Sentence examples for disaster pressure from inspiring English sources

But it was clear that after the April 24 Rana Plaza disaster, pressure was mounting on H&M — known as a purveyor of "cheap chic" and a leader in the so-called fast-fashion business, which relies on rapid turnarounds from order to delivery — to make good on past promises to help improve labor conditions in Bangladesh.

Vulnerability to natural disasters falls into three categories: exposure, resistance, and resilience, where resilience mainly refers to the capability of a pressure-bearing system to recover by returning to its initial state, that is, the ability to adapt to disaster pressure.

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Landscape events (like the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster) create pressure on socio-technical regimes which result in problems that regimes cannot solve from within.

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board, in its final report on the Columbia disaster, said pressures to meet flight schedules appeared to have caused some NASA managers to shortchange safety issues.

As the disaster grows and pressure from the outside world intensifies, the junta faces a dilemma.

In an extraordinary moment on Wednesday night, reporters from Canal 9 apologised to the relatives of the victims for their coverage of the disaster, blaming political pressure.

There was almost a disaster when air pressure on the plane forced open the jar carrying the starter – a fermented mixture of water and wild yeast that is used to help the bread rise.

Compounding the tragedy, the company never alerted federal monitors to three earlier outbursts — the last only three days before the disaster — in which pressure from above caused coal to explode from winnowed supports.

We can simply say that factories are moving towards better conditions," said Amin, who took part in protests on Oxford Street in London on Thursday to mark the anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster and put pressure on companies that have yet to pay into a compensation fund for victims.

His Primordial Soup disaster, when a pressure cooker exploded and flung soup "ceilingward at a speed of thirty miles per second" before it became, as he said, "edible stalactites" had him filled with wonder, another virtue.