Sentence examples for disaster law from inspiring English sources

Disaster law promises to become an increasingly important subject over the course of this century.

International climate change and disaster law both give currency to the notion of integration.

FEMA officials said they were sympathetic but were bound by a federal disaster law known as the Stafford Act, which leaves out co-ops and condos.

To quote from the Feb. 19 obituary in The New York Times, he was "considered the founder of air disaster law".

The state disaster law does not supersede either the state or federal Constitutions, said Kenneth M. Murchison, a law professor at Louisiana State University.

But Ms. Yingluck said Friday that she would begin strictly enforcing a natural disaster law that stops short of a state of emergency but that gives her the right to make final decisions on emergency steps.

Advocates for storm victims say FEMA has resisted providing details about its programs to them or to applicants and has whittled down rolls by imposing obstacles to obtaining aid that is mandated under federal disaster laws.

Election Day brings with it the tantalizing possibility that voters in Arizona will do what should have been done years ago: end the career of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, the self-appointed, self-promoting scourge of illegal immigrants whose five-term reign has been a disaster for law enforcement, county budgets, the lives of immigrants and Latinos and the rule of law.

The disaster relief law is vague on how it should be applied, so presidents have great latitude.

Rape is commonly used as a weapon of war, often as a means of ethnic cleansing, and the number of rapes perpetrated increases at times of political instability or after a natural disaster, when law enforcement is weak.

(Here's the latest update on trends in coal mining safety from Joseph A. Main, the assistant secretary of labor for Mine Safety and Health. Also please read Ken Ward Jr.'s update on West Virginia mine safety legislation: "Written in Blood: Another Disaster, Another Law").