Sentence examples for rescue about from inspiring English sources

In the more compelling story, Wallenberg uses trumped-up papers to rescue about 20 Jews, only to have the truck that is supposed to carry them stall in front of the building where they had been hiding and forcing the would-be escapees to huddle in the vehicle for two days.

By then, although Penn had helped to rescue about forty people, the press and the bloggers had done their sneering.

The weather was hampering efforts to rescue about 10 other hikers missing elsewhere in the Sierra Nevada.

Rwandan peacekeepers and French forces intervened to rescue about 30 Muslims trapped inside their homes in the PK13 district, witnesses said.

In New Jersey, where the superstorm came ashore, a huge swell of water swept over the small town of Moonachie, and authorities struggled to rescue about 800 people, some of them living in a trailer park.

More than 25,000 people lost power in the Rapid City area, and authorities were recruiting snowmobilers to help rescue about 80 motorists who had been stuck in their vehicles overnight.

Firefighters rescued about 120 people from the high waters, including 80 from a bar, Howard County said in a statement.

The rescue took about four hours.

It took until after midnight to complete the rescue operation, about seven hours after it began.

That's what a pet rescue is about, after all.

But no one wants a murky mix of the two, which is what you have in many SIVs now," says a person close to the fund.There is a whiff of self-rescue about the enterprise, especially with regard to Citigroup, which is more exposed to the asset-backed commercial-paper market than any other bank (see chart).