Sentence examples for a base for aid from inspiring English sources

The tiny half-destroyed airport had become a base for aid workers, stranded journalists, sleeping soldiers.

While devastation in much of the city of Banda Aceh was total, large inland parts of the city were undamaged, providing a base for aid operations and temporary accommodation for the homeless.

At least gripping images have a mobilising effect on public opinion and provide a strong base for aid.

With the current crisis in Haiti, we could use the prison instead as a staging base for aid.

The industrial city is a base for a international aid workers and Syrian refugees, and word travels fast there.

Lithuania has rather good relations with Belarus, despite being a base for efforts to aid the opposition there.

It is a base station for aid agencies and a haven for refugees.

It comes at a time of intense discussion in Washington over whether to widen American operations and aid to Pakistan — a base for Al Qaeda — as an alternative to deeper American involvement in Afghanistan with the addition of more forces.

The BBC's Africa correspondent Andrew Harding said it would act as an offshore base for the aid effort, and described it as an "important moment".

This is in line with an argument by (Easterly 2002), that, indebted countries persistently remain indebted as a strategy to establish a need base for donors' continual aid support.

It also had to make sure that the individual donor's contributions through the victory fund to a particular state party did not exceed the donor's base limit for aiding the state party.