Sentence examples for bit of aid from inspiring English sources

The Haitians get a bit of aid they should rightly have been given under the covenant of brotherhood that exists between us all, and we all just smile and pretend there's no alternative.

In an apparent concession to those concerns, the ministers agreed to add an extra hurdle: as a first stage, before banks could receive direct injections from the shared fund called the European Stability Mechanism, an initial bit of aid would need to be added to governments' balance sheets.

For one thing, the state's taking on the last five years' worth of that city debt -- an obligation that Mr. Bloomberg often recalls when he explains why he does not want to borrow his way out of the current budget crisis -- would be a symbolic as well as a material bit of aid.

At a news conference with Gov. George E. Pataki today, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg thanked leaders in Albany for "every bit of aid that you have been able to scrape together in what I know are tough economic times for the state".

So while Google is giving Yahoo a fair bit of aid in the short run, I suspect that it is betting that in the long run this deal is going to sap Yahoo's ability to build an effective search advertising system.

You can also use a small bit of AD first aid ointment on your lips, which works like a clear shimmery, super-long wear lip gloss.

"We are behaving in a neo-colonial way to Africa and we assuage our consciences by giving a bit of foreign aid that in nearly every case goes to the wrong people".

Though most of them are found, Lt. Marshall Craddock, head of the state Missing Persons Unit, explained that any extra bit of identification can aid in a child's recovery.

"It's a bit of a Band-Aid," says Stevenson.

But Deborah A. P. Hersman, another member of the board, said, "This recommendation is a bit of a Band-Aid because we can't get the flight and duty time fixes".

Although the priest has what sound like sterling qualifications (including a diploma in exorcism and hands-on experience in "the pursuit and extermination of heresy, witchcraft and apostasy"), he's also a bit of a maverick, aiding children orphaned by the Inquisition and dipping into church revenues to build an infirmary for lepers ("for which We rebuke you but mildly").