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non-governmental organization
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non-governmental organization

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  • The elderly clerk at the desk tells Tariq, as he fetches the room key, that the Muwaffaq is popular with journalists and NGO workers.   (source)
    NGO = non-governmental organization (private, non-profit organization working for member goals at the international level)
  • Most of the facilitators worked for NGOs, but there was a short white woman with long dark hair and bright eyes who said, "I am a storyteller."   (source)
    NGOs = non-governmental organizations (private, non-profit organizations working for member goals at the international level)
  • The visitors from the European Commission, the UN, UNICEF, and several NGOs arrived at the center in a convoy of cars one afternoon.   (source)
  • Dear Muslim brothers:  There is a school, the Khushal School, which is run by an NGO ... and is a center of vulgarity and obscenity.   (source)
    NGO = non-governmental organization (private, non-profit organization working for member goals at the international level)
  • Tariq has found work with a French NGO that fits land mine survivors and amputees with prosthetic limbs.   (source)
  • One target of the Taliban were non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, which they said were anti-Islam.   (source)
    NGOs = private, non-profit organizations working for member goals at the international level
  • In the river, they melted into the horde of shoppers milling about, the money changers and bored-looking NGO workers, the cigarette vendors, the covered women who thrust fake antibiotic prescriptions at people and begged for money to fill them.   (source)
    NGO = non-governmental organization (private, non-profit organization working for member goals at the international level)
  • Then our school hosted a painting competition for the children of Mingora sponsored by my father's friend who ran an NGO for women's rights.   (source)
  • When the NGOs received threatening letters from the Taliban and went to the DC to ask for his help, he wouldn't even listen to them.   (source)
    NGOs = non-governmental organizations (private, non-profit organizations working for member goals at the international level)
  • And we find a lot of schools, run by the government or other foreign NGOs, where the teachers haven't been paid for months or years.   (source)
  • In South Korea, women hold 14 percent of the seats in the National Assembly but lead 80 percent of the country's NGOs.   (source)
  • "Mortenson explained that with CAI's limited budget ("more limited than ever these days," he thought), it was too expensive to send American volunteers to Pakistan, and directed him toward a few other NGOs working in Asia that accepted volunteers."   (source)
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  • He had invited them to lunch and offered to give them a tour of Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital, where the NGO he worked for had an office.†   (source)
  • "Nobody would rent to us, because we were an NGO [a nongovernmental organization] and an NGO full of women," Sadaffe said.†   (source)
  • Cheng bong ngo!' screeched the legless beggar clattering down the alley, careening into the wall as he screamed.†   (source)
  • She has been in Kabul for a year now, her third stint, this time with a small NGO, working at the hospital and running a mobile clinic on Mondays.†   (source)
  • 'Bong ngo!†   (source)
  • On a darkened staircase a woman on her knees performed the act for which she was being paid, the man above her holding money in his hand over her head; a young couple, two obvious addicts in near frenzy, were pleading with a man in an expensive black leather jacket; a small boy, smoking a marijuana cigarette, urinated against the stone wall; a beggar without legs clattered on his wheeled board over the cobblestones chanting 'bong ngo.†   (source)
  • Cheng bong ngo!†   (source)
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  • South Vietnamese government forces, led by Ngo Dinh Diem—the elected president—attacked several Buddhist pagodas; that was in August.   (source)
    ngo = proper name - not the word
  • So it is that Ngo Dinh Diem, president of Vietnam, receives Holy Communion alongside his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu.   (source)
  • In May, Diem's brother—Ngo Dinh Nhu, who ran the secret police force—had broken up a Buddhist celebration by killing eight children and one woman.   (source)
  • That was the summer that Henry Cabot Lodge became the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam; that was the summer that Lodge received a State Department cable advising him that the United States would "no longer tolerate" Ngo Dinh Nhu's "influence" on President Diem's regime.   (source)
  • The protesters have come to demonstrate against a new law set forth by President Ngo Dinh Diem that makes flying the Buddhist flag illegal in Vietnam.   (source)
  • On one trip to Asia, he praises South Vietnam's president, Ngo Dinh Diem, a man who tortured and killed an estimated fifty thousand suspected Communists.   (source)
  • In the meantime, he hopes to contain U.S. involvement, reading his briefing books each morning and praying that South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem doesn't do anything stupid or irresponsible to inflame the situation.   (source)
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