Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon is a powerful, if somewhat austere portrait of social breakdown, Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces is a beautifully put-together melodrama that nonetheless lacks the sparkle of his best work, and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is either a confident, if slighty skewiff return to form or an ill-conceived disaster, depending on who you ask.
In her book The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein shows how disaster capitalism was conceived by the extreme neoliberals at the University of Chicago.
International coverage of the demonstrations in Paris and London has been a public relations disaster for Beijing, which conceived the torch relay as "a journey of harmony".
Of Sicily's own form of Baroque, post 1693, it has been said, "The buildings conceived in the wake of this disaster expressed a light-hearted freedom of decoration whose incongruous gaiety was intended, perhaps, to assuage the horror".
As reported first in the Oklahoman, the blanket was conceived to protect children during natural disasters.
Whereas earlier Jewish writers, the Prophets, had foretold the coming of disasters, often in esoteric language, they neither placed these disasters in a narrative framework nor conceived of them in eschatological terms.
For example, the latest threat to the economy was conceived in Washington as a deterrent — a planned disaster that is never supposed to happen.
Factor in some of my terrible pieces that I conceived decades ago and you have the making for disaster.
In order to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of land use planning and emergency panning policies and strategies in EU, the Italian regulations and guidelines are used as example to discuss the distance between the European and national regulation and the disaster management and post-disaster procedures, that together with the land use planning are often conceived for a Municipal scale.
Perhaps the best defence for such a disaster is to have a contingency plan in place, to have well conceived and developed plans well known in advance and rehearsed, in order to limit the damage a natural disaster like SARS can unleash.
Produced by the performance collective Shunt, creators of the half-comic, half-macabre aeroplane disaster show The Ballad of Bobby François, this piece was conceived after Shunt's David Rosenberg "died" on stage during one of the group's monthly cabaret performances.
