She confronts disaster, or potential disaster, straight on, with the bright face of her will.
From the Oklahoma City bombings to 9/11, from the tsunami in South Asia to Hurricane Katrina, Americans have rallied to confront disaster natural or man-made, domestic or abroad with the determination, compassion and unity that have defined our nation since its founding.
In 1920, during the Polish-Soviet War, he confronted disaster, riding on horseback with a Cossack unit of the Red Army while contributing propaganda to the army's daily newspaper.
If not confronted, disaster risks – exacerbated by climate change – are likely to compromise the impressive improvements in children's lives that have been achieved in recent decades.
The population pouring into this effervescent area is dominated by creatives and freelancers who rent — and thus confront disasters with cured meats more than plywood.
So far, to the good fortune of the nation — and, even, the world — the President has had to confront disasters only of his own making, like firing Comey and promulgating executive orders that discriminate against religious and ethnic minorities.
It's easy to attack me, I'm a right twerp, I'm a junkie and a cheeky monkey, I accept it, but that doesn't detract from the incontrovertible fact that we are living in a time of huge economic disparity and confronting ecological disaster.
By selecting appropriate indicators to represent these three dimensions, the RIM framework can be transformed to measure community resilience in confronting various disasters in different places and to identify key variables that affect that resiliency.
Fateless was first published in 1975 and it ironically acknowledges that progressive forces in postwar Hungary tried to confront the disaster.
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