Sentence examples for removal of rubble from inspiring English sources

The J/P Haitian Relief Organization, a charity run by the actor Sean Penn that has done extensive removal of rubble in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, has begun razing it.

With over a million homes destroyed, and cultural heritage sites facing irreversible damage, the cost of demolition and the removal of rubble alone could exceed a billion dollars.

After the destruction of Sept. 11, through the long process of search, recovery and removal of rubble, all across the country, at school assemblies, Broadway plays, in churches, synagogues and mosques, we banded together and sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" with a new sense of urgency.

Dr. Satcher looked up at a steel cross formed by two beams that removal of the rubble had revealed.

But two senior administration officials, in a briefing under ground rules in which they could not be identified, said the $50 million to $60 million for the removal of the rubble would be paid to the Palestinian Authority as an employment project, though it had not been determined where the money would come from.

Findings and Conclusions: The evaluation found that the key achievements of the response have been: mainstreaming of disaster preparedness; an effective response in camps, with populations largely free of cholera; recent progress on the rate of rubble removal; implementation of integrated neighborhood-based approaches; and progress in improving water and sanitation in the longer term.

With the majority in our survey responding that their homes were severely damaged or completely destroyed, it will be a challenge to decompress this camp without an acceleration in the rate of rubble removal that would allow people to return to plots of land.

The results of the investigation, first reported Wednesday night by NBC News, outraged some survivors, who saw the removal of items from the rubble as insensitive to the memories of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Mountains of rubble remain.

Highways, flames, smoke, piles of rubble.

Berlin was a heap of rubble.