Churches in Berlin and Hamburg were faced with so many asylum seekers wanting to convert that they held baptisms in municipal swimming pools. The increasing number of asylum seekers in Islam GERMANY prompted the nation’s evangelical church leaders to issue a handbook on baptizing the converts, reported The Independent.

Matthew Kaemingk

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The fact that that flow has stopped does not mean the problem of displacement has ended. It may have ended for some countries that don't have to deal with it anymore, for now.

Refugees Filippo Grandi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The issue doesn't disappear if there is no president or because we have the added complication of the Syrian displacement, the issue is still there, women are still suffering.

Abou Habib

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We need to be smart, after 30 long years, when all we have in the world is displacement, here we have a glimmer of hope. Here we have a chance of success. That is a good sell.

Iain Hall

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The bombings have provoked alarm as well as forced and precipitous displacement of the population, again this Wednesday, there were some bombings not far from Kinkala, in the village of Soumouna.

Louis Portella Mbuyu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Displacement camps near the Turkish border doubled to 65,000 people since January, now there are 75,000 people there, with 27,000 living outside camps, sometimes in mosques and schools.

Mercy Corps spokesman Delafield

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government) forces appear to be spearheading a concerted campaign to forcibly displace Arab communities by destroying entire villages in areas they have recaptured from IS in northern Iraq, the forced displacement of civilians and the deliberate destruction of homes and property without military justification, may amount to war crimes.

Donatella Rovera

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Mental health is an increasing need as people suffer from the trauma of displacement and increasing levels of depression and anxiety from their current situation.

Michael Woodman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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