Sentence examples for deadly catastrophe from inspiring English sources

But the move also turns Mr. Kan into essentially a lame duck even as he must still guide his nation out of its most deadly catastrophe since World War II.

How about this: this beast, as she lovingly calls it, not only pollutes the air and wastes fuel (fostering our dependence on foreign oil), but also turns the old-fashioned highway fender-bender into a deadly catastrophe.

After the deadly catastrophe at Rana Plaza, the factory building outside Dhaka that collapsed last April, retailers came together to form two separate pacts: the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety and the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety.

"How you cover that remaining group of factories is a big question". After the deadly catastrophe at Rana Plaza, the factory building outside Dhaka that collapsed last April, retailers came together to form two separate pacts: the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety and the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety.

Jim Qwilleran and his two cats probe a string of deadly catastrophes.

No amount of reality — technical and management weaknesses that led to either deadly catastrophes or astronomic costs — ever came close to overcoming the dreaming (and old-fashioned politics) that carried the shuttle program forward from start to finish.

A week on, the Rana Plaza catastrophe in Bangladesh is now the deadliest catastrophe in the history of the garment industry, with the death toll exceeding 500.

It also is among the city's deadliest catastrophes: hundreds more lives were lost in the Eastland disaster than in the Chicago fire of 1871.

A museum show opening this weekend in Newport News, Va .will focus on the story of two Americans who survived the deadly Costa Concordia catastrophe off the coast of Italy in January.

In October 2006, the Democratic Republic of Congo, which experienced possibly the world's deadliest humanitarian catastrophe, held the second of two rounds of the first free presidential elections in 46 years.

If the death toll is as high as is feared, Haiyan could emerge as the deadliest natural catastrophe in the Philippines' history.