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How to use the word migratory in a Sentence?

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The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

Cormac McCarthy

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1 year ago

In the United States, people who have illegal migratory status are more chased than in Mexico. In Mexico, we try to make the migration orderly, safe.We don’t see it as a crime, like a crime of migration.

Fernandez Villasana

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We face a challenge that in many ways is unique with tremendous pressure from illegal migratory flows coming in different ways, different parts of the hemisphere, we have to have a stronger regional approach to this challenge.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The United States remains committed to supporting safe, orderly, and humane migration throughout our region, and we engage with partners throughout the migratory corridor to impress upon them our shared responsibility for humane migration management, which includes enforcing migration laws and protecting vulnerable populations, to address the immediatechallenges that returnees face,the United States is working withthe International Organization on Migration to ensure that returning Haitian migrants are met at the airport and provided withimmediateassistance.

The State Department spokesperson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The migratory birds travel along a path known as the Central Asian Flyway, which covers regions like Siberia, Mongolia, Iran and Afghanistan.

Arun Prasad

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As repeatedly stated by a series of UN human rights bodies, detention of children based on their migratory status is a violation of international law.

Felipe González

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The reality is that Europe is not experiencing a migration crisis of the same magnitude as the one it experienced in 2015, a country like Italy has not at all the same migratory pressure as last year. ... The crisis we are experiencing today in Europe is a political crisis.

The French president

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

More than half of migratory bird species travelling the world’s main flyways have suffered serious population declines in the past 30 years. This is due mainly to unequal and ineffective protection across their migratory range and the places they stop to refuel along their routes, a typical migratory bird relies on many different geographic locations throughout its annual cycle for food, rest and breeding. So even if we protect most of their breeding grounds, it’s still not enough – threats somewhere else can affect the entire population.

Claire Runge

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It won’t matter what we do in Australia or in Europe if these birds are losing their habitat somewhere else – they will still perish, we need to work together far more effectively round the world if we want our migratory birds to survive into the future.

Richard Fuller

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

For instance, Germany has protected areas for over 98 percent of the migratory species that pass its borders, but fewer than 13 percent of its species are adequately protected across their global range, it won’t matter what we do in Australia or in Europe if these birds are losing their habitat somewhere else – they will still perish.

Richard Fuller

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

A typical migratory bird relies on many different geographic locations throughout its annual cycle for food, rest and breeding. So even if we protect most of their breeding grounds, it’s still not enough – threats somewhere else can affect the entire population, the chain can be broken at any link.

Claire Runge

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

In Peru the biggest driver of deforestation is migratory agriculture, mostly poor people who migrate from the Andes to the Amazon. Illegal mining is also a big problem, the decree will affect everything related to land use ... I hope it will take effect in no more than two weeks.

Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Many species are migratory, meaning they're available fresh in various regions only at certain times of the year.

Jeff Ludwin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Manuel Valls is being deliberately vague when he talks about a fairer distribution of foreigners washing up on Europe's shores - which is tantamount to an increase in the migratory burden already weighing on France.

Manuel Valls

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The migratory birds were on the return leg of their migration from the southwestern United States and Mexico to their breeding grounds on the northern coast of Alaska.

Steve Schmidt

Found on CNN
9 years ago

When you have that detailed movement information it allows you to see the precise migratory path that these animals took, how they navigated the landscape, and also the timing of these migrations.

Matt Kauffman

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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