To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.

The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.

The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.

The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.

Core API used to trap Exceptions with begin: begin ... some buggy code ... # rescues all errors rescue {code block} # or rescue only [errortype] e.g StandardError rescue [errortype] {code block} # display any text associated rescue StandardError = ouch print ouch ouch.backtrace.each {|x| print x} # optional statement always runs before # exiting begin section ensure {code block} end

Describes the process whereby patients who have received ablative therapy are 'rescued' by a stem cell transplant

When a business in trouble is turned round into a viable business through outside intervention.

The saving of life endangered by fire or a person trapped in a vehicle due to an automobile accident. Generally employed in the sense of assistance to persons unable to help themselves, although loosely used to describe assistance rendered to persons in danger or trouble.

a lot of hard work and a twenty-four / seven donation of one's time

a network of skills, experience, and help for owners, breeders and other volunteers

a strictly volunteer organization and would welcome the donation of your vehicle

a Vizsla from various types of shelters, owners no longer able to take care for their dog(s), strays or abandoned

A program or organization that takes in homeless, stray, surrendered, neglected and/or abused pets, provides the necessary care and works to find them permanent homes.

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