So the goal was to evacuate the target cities.

Most humanitarian staff were forced to evacuate the camp.

But they had not had any time to evacuate any belongings.

We have less than five minutes to evacuate the whole building.

The Government of Tuvalu has warned that it may need to evacuate the islands within the coming decades.

An anti tank missile directly hit a house in Metula, forcing residents in the area to evacuate into bomb shelters.

And my parents were told by the Khmer Rouge to evacuate the city because of impending American bombing for three days.

Israel had taken the initiative to withdraw from Gaza and evacuate Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

Following the outbreak of fighting in various parts of the country in November 2004, many humanitarian agencies were forced to suspend operations and evacuate personnel temporarily.

And I'm telling you, I actually testified at the Senate about the absolute ludicrous idea that we would actually evacuate, and actually have three or four days' warning.

It is worth noting that, with proper early warning systems in place in the Indian Ocean, eight hours would have been sufficient time to evacuate and spare the lives of countless victims.

On March 15 this year, Russia's major military forces began to evacuate, but the Russian side promised to continue to retain the military base in Heimi Mimi and the naval base in Tartus.

In the next three weeks, the Israeli army will do something unprecedented instead of defending the country against external enemies or terrorism, it will evacuate by force if necessary 9,000 Israelis from their homes.

Second, with Likud s Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, Israel now has a government which is far less likely to be willing or able to make major concessions and evacuate hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers from the West Bank.

Some participants pointed out that, if indigenous peoples were able to exercise the right of self determination, but then would be forced to evacuate their sacred lands due to rising waters, it would defeat their entire struggle for self determination.

To be sure, many of these inner city residents simply lacked the resources to evacuate easily. But it is beginning to emerge that many also preferred to stay in a social environment that they trusted rather than fleeing to safer, but foreign, surroundings.

The last weeks have seen massive demonstrations, some of them verging on violence many of the settlers have declared that they will not obey government orders to evacuate. The army and the police have mobilized almost 50,000 troops to carry out evictions.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency, were heroic in going above and beyond their mandates to protect migrants at risk in Libya, as were many NGOs. The World Bank also acted quickly to provide funds to evacuate Bangladeshi nationals.

Despite calls in some Israeli media for Gaza to be bombed back to the stone age, the Israeli government seems to accept that that would be wrong. Israel has taken some steps to minimize civilian casualties by warning Palestinians to evacuate areas that were about to be targeted.

What followed were many hours of harassment, humiliation, threats with live hand grenades, shots fired at the feet of one of our colleagues, and looting and ransacking of the IRC premises. Finally, another group of MONUC peacekeepers this time from India came to the rescue and helped evacuate the aid workers on helicopters.

The Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen has emphasized that most famines are associated not with a shortage of food, but the failure to get food to the people who need it, largely because they lack purchasing power. America, the richest country in the world, clearly had the resources to evacuate New Orleans.

With Muammar el Qaddafi s fall from power in Libya, Chinese companies lost investments worth roughly 20 billion, which Libya s new government has implied are unlikely to be recovered. Many Chinese were disquieted by their government s decision to evacuate China s citizens from Libya, and would have preferred a bolder effort to protect the countries commercial assets there.

More than half of the 43 members of the Association of Small Island States believe that the decision to do nothing, to let ocean waters rise, can be considered tantamount to approval of murder. The smallest among them, Tuvalu, with 11,000 inhabitants, is already searching for a place to evacuate its citizens when their island is submerged.

Moreover, China dispatched a warship and four military aircraft to the Mediterranean to help evacuate 35,860 Chinese nationals and 2,100 others from Libya. That measure, the first projection of Chinese naval power so far from home, is consistent with Confucianism, which regards morality as the top priority of policymaking, rather than Marxism, according to which economic interests alone drive foreign policy.

In support of Ariel Sharon's plan to evacuate unilaterally all Gaza settlements and a few in the West Bank, the Bush administration backed Israel's stance on borders and refugees, two of the most important issues of Palestinian Israeli final status negotiations. This position is in clear violation of the text of the roadmap to achieve a Palestinian Israeli peace, which the Bush administration claims it continues to believe in.

Further authorizes UNMIL, subject to the consent of troop contributing countries concerned and of the Government of Sierra Leone, to deploy an adequate number of military personnel to Sierra Leone, if and when needed, to evacuate UNMIL military personnel deployed to Sierra Leone pursuant to paragraph 5 of this resolution and officials of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in the event of a serious security crisis affecting those personnel and the Court

Further authorizes UNMIL, subject to the consent of troop contributing countries concerned and of the Government of Sierra Leone, to deploy an adequate number of military personnel to Sierra Leone, if and when needed, to evacuate UNMIL military personnel deployed to Sierra Leone pursuant to paragraph 5 of this resolution and officials of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in the event of a serious security crisis affecting those personnel and the Court