Sentence examples for difficult relief from inspiring English sources

Besides worries about growing security threats in Kenya, NGOs have expressed concern that military operations against al-Shabaab by the Somali transitional government, backed by African Union forces, will exacerbate already difficult relief efforts.

U.N. and private aid workers said Thursday that the pressing need to shelter up to 3 million Pakistani earthquake survivors before the harsh Himalayan winter sets in was threatening to become the most difficult relief operation the world has ever faced.

Port-au-Prince's snarling traffic is now punctuated by curses in Chinese and Cuban Spanish.In this section Flying too high for safety An unappetising menu A quick stimulus ReprintsBecause transport is so difficult, relief workers often cannot get to cafeterias or restaurants for lunch.

Exaggerated death tolls also make it difficult for relief organizations to deliver their services.

Hundreds of thousands have fled cities for the Afghan countryside, a migration that makes emergency food distribution enormously difficult, because relief agencies do not know how to find people.

But United Nations officials said ready or not, the talks had to begin, because the situation on the ground in Darfur was only getting worse — more chaotic, more violent and more difficult for relief workers to help the two million displaced people trapped in squalid camps that have become incubators for frustration and crime.

The high prices are also making it difficult for relief organizations to purchase the amounts of grains and cereals needed to respond to the emergency.

"It remains difficult for relief agencies to get complete and unhindered access to the people in these camps and to offer needed services such as psychosocial counseling," she added.

However, discrete crack analysis for the determination of crack pattern and widths is rather difficult because stress relief occurs during crack formation, and if the stress relief is not immediately accounted for, many unrealistic parallel cracks will be formed.

After the verdict, Ms. Akhmedova said she had been so deeply shaken by the prosecution that, even as she walked away free, it was difficult to feel relief.

Rescue workers also stopped to honor the dead, a pause in a difficult but enormous relief effort as the hopes of finding new survivors faded.