Sentence examples for causing disaster from inspiring English sources

While workmen were blasting out the Holland Tunnel, in 1924, the protective layer of clay deposited over the blast area to keep the explosions from blowing a hole in the river bottom and causing disaster to the tunnel-diggers rose high enough that it impeded ships.

The Rhine's maximum flow without causing disaster will be raised from 15,000 cubic metres a second to 16,000 and, eventually, 18,000.The Noordwaard polder south-east of Rotterdam was floodplain until 1973, when the delta works made it suitable for cattle and vegetables.

Straps, shoelaces, and anything hanging down can get caught in the escalator, causing disaster.

You can see the same thing happening across the Thames watershed: 184 miles of idiocy, perfectly calibrated to cause disaster.

Unfortunately, the conditions that encourage a successful controlled burn are not markedly different from those that can cause disaster.

But the history of aviation safety is littered with cases in which unforeseen combinations of circumstances have caused disaster.

"Corrupt officials who do not die just continue to cause disaster after disaster," said one post on Friday on Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging service similar to Twitter.

This could cause disaster, "for a complex adaptive system is in big trouble when a critical mass of its constituents loses faith in its viability".

An optimist would point out that the rest of the region's security problems are at least half a century old, and have not caused disaster yet.

Weak dollars cause disaster.

But the idea that money manipulation is smart policy has repeatedly caused disaster.