Sentence examples for disaster at hand from inspiring English sources

But a catch-22 emerges when the disaster at hand is, by its nature, an extreme disruption of routine.

But the emphasis on Sunday, made by the governor and others, was on the cooperation that has sprung up amid the disaster at hand.

The 911 system is limited by the number of phone lines, dispatchers, and resources that can be deployed – and it quickly became overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster at hand, in the case of Harvey's flood victims.

But for the most part in this effective disaster thriller, he keeps the flag-waving jingoism to a minimum, to focus on the devastating tragedy at hand.

Delayed by a day, this game was the 19-8 disatthe at thandsnds of the Yankees, and the worst Boston drubbing ever suffered in a post-season.

Disaster at the hands of a mentally troubled US service member struck again in September 2013, when an aviation electrician in the navy, Aaron Alexis, walked into a secure navy yard in Washington, DC, and shot dead 12 people.

To hear television anchors most days is to think that disaster is perpetually at hand.

And so disaster may be at hand, but no one seems invigorated by the suspense.

In both cases, she said, simple reassurance that disaster was not at hand proved an effective sedative.

My parents didn't spend money, because they lived with the idea that disaster was close at hand, that a liver-function test would come back marked with a doctor's urgent scrawl, that they would be fired from their jobs because their English did not suffice.

And yet the threat of disaster is often close at hand.