Sentence examples for conventional disasters from inspiring English sources
Destroying states without such malign intentions produces more conventional disasters.
My recent research into conventional disasters suggests that climate change, despite its unconventional scale, is unfolding in ways familiar from the aftermaths of numerous hurricanes and earthquakes: the ruling elites too often "lead" by creating a second wave of destruction, while the rest of us pick up the pieces and do our best to do what's necessary.
The trouble with conventional disaster planning is its focus on catastrophes like hurricanes and dirty-bomb attacks, she said.
If this had been a conventional disaster, the United Nations would have come in and then the big aid agencies would have got busy.
The film's second half is much more like a conventional disaster movie, both of the art-house (eg Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice) and Hollywood (eg Stanley Kramer's On the Beach) variety.
For a conventional disaster, the current identification process is effective but what would happen with a CBRN disaster?
The survey found that foreigners proficient in Japanese demonstrated similar information gathering behavior as Japanese respondents, and thus their needs may be covered by conventional disaster mitigation planning that focuses on the general Japanese population.
The goal of the institute's investigation, its officials said, is to produce a comprehensive set of recommendations before the end of next year as to how tall buildings might be constructed differently or emergencies handled differently to try to reduce casualties in the event of a terrorist attack or a conventional building disaster, like a major fire.
Local community members will be consulted whose life experience is very essential to understating the status quo of community environment as well as evaluating community's conventional practices under disaster emergencies and the level of disaster literacy.
[C8.] Economic Effect Far From Certain The conventional wisdom is that disasters have only a modest effect on the economy because human capital -- the knowledge and skills of the citizenry -- survives.
The conventional wisdom is that disasters, natural and otherwise, typically have only a modest effect on economic activity because human capital -- the knowledge and skills embodied in the citizenry -- survives intact.
