The alliance provides food rations, medicines and cash loans to residents when they have to tide over a difficult period.
Eating Marines rations of dry biscuits and turkey paste in the desert, followed by use of a particularly inventive latrine at dusk was a great bonding experience.
Well, it was until the poor creature was led out of its enclosure and its food was dropped on the ground, and everyone laughed as they watched the hungry camel scarf its rations.
True, he does not exactly have scoring opportunities lavished upon him in Chris Hughton's austere set-up, but he makes sloppy use of his meagre rations.
Mrs Fantlova's account of life in Auschwitz is as searing as any, for its descriptions of the "showers"; the lashing with whips; hunger, rations and imagined feasts – and the chimneys, forever smoking.
Eventually it could cover all state employees in India, a total of some 18m people.Here's looking at youBack in Jharkhand the unique identity number is also used for monitoring distribution of subsidised food rations.
When it began, the women's daily rations were slashed to 1,200 calories, while the men were allowed 1,500.
These are not shipments of medicines or emergency rations, but speed is just as vital: the goods are clothes of the latest fashion, in hot demand everywhere.Welcome to the world of Zara, purveyor of mass fashion.
The authorities have distributed food rations four months in advance.
He used to trade cigarettes for other men's rum rations and, when the orderly officer's back was turned, quickly whip off puttee, boot and sock to rub the rum between his toes.
So the utility rations it by providing water for a limited number of hours a day and, in some places, by restricting the quantity.
