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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

  • 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

  • He was splendidly muscled and hard as steel, and there were innumerable stories in circulation among the fisher-folk concerning his prodigious strength.

    The King of the Greeks 2010

  • Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp - catchers.

    White and Yellow 2010

  • Peter Boyelen, a new patrolman and one unknown to the fisher-folk, happened to arrive in Benicia and we took him into our plan.

    THE SIEGE OF THE 'LANCASHIRE QUEEN' 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Historically, in Bakassi the more numerous Nigerians, mostly village fisher-folk, extended their presence in the area.

    BAKASSI 2008

  • 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.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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