Sentence examples for reject aid from inspiring English sources

Hard-line groups in Pakistan have tried to assert their influence amid the chaos created by the floods, with the Taliban urging people to reject aid from the United States, and Islamic groups stepping in to provide aid in the breach left by the government's faltering response.

With so much at stake, many are willing to reject aid to be safe rather than sorry.

That caused an outcry: it evoked the 1985 Mexico city earthquake, in which the government proudly rejected aid while thousands died in the rubble.

But here we have a case in which politicians are, in effect, spending large sums, in the form of rejected aid, not to help the poor but to hurt them.

He's rejecting aid for a state that ranks fourth in children living below the poverty line and 46th in high school graduation rates, while struggling with a projected budget shortfall of more than $1.7 billion.

Helping Net Addicts The technique known as intervention has long been accepted as a way for desperate loved ones to help a compulsive gambler or alcoholic who otherwise rejects aid.

Thus they will probably adopt a three-pronged strategy now: sending snipers and bombers to Mogadishu; rejecting aid; and later, as catastrophic television images leak out, allowing in aid co-ordinated by Muslim groups in return for payments.America has discreetly bankrolled the offensive against the Shabab.

The rejected aid was sent to the Dominican Republic or back to Miami.

Mr. Erian brushed aside recent reports by some Arab news outlets that the Brotherhood planned to reject American aid to Egypt, including the military aid of about $1.3 billion a year that Egypt has received since it signed the Camp David accord with Israel in 1978.

Another amendment proposed that human-rights groups should judge whether the aid should continue.These drafts prompted Mexico's government to say that it would reject the aid.

Taliban fighters have in the past attacked international aid groups in the country, accusing them of trying to introduce "un-Islamic" values "Pakistan should reject this aid to maintain sovereignty and independence," a Taliban spokesman told the Associated Press.