Sentence examples for disasters posed from inspiring English sources

A dramatic reminder of the threat that natural disasters posed to museums came in August when punishing Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Frequent natural hazard-induced disasters posed a prominent threat to agriculture, the economic pillar at the time, and the safety of the Chinese people, forcing the government to put the focus of disaster policy and management on agricultural production.

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.

Petrochemical complexes in fire disasters pose a high environmental risk because large fires and explosions can cause injuries, fatalities, and devastation.

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.

Second, climate change and disasters pose major obstacles in the fight against poverty.

These oft-overlooked disasters pose a threat not only to the well-being of humans and a ship's cargo and equipment, but to the environment as well.

This time, he issued an executive order that wipes out one of the most progressive standards of our time for reducing the taxpayer costs and risks that weather disasters pose for new roads, bridges, railroads, electric transmission lines and other infrastructure.

Background: Disasters pose a serious risk to children's access to quality education.

Although Bangladesh is on track to achieve the MDG target for access to safe drinking water, arsenic contamination, increased salinity in groundwater in the coastal belt, declining groundwater levels, susceptibility to the impact of natural disasters pose significant risks to the availability of safe drinking water.

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