Sentence examples similar to confront a disaster from inspiring English sources

As international aid workers continue to descend upon Port-au-Prince they confront a human disaster that is both unique to Haiti and grimly familiar.

How long will it be before the United States has to confront a spent-fuel disaster like the current one in Japan?

It exhibited remarkable resilience and mobilized primary social organizations, sometimes in unique ways, to confront a multifaceted social disaster.

Over the past year, it has had to confront a series of disasters -- 58 dead Chinese migrants in the back of truck in Dover, 59 immigrants lost in a dinghy off Italy, the corpses of more than 100 Moroccans washed up on the beaches of southern Spain -- that testify to its lure and the desperation of those trying to get in.

The widening environmental calamity in the gulf is the first time Mr. Obama has confronted a domestic disaster.

Once he could do little wrong, but Cook is now the struggling leader of an embattled team who are confronting a sporting disaster.

WASHINGTON — When President Obama dropped in to give a pep talk to workers at the American Red Cross here on Tuesday afternoon, it seemed like a standard ritual for a leader confronting a natural disaster.

The contemporary roster of political and social ills notwithstanding, Mr. Burns and several historians suggest that New York and the nation as a whole confront a more palatable menu of disasters.

Therefore, most of us will never learn how to deal with such incidents, and the same mistakes will be repeated each time unless we take to heart the experiences of those who have been confronted with a disaster.

They say they confront a crisis far worse than they imagined in a country ill-equipped to manage daily life, much less this disaster.

Banks and regulators confront a similar conundrum.