Sentence examples for flying relief from inspiring English sources

Roberto Clemente, one of baseball's greatest players, died in 1972 while flying relief supplies to victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua.

In early April, Sebourn was promoted to radiation decontamination officer, issued with a handheld radiation device, Tyvek suit and respirator, and charged with cleaning up helicopters flying relief missions into the tsunami zone.

Under agreement with Haiti, the United States is now managing air traffic control at the airport, helicopters are flying relief missions from warships off the coast and 9,000 to 10,000 troops are expected to arrive by Monday to help with the relief effort.

BELGIUM: Two Airbus transport planes that have flown relief supplies to Tajikistan, a 50-person medical unit.

Peter Nopper, the chief executive of Tri-Med of Britain, a relief equipment broker, said he was quoted a price of $520,000 for a large plane to fly relief supplies from Dubai to Haiti.

There are already plans for American C-17 transport planes to fly relief supplies from a base near Pisa, Italy, to Turkmenistan, which neighbors Afghanistan, an operation that could be incorporated into a larger NATO effort.

Secretary Powell's new choice to head the refugee bureau is Arthur Eugene Dewey, a retired Air Force colonel who flew relief flights during the Biafra war and has worked as an administrator at the United Nation's refugee agency.

Just imagine if Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez had, in a moment of generosity or political theatre, decided to fly relief aid to the inhabitants of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

He says it is getting to be impossible to fly relief supplies into Jacmel because of extortion by Haitian officials.

The airstrip that I used when I visited the Nuba Mountains has now been bombed to keep humanitarians from flying in relief supplies; the markets I visited are now deserted, according to accounts smuggled out to monitoring groups.

Nepal has been forced to close its only international airport to big aeroplanes flying in relief supplies and aid workers because its only runway is deteriorating under the weight of large aircraft.