Sentence examples for disaster poses from inspiring English sources

The disaster poses a challenge to a government already struggling to address the needs of the third of the population that lives in poverty.

Every disaster poses similar challenges: knowing when to speak to the press and what to say; how to develop "no regrets" actions; how to communicate with decision-makers and the public; how to keep proprietary industry information confidential; how to get rapid, actionable peer review of relevant analyses and proposed actions.

"Individual storytelling about individuals is heart-wrenching, but if we focus on micro we may not get to the bigger problems a disaster poses," said Berger.

This unprecedented disaster poses many difficult environmental health challenges.

The Environmental Protection Agency said the disaster posed "imminent and substantial endangerment to the public health".

The potential negative effects of a shutdown were real but overblown, especially when weighed against the potential disaster posed by Obamacare's implementation.

When Hurricane Charley hit the Florida Coast, the disaster posed the biggest challenge for the Federal Emergency Management Agency since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the first test of the agency's ability since it was absorbed by the Department of Homeland Security.

Making matters worse, politics has so far prevented the delivery of more than piecemeal assistance from the Indian-administered part of Kashmir.After October's quake, aid workers were quick to recognise that despite killing fewer people (some 80,000) than the tsunami, this disaster posed an even greater challenge to the world's ability to rescue those in need.

This new emphasis was spurred in part by the devastation and loss of life caused by the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in December 2004 as well as the potential disaster posed by avian and pandemic influenza.

An emergency response fund governed by the needs of those at the sharp end of disasters poses a direct challenge to the influence of national interests, donor agendas, and the technocratic fixation on narrow measurements of accountability that permeate the ranks of government aid agencies and foundations.

Recent experiences in the United States with unprecedented terrorist attacks (9/11) and a devastating natural disaster (Hurricane Katrina) have demonstrated that the medical care of mass casualties during such disasters poses ethical problems not normally experienced in civilian health care.