Sentence examples for disaster the statement from inspiring English sources

Without mentioning the Malaysian airliner disaster, the statement said it was "concerned that the recent and ongoing developments in Ukraine and the reaction of the international community will lead to disruption in trade and business relations between Russia and the UK".

"The storm and subsequent blackout in South Australia underline the vital importance of energy security and the vulnerability of our increasingly complex electricity system to natural disasters," the statement says.

Hayward was heavily criticised for his reaction to the Deepwater Horizon disaster including the statement, "I want my life back", that led to accusations of insensitivity.

"Although the Three Gorges project provides huge comprehensive benefits, urgent problems must be resolved regarding the smooth relocation of residents, ecological protection and geological disaster prevention," the statement said.

Yet beyond the catalogue of damage and the lists of culprits, much of which has been reported in the press in the three months since the disaster, the Politburo statement offered only a new hint about what had caused the explosion in the fourth reactor - an unspecified and unauthorized experiment.

Television is, of course, as good at creating beautiful lies as memoirs are, and Mortenson's ineptitude at managing this PR disaster, driven home by the statement he sent to supporters yesterday, in which he vows to fight the allegations but offers no specifics, might, in an earlier era, have been reassuring.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Television is, of course, as good at creating beautiful lies as memoirs are, and Mortenson's ineptitude at managing this PR disaster, driven home by the statement he sent to supporters yesterday, in which he vows to fight the allegations but offers no specifics, might, in an earlier era, have been reassuring.

"The US is a gang of cruel robbers which has worked hard to bring even a nuclear disaster to the DPRK," the statement said, calling the country's new weapon an "H-bomb of justice, standing against the US".

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) confirmed the sheer scale of the disaster in a statement issued last November.

"They were just trying to score a cheap news cycle hit based on the embassy statement and now it's just completely blown up," said a very senior Republican foreign policy hand, who called the statement an "utter disaster" and a "Lehman moment" – a parallel to the moment when John McCain, amid the 2008 financial crisis, failed to come across as a steady leader.

Nevertheless, homeland security has just issued its own sweeping disaster policy statement claiming the coordinator's role for its own department secretary.