Below you will find example sentences with "aid workers". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Aid Workers in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: aid
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 18
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 10 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "aid workers" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 28 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as access nine aid workers were killed, aid workers and officials, humanitarian, gaza and killed stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with sex workers, humanitarian aid, foreign aid, humanitarian aid, foreign aid and first aid, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with aid workers
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
But for Yemeni aid workers like Nasser, a billion dollars in aid funding doesn't solve anything. (17 words)
Oxfam scandal: UN aid agencies fear backlash (Yesterday) - The behaviour of aid workers is under intense scrutiny. (17 words)
Aid workers and officials have said that the death toll is likely to keep rising, as bodies continue to wash up ashore. (22 words)
Aid shipments to Gaza from Cyprus resumed late on Friday, a Cypriot source and a UAE official said, with a ship carrying food to the besieged Palestinian enclave after a pause following Israel’s killing of seven aid workers. (39 words)
Scores of relief workers have been killed since the conflict began, and an Israeli attack on a World Central Kitchen convoy in Gaza this month that killed seven aid workers only highlighted the dangers and difficulties of protecting them. (39 words)
There has been a steady stream of studies for years over the failure of western development aid, humanitarian liberal intervention, and human rights moralizing elites and their many disasters, and the occasional progress of aid workers. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
U.N.: 10 South Sudanese aid workers kidnappedApril 26 (UPI) -- An armed group kidnapped 10 South Sudan aid workers in the southern town of Yei, the United Nations announced Thursday.
There has been a steady stream of studies for years over the failure of western development aid, humanitarian liberal intervention, and human rights moralizing elites and their many disasters, and the occasional progress of aid workers.
Turkish soldiers and aid workers formed a seamless, well-rehearsed line, efficiently offloading from the helicopter 10,000 lbs. of humanitarian aid, which contained milk, tents, cots, rice, and generators.
Aid shipments to Gaza from Cyprus resumed late on Friday, a Cypriot source and a UAE official said, with a ship carrying food to the besieged Palestinian enclave after a pause following Israel’s killing of seven aid workers.
Gaza medical officials said earlier an apparent Israeli airstrike killed four international aid workers with the US-based international aid charity and their Palestinian driver.
The WCK aid workers had been distributing aid supplies to civilians in the north that day and were returning to Rafah when the airstrike hit them.
World Central Kitchen aid workers, is the first time the Biden administration has sought to leverage U.S. aid to influence Israeli military behaviour.
Aid workers have raised fears such a move would prevent life-saving aid from reaching the country and make things even worse in Yemen.
Aid workers in Somalia have been warning for weeks that the additional counterterrorism sanctions could scare donors into suspending emergency funding, and banks into limiting transfers to fund aid groups.
Banning humanitarian aid by denying travel permission to a few American humanitarian aid workers will hardly create pressure on Kim Jong Un or the Pyongyang elite.
But for Yemeni aid workers like Nasser, a billion dollars in aid funding doesn't solve anything.
In November, despite the President’s decree calling for unimpeded access, nine aid workers were killed and aid was obstructed over 100 times.
Oxfam scandal: UN aid agencies fear backlash (Yesterday) - The behaviour of aid workers is under intense scrutiny.
The U.S. budgetary cuts to humanitarian aid institutions providing assistance to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank could lead to long-term disastrous consequences, said aid workers in the region.
Scores of relief workers have been killed since the conflict began, and an Israeli attack on a World Central Kitchen convoy in Gaza this month that killed seven aid workers only highlighted the dangers and difficulties of protecting them.
There’s no doubt that we need more social workers aid workers and people skilled at dispute resolution—not eliminating the police, but changing the face and functional priorities of those who serve.
Aid workers and officials have said that the death toll is likely to keep rising, as bodies continue to wash up ashore.
Aid workers on the ground have expressed concerns about the help being provided to Syria after the two devastating earthquakes - describing the current situation as a "nightmare scenario".
Aid workers warned, though, that Friday’s convoy fell significantly short of the 500 trucks that typically entered the territory every day before the war.
Earlier in June, the state of Florida picked up three dozen migrants in Texas and sent them by private jet to California’s capital, catching shelters and aid workers in Sacramento by surprise.