Sentence examples for disaster off from inspiring English sources

But the firm got its initial boost from something much grimmer: a steamboat disaster off the shores of Long Island.

Thirty-two people died in the Costa Concordia disaster off the Tuscan island of Giglio in January 2012.

And it reflected the intense lobbying efforts at work from all sides, as Congress and the administration consider ways to prevent another drilling disaster off the nation's coasts.

Two enormously important oil-tanker spills that took place in European waters were the Torrey Canyon disaster off Cornwall, England, in 1967 (119,000 metric tons of crude oil were spilled) and the Amoco Cadiz disaster off Brittany, France, in 1978 (223,000 metric tons of crude oil and ship fuel were spilled).

The number dead in a migrant boat disaster off Egypt's coast climbed to 148 on Friday as rescuers recovered more bodies from the Mediterranean.

The two former leaders' memoirs show they have learnt no lessons, even though their reputations in history will never be able to shake the disaster off.

The disaster set off wildcat strikes over safety at mines across the country.

The disaster set off talk of whether the pools should be subject to federal regulation.

Mr. Fugate continued: "When a disaster comes off the news and nobody is paying attention, we still don't go home".

It was as though a siren signaling disaster went off and then, just weeks later, there again was a siren, this time announcing "disaster over all clear".

Some see this as a threat a kind of guarantee of an unexpected future disaster set off by an unforeseen market malfunction or hidden miscalculation.