Sentence examples for a permanent disaster from inspiring English sources

"A football field of marsh is being washed into the ocean every 30 minutes," said Ouchley. Bob Marshall, an environmental reporter for The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, put the BP spill in the right context when he wrote: "We need to remember this is a temporary problem on top of a permanent disaster.

The Old Guard has also managed to add a $5 billion "permanent disaster" program (excuse me, but isn't a permanent disaster a contradiction in terms?) to help farmers in the High Plains struggling to grow crops in a drought-prone region that, as the chronic need for disaster aid suggests, might not be the best place to grow crops.

A permanent disaster management structure should be put in place independent of other branches of the DDES, with regional as well as local organs each with a certain degree of operational autonomy.

For DRR to be effective in Cameroon, a permanent disaster management unit with regional and local structures should be put in place independent of other branches of the Department of Disaster and Emergency Services of MINATD and with each level exercising a significant degree of operative autonomy.

And while the comedian acknowledged some people's point that it was "about sensitivity" and that "you don't wear things like that to a disaster zone," he said that the first lady "lives in a permanent disaster zone and that's what she always wears".

And if it excited some of his supporters, it is still being dissected by other nervous Republicans who see Mr. Schundler's brand of conservative Republicanism as a recipe for permanent disaster for the party.

Large parts of Africa will become permanent disaster areas.

Do we consider mistakes permanent disasters, or the correctable by-products of experimentation?

"California is a permanent state of disaster.

A permanent possibility of disaster is nothing new in the American story, though.

People living in areas of the Earth that will be turned into semi-permanent disaster zones by global warming will have a rather limited ability to benefit from Wellcome Trust-funded medical research.