Sentence examples for become disaster from inspiring English sources

Plenty of space is needed (here the rivals agree) if flood is not to become disaster.

Failure to do so, said Bergkamp, would condemn the cities of the future to disease and poverty – "if we don't make them into viable, thriving areas of growth and economic prosperity, they basically become disaster zones in terms of human disaster and wasted opportunity".

In our own lives today, we watch the arrogance of some modern global corporations and some governmental organzations become disaster.

Vacations disappear; health crises become disasters.

As the world becomes more populated and cities grow ever bigger, the potential for quakes to become disasters rises.

Hazards only become disasters when a population or society's capacity to cope within existing resources is overwhelmed.

One problem for Nasdaq these days is that many companies it used to promote have become disasters for investors.

But each technological malfunction provides fuel for critics who argue that today's market structure can allow digital errors to become disasters.

Mistras Group (MG, 24) provides the engineers and technology required to find flaws in the structural integrity of pipelines, refineries, power plants and bridges before such problems become disasters.

Hewitt ([1983]) reinforced the observation of White ([1945]) that natural hazards become disasters primarily due to social factors rather than physical ones.

Utilities and regulators should be "looking for trouble before it happens," upgrading infrastructure and sniffing out leaks before they become disasters, Conley said.