Sentence examples for displacements from inspiring English sources
The word "displacements" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to an object or person being moved to a different location, or a situation in which someone or something is displaced or moved from their usual position or place. For example: "The displacements caused by the natural disaster resulted in many families seeking refuge in another country."
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Plural of displacement
The United Nations has repeatedly urged Europe to be more active in its response to the huge displacements of people on its southern flank, instead of responding with a drawbridge-like mentality.
Victims and culprits feel betrayed, prosecutors and judges are overwhelmed, and new private armies are wreaking havoc in almost a third of the country, leading to new mass displacements and a worrying resurgence in violence.
Only a small fraction of those, some 2m-3m a year or 2% of all jobs, are permanent "displacements", where workers have little or no prospect of returning to their old industry.
Aid agencies fear that thousands more civilian deaths and displacements could occur if the operation goes ahead.The monarch and the penAn Australian resident of Thailand, Harry Nicolaides, was sentenced to three years in jail for defaming the Thai royal family.
Assume they are the shortest such displacements.
The conflicts in the Horn of Africa since the 1960s have caused similar displacements.
It said: "Due to differences in reporting by our sources, in some cases our new displacement figures reflect the total number of people displaced during the year, whereas in others they reflect only the number of people that remained in displacement at the year's end".
On top of this, the latest labour market survey figures show that the latest rise in net inward migration does not appear to have led to widespread displacement of existing workers.
The NRC said that changes in their data collection methods led to "dramatic adjustments" in this year's data on internal displacement.
In the 1980s we were automating the industry and many lower-technology pits were at risk of displacement as others were turned into computerised superpits - in a stagnant market for coal.
Crises such as the Ebola outbreak in west Africa and mass displacement in Central African Republic, South Sudan and Syria triggered a 22% rise in humanitarian spending among the DAC's 28 member countries, which spent $13bn in that area last year, the OECD said.
