Sentence examples for disaster about from inspiring English sources

I will never stand over the ball without considering the disaster about to befall me.

Central banks were unaware of the disaster about to hit them, he warned.

In Aceh province, the area hardest hit by the disaster, about 170,000 were said to have died.

Thus, of the roughly 1,500 people killed in the disaster, about 1,160 bodies remain lost.

He even comes up with the standard army line, after any disaster, about wanting to get 'back to the job'.

ANNALS OF DISASTER about the sinking of the Fantome, a Caribbean pleasure cruiser during Hurricane Mitch in 1998, and the subsequent lawsuit.

And this natural disaster brings about and heightens its visibility.

Every year, up to 175 million children are likely to be affected by natural disasters brought about by climate change.

The annual death toll due to natural disasters is about 16,000, and direct economic loss accounts for 3-63-6% China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) [ 1].

In the worst of the migrant disasters, about 250 people drowned in April when a boat capsized off the coast of Lampedusa.

They can't grasp the nuance, the complexity; they can't distinguish between what is and isn't important; they confuse trivialities with disasters about to smash through our door, and vice versa.