Sentence examples for disaster up from inspiring English sources

A clear and insightful report from a marine ecologist who scrutinized the BP oil spill disaster up close.

Thursday brought yet another increased estimate of the scope of the disaster: up to four times BP's misleading original estimates.

As the United Nations warned of a "massive humanitarian disaster", up to 8,000 migrants were believed to be abandoned at sea by smugglers scared off by Thailand's recent crackdown on human traffickers.

Other biographers have attributed the subsequent unraveling of the Waleses' marriage to Charles's cruelty (Andrew Morton) or Diana's mental illness (Sally Bedell Smith), but Brown chalks the disaster up to the bride's naïve belief in a tabloid fiction.

Between March 23 and March 27 , 1913 Indiana and more than a dozen other states experienced major flooding during the Great Flood of 1913; it was Indiana's worst flood disaster up to that time.

Putting the BP disaster up on the radar knocks down the financial reform legislation in the public eye, and gives Wall Street a chance to regroup while our attention is focused elsewhere.

This reviewer, who saw both disasters up close, was struck by the sheer determination of the displaced to return.The next big wave of migration will come from Africa.

Even as the disaster crept up, though, something kept his team united.

By 1961 the rural disaster caught up with the cities, and urban industrial output plummeted by more than 25 percent.

The defense revealed gaping holes and showed shades of former disaster, giving up several big-yardage plays.

But because almost nothing from that disaster shows up in the financial statements, that calculation is not easy to make.