Sentence examples for catastrophic emergency from inspiring English sources

"It's a catastrophic emergency," said Pascal Ngoga, Rwanda's ambassador to the African Union, which is based here in the Ethiopian capital.

The plants' problems were described as serious but were far short of a catastrophic emergency like the partial core meltdown that occurred at the Three Mile Island plant near Harrisburg, Pa., in 1979.

In 2007, for example, George Bush signed into place the National Security Presidential Directive, which claims the power to execute certain orders in the event of a catastrophic emergency – President Obama also signed a National Preparedness executive order in 2012.

The catastrophic emergency situations often observed in semi-arid areas of East Africa are attributable to negative deviations in the availability of water and pasture resources (Hailegiorgis et al. 2010; Njiru 2012).

This arrangement allows the crew to abandon ship quickly in case of a catastrophic emergency.

Rupture of a malignant neoplasm is a catastrophic emergency due to the risk of rapid exsanguination.

"We are looking for their findings and recommendations on how we can better prepare to meet any catastrophic emergencies as they occur," Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said.

Our enemy is not each other but the terrorists who attacked us, murdered our loved ones and continue to offer a threat to our security, safety and survival.... Catastrophic emergencies and attacks have acts of great heroism attached to them.

Considering the high frequency of primary headache in ER during routine social sanitary activity, it is conceivable that the incidence of this condition may dramatically increase during catastrophic emergencies.

These are catastrophic emergencies for the most part, like the one that is currently ravaging people in the urban slums and causing the suffering of not just hundreds, but hundreds of thousands.

"The operators were faced with a catastrophic, unprecedented emergency scenario with no power, reactor control or instrumentation," the report said.