Sentence examples for disaster noted from inspiring English sources

While some in the scientific community question that birth defects and retardation are directly attributable to the disaster, noted scientist Alexei Okeanov [of the International Sakharov Environmental University in Minsk, Belarus] calls it 'a fire that can't be put out in our lifetimes'".

"I remember hearing that … this was going to be a disaster," noted Counts, an associate of Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

"[T]he Iraq War was a disaster," noted Bush's chief re-election strategist, Matthew Dowd while appearing on ABC's This Week earlier this year.

"Then there are also FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] regulations, if you get assistance for rebuilding, that only support building in certain kinds of ways in certain places," usually the same place as the disaster, noted Birch.

A business plan circulated eight days before the disaster noted "key risks" for 2005 -- including "safety not being viewed as the #1 priority" and the prospect that the refinery "kills someone in the next 12-18 month[s]." (BP recently announced plans to sell the refinery, along with one in California, perhaps by 2013).

But a report in The Times praised local people's response to the disaster, noting how the crowd kept quiet so the cries of trapped victims could be heard.

Speich described the share price performance as a disaster, noting that the bank's market value of around €20bn was less than the amount raised from shareholders since the financial crisis.

Makrygiannis refers in an email to the "Nokia disaster", noting that its hope as a Finnish startup is to offer the sparks of rebirth after such a high profile national business failure.

In a post from late-February, the Electronic Frontier Foundation called the potential bill "a disaster," noting that the onus for policing content would fall exclusively in the hands of sites hosting third-party content.

Russian officials and their eastern Ukraine proxies accused Kiev authorities of responsibility for the disaster, noting that air-traffic control and flight safety are government-run operations.

Keibel called attention to the stained glass windows, which were crafted in 1991 as a tribute to the disaster, noting that they could be dismantled and remounted at the memorial site.