The North American Free Trade Agreement will be 20 years old in 2014, and all those who predicted it would bring about disaster have long gone silent.
During the late Vedic period the complexities of ritual were emphasized to such an extent that only highly trained Brahmans could carry them out correctly, and it was maintained that improperly or incorrectly performed rites could, unless rectified, bring about disaster or death.
…You're all the same, all of you, Yvonne, Jacques, you, Hugh, trying to interfere with other people's lives, interfering, interfering…that's precisely what's bringing about disaster in the world… Remember the Consul's youthful disgrace on a British warship named — wait for it — the S.S. Samaritan?
In fact, it's just the opposite: WIPP and two German-based DGRs have brought about disaster with radioactive leaks and structural deterioration costing billions of euros in remediation.
If only morality operated with the efficiency of a GPS: When Christian (Claes Bang), the museum's curator and the public face of its newest exhibit, gets his phone stolen, his attempts to track it down bring about one disaster after another.
China's response to the campaign has been the most forceful, warning that the assault could bring about a "humanitarian disaster".
Ideally, Matteo Renzi, Italy's prime minister, would seize on this disaster to bring about real change with draconian new sanctions.
Third, in the wake of radiation damage at the Fukushima nuclear power plant (and possibly other nuclear sites), the disaster may bring about a major shift in the political acceptance of Japan's reliance on nuclear energy.
It seeks to bring about "the substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health and in the economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets of persons, businesses, communities and countries" (UNISDR 2015, p. 6).
Margaret Aspinall, whose 18-year-old son, James, died at Hillsborough, said the disaster helped bring about changes "hopefully for the good of other people".
This type of natural disaster may bring about the extinction of rare species, including Tricyrtis taxa, reinforcing warnings on speciation events and possible sudden loss of biodiversity in the very dynamic and active Earth environment.
