Sentence examples for securing aid from inspiring English sources

Kevin Piccoli, who is chairman of the nonprofit Prattsville Relief Fund and the town's Economic Development Corporation, said securing aid was tricky.

ATHENS — Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Greece on Saturday, including hundreds of black-clad youths who clashed with the police here, as Greeks vented their rage at tough new austerity measures aimed at securing aid and avoiding a debt default.

And if Congress, as its sponsors hope, sends the bill to President Bush before the July 4 recess, it will be Mr. Reed who emerges as one of the big winners on Capitol Hill, not only by securing aid for troubled borrowers back home but also because the legislation creates an affordable housing fund that he has been fighting for since he won a second term in 2002.

Fallon said Clinton had been instrumental in securing aid funding for the region impacted by the attacks, which included much of New York City's banking district.

Peacemaking attempts by the Organization of African Unity (now the African Union) remained ineffective, while Biafra began earning recognition from African states and securing aid from international organizations for what was by then a starving population.

Now, in this moment of painful budget cuts, with Arizona and more than a dozen other states placing children eligible for subsidized child care on waiting lists, only two kinds of families are reliably securing aid: those under the supervision of child protective services — which looks after abuse and neglect cases — and those receiving cash assistance.

They have helped secure aid and debt-relief packages worth billions of dollars.

One of them, Selim, the governor of Trebizond, went to Crimea in 1511, secured aid there from the Tatar khan, and then crossed the Danube into the Balkans.

The deal also promised to secure aid for civilians who have found themselves not only trapped in the middle of the fighting but also used as pawns.

After years of witnessing such events I still wonder why we must be a nation in motion to secure aid for the needy.

Even before Innocent IV died in 1254, the papacy tried to secure aid from the English king Henry III (1216 72), promising the Sicilian crown to his younger son Edmund.