Sentence examples for communities knocking from inspiring English sources

Hurricane Sandy battered the mid-Atlantic region on Monday, its powerful gusts and storm surges causing once-in-a-generation flooding in coastal communities, knocking down trees and power lines and leaving more than 100,000 people in the rain-soaked dark.

Hurricane Sandy battered the mid-Atlantic region on Monday, its powerful gusts and storm surges causing once-in-a-generation flooding in coastal communities, knocking down trees and power lines and leaving more than five million people — including a large swath of Manhattan — in the rain-soaked dark.

Apart from sinking the ferry, the storm also submerged whole towns and communities, knocked down power lines and caused landslides.

To cushion the blow of further branch closures, the bank – bailed out in 2008 – is launching a fleet of mobile vans intended to visit communities knocked by the disappearance of high street outlets.

Barely more than a week after Hurricane Sandy ripped through this Jersey Shore community, knocking out electricity and inflicting widespread damage, some residents here were confronted on Tuesday with a bad case of déjà vu: a mandatory evacuation because of another approaching storm.

Yet it would also displace large sections of a diverse community, knocking out the foundations of the rarest of American towns.

In one instance, members of the Bergholz community knocked on a guy's door, bum rushed him and hacked away at his beard on his own front lawn in front of his entire family.

Successful measures included unlocking the gates to public parks during the day, distributing free water, and painting the roofs of slum communities white, knocking 5C off internal temperatures.

It was a whirlwind trip to Vegas, with Becerra talking to Latino and other community groups, knocking on doors and reminding volunteers why they are working so hard.

In its initial onslaught along the coast, Florence buckled buildings, deluged entire communities and knocked out power to more than 900,000 homes and businesses.

We could come to a community and knock on every Republican door in a town of two thousand in an afternoon".