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Yet by staying silent on this spill, on the commission's findings, as well as on the disastrous public health and environmental fallout that persists today as a result of the EPA's decision to allow dispersants to be used in the Gulf of Mexico, Obama has let down thousands of fisher-folk and others in the region who are paying for this disaster with their livelihoods and their health.
Daphne Wysham: SOTU: Parsing Obama's 'Clean Energy' Promises Daphne Wysham 2011
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Yet by staying silent on this spill, on the commission's findings, as well as on the disastrous public health and environmental fallout that persists today as a result of the EPA's decision to allow dispersants to be used in the Gulf of Mexico, Obama has let down thousands of fisher-folk and others in the region who are paying for this disaster with their livelihoods and their health.
Daphne Wysham: SOTU: Parsing Obama's 'Clean Energy' Promises Daphne Wysham 2011
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He was splendidly muscled and hard as steel, and there were innumerable stories in circulation among the fisher-folk concerning his prodigious strength.
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Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp - catchers.
White and Yellow 2010
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Peter Boyelen, a new patrolman and one unknown to the fisher-folk, happened to arrive in Benicia and we took him into our plan.
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I grieve for the suffering from global scorching and from our addiction to fossil fuels -- the suffering of Gulf fisher-folk and West Virginia miners, drought-stricken Russians and Darfurians, flooded Pakistanis -- that will worsen and will spread, and no one in our new government will act to resolve the climate crisis.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Beyond This Election: Tears to Water the Wellsprings of New Life Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2010
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I grieve for the suffering from global scorching and from our addiction to fossil fuels -- the suffering of Gulf fisher-folk and West Virginia miners, drought-stricken Russians and Darfurians, flooded Pakistanis -- that will worsen and will spread, and no one in our new government will act to resolve the climate crisis.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Beyond This Election: Tears to Water the Wellsprings of New Life Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2010
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I grieve for the suffering from global scorching and from our addiction to fossil fuels -- the suffering of Gulf fisher-folk and West Virginia miners, drought-stricken Russians and Darfurians, flooded Pakistanis -- that will worsen and will spread, and no one in our new government will act to resolve the climate crisis.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Beyond This Election: Tears to Water the Wellsprings of New Life Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2010
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Historically, in Bakassi the more numerous Nigerians, mostly village fisher-folk, extended their presence in the area.
BAKASSI 2008
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Then he entertained us three days, feeding us on the flesh of birds and wild beasts and fishes, than which they had no other meat; and, on the fourth day, he carried us down to the beach, that we might divert ourselves by looking upon the fisher-folk.
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