deeply concerned about continued reports of political violence, internal displacement of the population, the activities of armed militias unchecked by the government and police action that have violated basic political rights and freedoms.
Quotes about displacement (16 Quotes)
I think it's exactly what we've been afraid of the return of one population and the displacement of another.
The mirrors reflect a sense of displacement in today's fashion, a lack of clear vision.
Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest.
It seems almost as if a nuclear weapon went off in New Orleans, ... The displacement of the population is the crisis that New Orleans faces. . . . The physical and business processes of a port cannot occur in a ghost town, and right now, that is what New Orleans is.
Displacement based on race is a form of genocide, as recognized under the Geneva Conventions. Destruction of a people's culture, by official action or depraved inaction, is an offense against humanity under international law.
a theater of displacement, in which political energies that might otherwise have been expended in defending multiethnic society at home were directed instead at defending mythic multiculturalism far away. Bosnia became the latest bel espoir of a generation that had tried ecology, socialism, and civil rights only to watch all these lose their romantic momentum.
The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.
In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.
Cohen told Congress it was grotesque ... when in fact he has caused the displacement of refugees in excess of a million people, where he has sent in 40,000 of his military, paramilitary, police hooded thugs, to savagely kill and slaughter at random on a wholesale basis these innocent people.
We have to break the cycle of displacement. Africa remains the global leader in this cycle. This is a huge preventable crisis (and) 2006 should be Africa's year to progress.
We're now seeing the first large-scale, environmentally related displacement of people in 70 years, ... And if we're not careful some of the social consequences may be similar to the last one.
The land trust is a tool we're using to ensure there isn't a lot of displacement as the city continues to grow. The community will always control the land and be able to ensure that property is affordable and that the land is used for the interest of the community.
We have repeatedly warned that some of the world's oldest and smallest indigenous groups are at high risk not only of displacement, but even of extinction because of the Colombian conflict. All indigenous communities have close links to their ancestral land, on which their cultural survival depends.
The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.