Sentence examples for against disasters from inspiring English sources

And cautious homeowners can also protect themselves against disasters ranging from windstorms and floods to earthquakes.

But even wealthy nations are not well insured against disasters such as this one.

"I hope you will not only fight against disasters, but also maintain public security on such occasions.

Literacy, sanitation and electrification might all very well be considered better uses of taxpayers' rupees than guarding against disasters that could strike anywhere, or not at all.

This program gives the byte a quick health-check to see whether a copy needs to be retrieved from a back-up tape on another network, probably a long way away, set up to guard against disasters such as earthquakes.

We've set up commercial micro-finance initiatives that have disbursed more than £1bn to people otherwise unable to borrow for their businesses or insure against disasters, in countries including Indonesia, Haiti, Philippines and Niger.

What argument do some environmentalists make against disaster aid? k.

In closed agrarian societies, families need a lot of children as insurance against disaster.

Still, Tézenas's images belie the simple moralizing that's often wielded against disaster tourism.

For them, a family of eight may be the only insurance against disaster.

Hedging against disaster is one thing; trying to make a big score from it is another.