Sentence examples for disaster act from inspiring English sources

heading, and substituted "The Administrator shall provide Federal leadership necessary to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, or mitigate against a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster, including—" for "The Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Emergency Preparedness and Response, shall include—" in introductory provisions.

This year, however, the city has so far been spared any large-scale disaster, act of God, major mechanical breakdown, riveting murder case or police controversy.

A federal statute cited by officials last week as the legal basis for the program gives the National Operations Center the authority "to provide situational awareness" for officials "in the event of a natural disaster, act of terrorism or other man-made disaster" and to "ensure that critical terrorism and disaster-related information reaches government decision makers".

But Hamlet, in a comment on the nature of hamartia, is a fatalist when he broods on the "mole of nature," the "one defect" that some men are born with, "wherein they are not guilty," and that brings them to disaster (Act I, scene 4).

Citing concerns about "harsh winter conditions" and the North Dakota Disaster Act of 1985, Dalrymple said on Monday that all persons at the camp are "ordered to leave the evacuation area immediately, and are further ordered not to return to the evacuation area".

Except to the extent necessary for testing the public alert and warning system, the public alert and warning system shall not be used to transmit a message that does not relate to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster or threat to public safety.

The Energiewende was initiated in the early 1980s because of growing environmental and climate concerns, and the 1989 Chernobyl disaster acted as a catalyst.

Meditating on the human propensity for employing what Mr. Auster calls "magical thinking" to interpret natural disasters, "Act of God" is philosophically ripe but cinematically undercooked.

In a 2007 article for MSNBC, James Oberg, however, argued that a continued emphasis on learning from tragedies like Apollo 1 or the 1986 Challenger and 2003 Columbia space shuttle disasters acts as a way of "ducking a fearsome responsibility" for the mistakes that caused the tragedies.

Risks may also include: disease, inadequate health care, natural disasters, acts of God, war, civil unrest, terrorism, kidnapping and assault, physical violence, verbal abuse, sexual abuse, short and/or long-term disability, loss of income and/or career and earning opportunities.

Or did God do that?" Surprise: Nate's questions reveal that Tom knows - and will tell America - that insurance companies call natural disasters "acts of God" when, actually, there's so much CO2 in the air "we no longer know where nature stops and we start in shaping today's weather".