Sentence examples for for an alleviation from inspiring English sources

The statures of Yemonja and Olokun increased in prominence in the Americas and the Caribbean as the enslaved survivors of the Middle Passage propitiated Olokun to bless their lost kinsmen and petitioned Yemonja for an alleviation of their suffering.

Some Quaker pacifists make an absolute personal stand against war (for example, by refusing to register for selective service and thus forfeiting conscientious objectors' status); others are more willing to sacrifice absolute purity by working for an alleviation of international tensions even at the cost of less rigorous application of their principles.

The silence of those glances is filled with an agonizing mixture of emotions, including the beseeching look of the tormented in the desperate hope for compassion, for an alleviation of their burdens, for hope — and the hate-filled, resentful look of the tormented at one of their own kind who appears to have thrown his lot in with the tormentors in order to improve his own conditions.

£42m for a flood alleviation scheme in Oxford.

Brouwer et al. (6) estimated WTP for a flood alleviation scheme in Bangladesh and found a number of problems with the application of CV in this developing country context.

In order to measure the loss in well-being from a flood event, we conducted a large-scale survey in July 2009 in the Quang Nam province in Central Vietnam asking 706 households to state their preferences for a flood alleviation scheme that would avoid the welfare loss from a future flood.

When Mr. Astor died in 1959, he left his wife $60 million for herself and an equal amount for a foundation "for the alleviation of human suffering".

She took up that vocation after her third husband, Vincent Astor, heir to the fur and real estate fortune of John Jacob Astor, died and left about $60 million to her personally and an equal amount for a foundation "for the alleviation of human suffering".

Therefore, identifying new agents capable of lowering the production of proinflammatory agents is regarded as an essential requirement for the alleviation of a number of inflammation-related disorders attributed to macrophage activation [ 12, 27].

GON block is a safe therapy and could be an option for alleviation of SUNCT pain during oral drugs titration.

Remedy products may be purchased for a variety of reasons other than to directly medicate against infection with influenza: they could be used for symptom alleviation for a range of other pathogen infections and conditions.