• As it appears that Indiana will fail to come through, the Petreikis family has been attempting to raise money to pay for the life or death surgery.

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  • Through cultural and educational programmes, its objectives are to enhance peace and respect for life and to raise awareness among young people on the role they could play in this area.

    UNESCO: THEMES

  • "I had no clue how to raise him and no clue how to better my life, " she said.

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  • We prefer to go about the business of life - to work and raise our families in the security of communities achieved by hard-won struggles.

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  • Why do you risk your life to raise your voice? a reporter asked her.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • "Seduced and Abandoned, " which HBO picked up ahead of its Cannes premiere, begins with a quote attributed to the late director Orson Welles: that 95 percent of his life is spent trying to raise money for movies, and 5 percent is actually making them.

    NPR: Toback, Baldwin Eye Cannes Movie-Making Underbelly

  • The government has said that it intends to raise the pension age if life expectancy keeps increasing, so the sky could be the limit in theory!

    BBC: Fergus Muirhead

  • Can we raise money to bring our dreams to life?

    FORBES: $1Billion Dollars for Girls

  • For a woman of her generation, who was told by her Wellesley graduation speaker that her role in life was to raise the next generation of educated citizens, becoming the highest-ranking female official in American history should have been triumph enough.

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  • But I recognize that it was important for their mother to make the effort to raise them, and for their father to have a role in their life.

    CNN: What it means to be a 21st century dad

  • Secretary West, thank you for your work on behalf of our nation's veterans, and, to both of you, thank you for your support of the recent actions in Congress to raise the pay of our military personnel, to improve their quality of life, to improve the retirement systems of the veterans...

    CNN: Transcript: Clinton speaks at Memorial Day Event

  • They and their families are going through hell as they too try to work, raise families, and live some semblance of a normal life while continuing to experience the aftermath of their combat experiences.

    WHITEHOUSE: Honor, Courage, and Commitment

  • Today, Nokia announced three new Symbian models that are likely going to raise questions about whether a fading champion is refusing to face the facts of life.

    FORBES: Is Nokia Having a Norma Desmond Moment?

  • So I think it means that for the long term, there's an awful lot of work to raise Afghanistan up to a decent standard of living and a decent way of life.

    NPR: Afghan Capital Calm After Deadly Riots

  • You also need to raise the retirement age, because life expectancy has gone much higher.

    CNN: World faces a day of financial reckoning

  • Simin plans to leave the country and make a life abroad, but Nader wants to stay and raise their only child, an eleven-year-old girl called Termeh (Sarina Farhadi), in Iran.

    NEWYORKER: Tehran Tales

  • When happiness is defined as overall satisfaction with life, money continues to raise happiness beyond that threshold.

    FORBES: 3 Things Billions Cannot Buy

  • We must work together to raise awareness, increase access to services, improve preventive care, and end the silence surrounding this life-threatening illness so at-risk and infected individuals can receive the assistance they need.

    WHITEHOUSE: World Hepatitis Day

  • Seaweb is a multimedia public education project designed to raise awareness of the world ocean and the life within it.

    CNN: Humans the biggest threat to marine species

  • The estimate comes as part of a UK-wide campaign, Children of Alcoholics week, which aims to raise awareness of the affects of dependency on family life.

    BBC: Isle of Man alcoholism affects thousands

  • At one stand Zelda Nhlabatsi, who runs the Family Life Association of Swaziland, is trying to raise awareness about the disease.

    CNN: Sex worker: I sleep with five men a day just to eat

  • This tutor, a college student from Ghana and the first of many mentors who would enter my life, inspired and worked with me to raise my grades, set goals, and pursue higher education.

    WHITEHOUSE: Champions of Change Blog

  • Clarifying these remarks, he told his audience in York "I am not talking about 'baby Asbos', trying to make the state raise children, or interfering with normal family life".

    BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Blair hits back over 'baby Asbos'

  • Laymond decided to get involved in the competition when she heard that the crew representing Edinburgh would have a relay team of transplant patients, surgeons and specialist nurses on its boat to raise awareness for organ transplantation -- something that saved her life six years ago.

    CNN: July 12, 2012 -- Updated 1330 GMT (2130 HKT)

  • "It's even hard now to raise money in town for band trips, or for the Relay for Life, " Paula Smith said.

    CNN: A message to the candidates: 'This is not a game'

  • In those times of turmoil and earsplitting acrimony in public life, the term referred to those Americans who didn't raise much commotion, but whose fidelity to tradition was unwavering.

    CNN: Billy Graham's other voice

  • With the financial system more stable and profits and share prices showing signs of life, these banks have been able to sell new shares to raise cash, and so replace state funds without eroding their capital.

    ECONOMIST: Wall Street and the taxpayer

  • In real life, Keiko was a captive killer whale sparking animal rights campaigners to raise funds to release him from the Mexican aquarium where he was kept.

    BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Free Willy whale buried in secret

  • The credit card companies became subject to the laws of a state that placed no limits on how much interest they could charge their customers, allowed them to raise their rates on a whim, and permitted any number of additional provisions that made life immeasurably better for credit card dealers.

    FORBES: Would The Sale of Health Insurance Across State Lines Really Benefit Americans?

  • Think of a rat in a Skinner box, learning which buttons to push to get pellets of food, and you have a pretty good sense of the life of a congressman: a constant attention to what must be done to raise money, and to raise money not from all of us, but from the tiniest slice of the 1% of us.

    CNN: Why Washington is corrupt

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