Sentence examples for disaster like a from inspiring English sources

There is no dress rehearsal for the days-long outages that are likely to follow a severe disaster like a hurricane.

I wanted to call but I held firm, even as I imagined a disaster like a flood in the basement or an electrical fire.

"The question is: can you go over the top without a disaster, like a worldwide plague or a nuclear war between India and Pakistan?

A Ford spokesman, Mark Truby, said the company is well-financed and nowhere close to a financial disaster, like a bankruptcy filing.

Just because it does not look like a disaster, like a tsunami, it does not make this crisis any less urgent".

Mr. Yaroslavsky, the county supervisor, said construction was slightly ahead of schedule, meaning a disaster like a failure to reopen the freeway before people headed to work on Monday morning is likely to be averted.

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster, like an earthquake, or a hurricane — maybe especially one that happens the week before a Presidential election — to remind people what their taxes pay for.

Despite the seemingly light-hearted nature of the drill, the zoo's authorities said that it was completely necessary to ensure staff knew their roles if an animal escaped during a disaster like an earthquake.

While a natural disaster like an earthquake can't be planned for, Mr. Rao said that completing more of the highway work outside of the monsoon season would have helped.

Zuckerberg explained that the Paris terror attacks marked the first time the company has enabled Safety Check for a human disaster, not a natural disaster like an earthquake.

The attacks in Paris were the first time Facebook deployed Safety Check for a human disaster, rather than a natural disaster, like an earthquake or tsunami.