Sentence examples for disaster financing from inspiring English sources

Mr. Reid batted away the idea that Republicans would seek offsets for disaster financing for the next fiscal year.

In addition, the package would seek to wrap up some other Congressional business, including a one-year extension of the anti-terror Patriot Act, and provisions related to flood insurance, small business loans and disaster financing for Arkansas and Mississippi.

He has played the role of adjudicator for Congressional Republicans before, during last year's fight over a payroll tax extension and the battle between Democrats and Republicans over how, or if, to pay for an emergency disaster financing bill.

A presidential commission tasked with redesigning our national disaster financing strategy could quantify risk in dollar terms and make it very clear who was responsible for what — whether private or public risk was involved.

WASHINGTON — The Senate reached a bipartisan spending agreement on Monday to avert a government shutdown, sidestepping a bitter impasse over disaster financing after federal authorities said they could most likely squeak through the rest of this week with the $114 million they had on hand.

From a long-term perspective, disasters may aid in the economic development of the developing and underdeveloped countries by initiating a flow of funds and resources through post-disaster financing.

For measures to extend student loan rates or payroll tax cuts, aid states hit by natural disasters, finance the United Nations and keep the government running, House Republican prescriptive social policy amendments have been their undoing, alienating Democrats, yet often not going far enough for their most conservative blocs.

The bank called on governments to develop and implement comprehensive disaster risk financing strategies to provide adequate and timely support to strengthen financial resilience.

The company that is "the heart of the industry's plan to contain the oil," the Marine Spill Response Corporation, a nonprofit organization formed in 1990 after the Exxon disaster and financed by fees from the largest oil corporations, has no budget for research.

Jongman, B. et al. Increasing stress on disaster-risk finance due to large floods.

[BBC] The Tokyo Electric Power Company will in effect be nationalized for at least 10 years under a government body's plan for financing disaster compensation, the Kyodo news agency reports.