Assistance
Meanings and phrases
assistance
- the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; aid; assist; help
- a resource; aid; help
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- the bureau in the Department of Justice that assists local criminal justice systems to reduce or prevent crime and violence and drug abuse; BJA
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- benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law; supplementary benefit; social assistance
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- governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need; social welfare; welfare
- It is aware, too, of the measures the government is taking to advance charitable works and public assistance.
- The Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA, had received 60 requests for public assistance throughout the area.
- ABLA occupants do a little better financially, with 75% needing public assistance and just over 8% able to support themselves.
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- benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law; supplementary benefit; national assistance
- Its main particularity is its social assistance of last resort.
- In 2015 a total of 7.7% of the population received social assistance.
- In 2016 a total of 10.4% of the population received social assistance.
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- She asked her father for financial assistance.
- The government gave the EPDP vast financial assistance.
- Half of them received financial assistance.
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- It also provides technical assistance to county staff.
- Some also provide technical assistance to municipalities.
- The S&BR gave technical assistance and some financial help.
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- Watts, for military assistance against them.
- This included direct military assistance from the Ugandan Army.
- The document also contained a request for immediate military assistance.
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- Occupational therapy can provide assistance with activities.
- They also provide assistance with the quality of the spraying.
- It cannot provide assistance to any person in connection with a legal claim.
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- She rejects medical assistance, but accepts an assistant's offer to help her up.
- Hostility towards health workers trying to offer medical assistance was also reported.
- Medical services, including First Aid Parties, provided on the spot medical assistance.
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- The gold olive branch wreath represents peaceful humanitarian assistance.
- Italy is among those countries who render humanitarian assistance to Azerbaijan.
- In 2013, the navy deployed carrying humanitarian assistance worth of $1 million.
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- MJF does not provide direct legal assistance.
- Victims receive psychological, medical, and legal assistance.
- Under-18s without the means to pay for a lawyer are often left without legal assistance.
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- North Korea and Tanzania also provided assistance with training.
- He provided assistance to the city from US Naval vessels stationed in Long Beach harbor.
- The UNHCR provided assistance to refugees with revenue-generating activities throughout 2011.
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- As such, HHA administers federal government assistance programs and monies for locally subsidized housing.
- The FNS is the federal agency responsible for administering the nation’s domestic nutrition assistance programs.
- In 1914, she was hired by the YWCA USA to coordinate assistance programs for the Industrial Department, which aided women working in factories.
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- In 2014 total development assistance stood at €13.9 million.
- In 1970 Sweden approved providing Chile with development assistance.
- Norad used to be the official development assistance organization in Norway.
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- On June 27, 1571, he was one of three cardinals appointed by the pope to study providing assistance for the poor of Rome.
- In 1808 by order of Tsar Alexander I went forth “About providing assistance and headright to foreign sodbusters in Novorossiya.
- Its history can be traced to 1978, when the federal government of Canada began providing assistance for minority language cases.
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- It provides assistance to disaster-affected regions for up to 40 days.
- The task force provides assistance to a lead federal agency when tasked by DoD.
- The helpline also provides assistance with issues pertaining to foodborne illness.
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- Most of the families could not afford to bury their loved ones without assistance.
- She insisted he learn to tie his shoe laces without assistance and using his only hand.
- With the town's residents fearful and the sheriff without assistance, Andrew Rodanthe volunteers to become deputy.
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- In 1953 he asked for government assistance for the victims of a cyclone that had devastated Karikal.
- As such, HHA administers federal government assistance programs and monies for locally subsidized housing.
- He also pledged government assistance in rebuilding schools, roads, and other infrastructure destroyed by the disaster.
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- It was built after the Sino-Soviet Split and did not receive foreign assistance.
- Once Bolivia's government depended heavily on foreign assistance to finance development projects and to pay the public staff.
- All of these factors contribute to its heavy dependence on foreign assistance to help support its balance of payments and to finance development projects.
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- The United States gave $48.4 million in economic assistance to Grenada in 1984.
- His government also provided economic assistance to neighbouring countries Laos and Cambodia.
- The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) manages the bulk of bilateral economic assistance; the Treasury Department handles most multilateral aid.
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- Spain maintained a bilateral assistance program in Equatorial Guinea.
- The pharmacy works closely with volunteers who arrange to get medications through drug companies' patient assistance program.
- The U.S. did not offer B-17s to the Soviet Union as part of its war materiel assistance program, but at least 73 aircraft were acquired by the Soviet Air Force.
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- This allowed citizens in disaster areas to apply for federal assistance.
- In August 2012, the US Air Force debarred the company for a period of three years from any federal assistance.
- At the core of the report are recommendations to enact cuts to welfare, child care, college Pell grants and several other federal assistance programs.
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- Many students received assistance from the teaching fellows.
- He received assistance from professor Eduards Volters, but struggled financially.
- She received assistance from the Association for the Blind in Kooyong on how to live without sight.
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- The basic concept is one of self-help and mutual assistance within each community.
- The treaty stipulated mutual assistance in case of outside attack and was directed against the Duke of Burgundy.
- Okazaki's method of instruction prescribed that senior students to teach their junior students in the spirit of mutual assistance.
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- The guns were given to Gibraltar in 1858 for its assistance during that conflict.
- That same year, he was asked by NYPD Police Commissioner Simeon Draper for his assistance during the Dead Rabbits Riot.
- North Korea obtained its first R-17 missiles from Egypt in 1979 or 1980, in return for assistance during the Yom Kippur War.
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- An amateur should never attempt to draft one without the assistance of an expert.
- It was the first time in his career that he performed without the assistance of his father.
- In March "Leechuan" completed the upriver journey to Chongqing but not without the assistance of trackers.
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- Watts, for military assistance against them.
- Al-Muttaqi appealed to Ibn Ra'iq for assistance against Kurankij.
- ", the Khalkhas) with a request for military assistance against Semyonov.
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- Kungälv police requested assistance from police in both Ytterby and Gothenburg.
- However, needing to assist with evacuating victims, the Park Police requested assistance from MPD.
- The two companies had requested assistance, faced with the financial difficulties of their U.S. owners Ford and General Motors.
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- After the 2004 Asian tsunami, the LDS Church brought aid and other assistance to the tsunami devastated countries, including Sri Lanka.
- The 2006 Berlin Biennale was recognized as a "project of peak cultural importance" and received both federal funding and other assistance.
- The Act provides for the creation of a Commission to make "arrangements for administrative, secretarial or other assistance" to the Assembly.
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- These interventions include: teacher training, all-day kindergarten, lower class size K-3rd grade, literacy and math coaching programs that provide teachers with individualized job-embedded professional development to improve their instruction, before or after school tutoring assistance to struggling students.
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- It also established a fund to provide emergency assistance for the preservation of such elements.
- Additionally, the United Nations World Food Program called for emergency assistance for the country.
- Jitka’s village in Czechoslovakia had received UNICEF emergency assistance after the Second World War.
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- Scott and Chalmers sought assistance from Bragg's main army.
- Captain Jewett sought assistance from the British explorer James Weddell.
- Unable to stabilise the economy, the government sought assistance from the International Monetary Fund.
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- These interventions include: teacher training, all-day kindergarten, lower class size K-3rd grade, literacy and math coaching programs that provide teachers with individualized job-embedded professional development to improve their instruction, before or after school tutoring assistance to struggling students.
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- These interventions include: teacher training, all-day kindergarten, lower class size K-3rd grade, literacy and math coaching programs that provide teachers with individualized job-embedded professional development to improve their instruction, before or after school tutoring assistance to struggling students.