Sentence examples for disasters about from inspiring English sources

In the worst of the migrant disasters, about 250 people drowned in April when a boat capsized off the coast of Lampedusa.

After purely natural disasters, about 95 percent of those directly affected typically shake off disabling feelings of sadness or grief in the first year, experts say; just eight months after Hurricane Ivan leveled Orange Beach, Ala., in 2004, about three-quarters of people thought the town was back on track, researchers found.

It is more like some drawing-room comedy-farce in which the drawing room in question is big and fuselage-shaped, and the cockpit, where the big, secret issues must be bickeringly discussed, is akin to the kitchen where the host and his wife must frantically cover up the disasters about to befall their guests.

They can't grasp the nuance, the complexity; they can't distinguish between what is and isn't important; they confuse trivialities with disasters about to smash through our door, and vice versa.

"UNICEF will continue its efforts with government and partners to help communities recover and to build more resilient structures and services to help lessen the impact on children during future disasters," # # # About UNICEF UNICEF promotes the rights and wellbeing of every child, in everything we do.

Every year, up to 175 million children are likely to be affected by natural disasters brought about by climate change.

The annual death toll due to natural disasters is about 16,000, and direct economic loss accounts for 3-63-6% China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) [ 1].

And this natural disaster brings about and heightens its visibility.

Thus, of the roughly 1,500 people killed in the disaster, about 1,160 bodies remain lost.

I will never stand over the ball without considering the disaster about to befall me.

Central banks were unaware of the disaster about to hit them, he warned.