Sentence examples for decisive disaster from inspiring English sources

Sir Steven Runciman, in his "History of the Crusades", noted that "The Battle of Manzikert was the most decisive disaster in Byzantine history.

Housing reconstruction programmes play a decisive role on the disaster recovery and providing temporary housing is a crucial step of these programmes.

The rise in urban violence certainly played a decisive role in the American disaster.

It was not till after 24 hours or even more that we knew about the real scale of this disaster, though we were very decisive in our actions.

News that the ozone layer is showing signs of recovery – 27 years after a ban on the manmade chemicals that damaged it – is welcome evidence that decisive international action can avert self-imposed disaster.

The Americans have so far only managed to take home decisive victories in the fields of natural disasters and reality television, though we hope to rebound in 2014.

In the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, veterans Jake Wood and William McNulty realized a simple truth: The skills cultivated on the battlefield -- emergency medicine, risk assessment and mitigation, teamwork and decisive leadership -- are invaluable in natural disasters.

"If the people had not been as decisive the creditors would have led us into disaster," he said.

It is only decisive action like this that can prevent the disaster in Chennai from becoming the new normal.

President Obama's announcement that the United States' will protect 40,000 Yazidis trapped on Sinjar Mountain in northern Iraq is a decisive and timely response to an unfolding humanitarian disaster.

The estimates, though rough, could complicate China's efforts to move on from its latest environmental disaster: Dalian's mayor already declared a "decisive victory" in the oil spill cleanup, state media reported this week.