Sentence examples for reunifications from inspiring English sources

The Danish decision to seize valuables was shocking – and drew a lot of adverse comment – but the really damaging section in the law just passed is the delay of family reunifications for up to three years.

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) had said the bill, which also delays family reunifications, would "fuel fear and xenophobia".

Its right-leaning government said the draft law would create one of Europe's toughest immigration systems, making it more difficult to claim welfare benefits, and only allowing family reunifications after four years of work or education in the country.

But tight budgets forced it to stop taking "free cases," those that are not family reunifications, he said.

In Illinois, a state initiative has moved children out of the family court system with adoptions, guardianships and family reunifications, in addition to reaching out to families before a domestic crisis occurs that could result in a formal investigation.

The law has provoked international outrage, with many human rights activists criticising the delay for family reunifications as a breach of international conventions.

Sometimes it has become quite impossible to establish where the wall was actually running through … If Wings of Desire was partly a plea for reunification, has the city lived up to it?

The other major push is for a much wider application of family reunification laws.

In what will be the biggest push for peace in over a decade – in 2004 Greek Cypriots rejected what was then seen as the most sophisticated reunification plan for the island – the two men are acutely aware that time is of the essence if the erstwhile British colony is to be put back together again.

"Diplomatic and political efforts have been tried since the mid-1980s and made very little progress," said Matthew Taylor, at the International Association for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures.

In a landmark speech at the Munich security conference last month the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, cast doubt on the legitimacy of German unification, proposing – to the baffled amusement of his audience – that it was less "legal" than the "reunification" of the Crimea with Russia.