Sentence examples for public relief from inspiring English sources

"That brought this whole phenomenon in high public relief.

If so, Mr. Romney's father George, who received public relief at one point, falls under suspicion.

In the towns, they formed auxiliaries to local Jacobin clubs and even a handful of independent women's clubs, participated in civic festivals, and did public relief work.

The worker who refuses to work can now quarter himself on public relief (which means finally on confiscated property income) to an extent formerly impossible.

When wages fall to a point at which saving also is impossible, the unemployed have no means of subsistence except public relief during the slumps.

In Latin America the Spanish colonists, instead of establishing a public relief agency, gave grants to charities to provide "hospitals" for the poor (beneficencias), and the Portuguese promoted lay brotherhoods such as the Misericórdia.

Three years after the Taliban took control of most of Afghanistan and introduced a harsh and unforgiving Islamic piety that all but obliterated women from public life, relief and development experts say that months of quiet negotiation with Taliban leaders are beginning to dent the prohibitions.

There was no difference on public anger relief between a highly sympathetic apology statement and its counterpart.

It all may be illusory, and may be just the public's relief that the election season is finally over.

Bank failures led to widespread layoffs, and welfare historians have documented increasing demands for private and public poor relief at the local level.

Red Rocks was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a Depression-era public work relief program under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal" that put unemployed men, ages 17-23, to work.