Sentence examples for cost of disaster from inspiring English sources
I may ignore this, but only at the cost of disaster.
So the claim that fiscal responsibility requires immediate spending cuts to offset the cost of disaster relief is just wrong, in both theory and practice.
Mr. Eisenman said he was not unsympathetic to the Republicans' argument that Congress should partly offset the cost of disaster relief by cutting lower-priority programs.
The latest dispute revolved around the question of how much, if any, of the cost of disaster assistance should be offset by cuts elsewhere in the federal budget.
Representative Bill Pascrell Jr., Democrat of New Jersey, denounced the Republicans' determination to offset some of the cost of disaster relief.
The new accounting involves spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Medicare reimbursements to physicians and the cost of disaster responses.
Pielke claims, "When you read that the cost of disasters is increasing, it's tempting to think that it must be because more storms are happening.
He said that the internationally agreed Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction, which was adopted last year, offered the best way to reduce the human and financial cost of disasters.
But there is a problem with instruments like these: They tend to focus on relatively short-term risks, and don't hedge against the increasing cost of disasters over distant future years.
