Sentence examples for adopt a disaster from inspiring English sources
7. Capacity is not yet adequate (e.g. human, knowledge/skills and finance at the education institutions) to adopt a disaster risk management approach.
CDERA (which later became the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) in 2009) adopted a comprehensive disaster management approach and national emergency management offices across the Caribbean have followed suit.
Respondents with higher scores on the perception of controllability in the case of a landslide were less likely to adopt a greater number of disaster preparedness behaviors.
This study found that households with higher scores on Probability and Threat were more likely to adopt a greater number of disaster preparedness behaviors (such as preparing necessary items), while households with higher scores on Controllability were less likely to adopt a high total number of disaster preparedness behaviors.
Respondents who received higher scores on the perception of the probability of a landslide, the threat of a landslide, and the place dependence variables were more likely to adopt a greater number of disaster preparedness behaviors.
The local government usually adopts a more conservative disaster response policy because of a lack of technical support in the minority area (Shan 2010).
Mr. Shammam said that armed intervention "would be a disaster" and that adopting a new constitution should happen "under the umbrella of the law — police stations, judges — rather than military councils and the force of arms".
It would be a disaster if regulators adopted a two-tier approach, judging that those banks able to avoid or repay quickly state capital early had more or less vindicated their business models, and that only those unable to pay up required closer oversight.
Existing literature on disaster management adopts a similar approach, albeit different terms are used for CPA.
