Sentence examples for disaster is off from inspiring English sources

The Rana Plaza disaster is off the front pages.

Lubchenco was speaking from the deck of the NOAA research vessel Thomas Jefferson, which, 43 days into BP's oil-spill disaster, is off on a 10-day effort to take water samples and advanced measurements beneath the surface.

Normally natural disasters are off limits to politicking, at least in the period straight after the event.

The tragedy and tumult of the World Trade Center disaster is spinning off waves of rumors and misinformation, from the mundane to the ridiculous, from the fantastic to the sad.

The disaster was touched off with a small methane gas explosion on Saturday night, which sent almost 300 miners scrambling to the surface.

Investigators concluded weeks ago that the Challenger disaster was set off by a breach of the lower aft joint on the right booster.

David Brooks poses this challenge: "Liberals who think this disaster is going to set off a progressive revival need to explain how a comprehensive governmental failure is going to restore America's faith in big government".

New entitlements are being created, and the money that could be used to ward off fiscal disaster is being used for other things.

Marine biologist Samantha Joye told BBC News that the true extent of the oil disaster is still a long ways off.  .

Although Morgan lost $21 million in the panic, and the significance of the role he played in staving off worse disaster is undisputed, he also became the focus of intense scrutiny and criticism.

A magic chest of stagecraft, it got ten nominations, including Best Play, with competition including Ayad Akhtar's "Junk" (an indictment of nineteen-eighties capitalism) and Lucy Kirkwood's "The Children" (an ethical nail-biter about a nuclear disaster)—both of which have been off the boards for months.