After Mr. Hussein was removed, the American-led authorities delayed official returns, concerned that a flood of returning refugees could include people dedicated to fighting the occupation forces.
While shelter and food were provided for a flood of returning Albanians and the Kosovo Liberation Army was partially disarmed, little progress was made on rebuilding the economy, courts, police and other institutions.
Shinseki testified for more than an hour as the committee chairman, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt)., warned the panel against a "rush to judgment" for a healthcare system that has faced a jump in service, in part from an aging veterans population and a flood of troops returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
18), about Rob Nixon's hitchhiking experiences, a flood of memories returned of risk-free hitchhiking many years ago when I was in college, and later when I was in the Army -- yet I never once used my thumb.
Dominated by the financial services sector, primarily in Stamford and Greenwich, Fairfield's office market has been affected more by the floundering stock market and economic recession that produced downsizing of area companies and a flood of space returned as sublets.
The flood of returning refugees peaked last week when more than 25,000 people crossed the border just on Wednesday, four days before the referendum.
The second is the flood of returning refugees throughout Afghanistan -- 1.7 million have returned from outside the country, double the number expected, aid agencies say, and another 900,000 have returned home from refugee camps in Afghanistan.
Success is relative: the "flood" of returning refugees is based on unreliable figures (the Iraqi government counts everybody crossing the border, even if they've been on a day trip) and the country remains, as one reporter puts it, "uniquely dangerous".
As the office day started, there was a trickle rather than a flood of federal workers returning to the maze of government buildings near Federal Center metro station in downtown Washington.
While the agency has modestly increased the number of claims processed each year, the number of new claims filed has increased by 48 percent over the last four years as a flood of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans return home and file disability claims seeking compensation for wounds suffered in the line of duty (677,000 as of October 2011).
Consequently, SCHADEX stands clearly apart from the "N-years flood is generated by a N-years rainfall" paradigm, as a great diversity of hydrological scenarios can generate a flood of a given return period, with many variables taken into account.
