Sample Sentences for
non-governmental organization
(editor-reviewed)

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    NGOs have a very bad reputation among religious people in our country so this was a way to invite people's wrath.  (source)
    NGOs = non-governmental organizations (private, non-profit organizations working for member goals at the international level)
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    When NGOs offer money, the Taliban turn them away.  (source)
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    In Kyrgyzstan, women don't hold a single seat in parliament but run 90 percent of the NGOs.  (source)
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    Cheng bong ngo!' screeched the legless beggar clattering down the alley, careening into the wall as he screamed.†  (source)
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    Cases of it had been stolen from NGOs in Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan.  (source)
    NGOs = non-governmental organizations (private, non-profit organizations working for member goals at the international level)
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    One target of the Taliban were non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, which they said were anti-Islam.  (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)
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    This was a Catholic organization that partnered with UNICEF and NGOs to create centers like ours.  (source)
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    'Bong ngo!†  (source)
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    I am also indebted to the wide range of materials available from Human Rights Watch, Save the Children, CARE, Defence for Children International, the Children's Institute, médecins sans frontiers, Amnesty International, War Child, and other NGOs.  (source)
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    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)
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    I knocked on doors and visited NGOs that had been in the business of educating girls for a long time.  (source)
    NGOs = non-governmental organizations (private, non-profit organizations working for member goals at the international level)
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    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)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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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
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    So it is that Ngo Dinh Diem, president of Vietnam, receives Holy Communion alongside his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu.  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
    Ngo = proper name - not the word
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    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)
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    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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    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)
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    So it is that Ngo Dinh Diem, president of Vietnam, receives Holy Communion alongside his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu.  (source)
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