Sentence examples for disasters reducing from inspiring English sources

The department's focus on fighting terrorism has also distracted attention from coping with natural disasters, reducing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from a cabinet-level agency into a neglected stepchild.

Knowing the ULP status is crucial for making decisions to avoid ecological disasters, reducing environmental problems and industrial pollution, and harmonizing urban development and natural conservation.

A child's right to protection from the risks of disasters: reducing vulnerability 10.

And a clean image — one attained by, say, avoiding oil spills and other environmental disasters — reduces criticism from employees, consumers and government.

Her performances with Tito Puente and other bandleaders in the 1960's made her a club and recording star on both American continents before mismanagement of contracts and a scarcely believable series of personal disasters reduced her to poverty and oblivion; she died in her Bronx apartment in 1992.

In Barro and Lee (1993), most of the macroeconomic factors are positively associated with growth and negatively associated with disaster risk: disasters reduce the investment rate and raise government consumption expenditure.

The destruction of homes, schools and health centres resulting from natural disasters reduce services available to families.

However, the couple's "extravagant" spending, both during their marriage and after their "bitterly contested" break-up in 2013, brought them "to the brink of financial disaster", reducing multi-million-pound family assets to just £560,000.

Satinath Sarangi, an advocate for the victims, characterized the verdict as "the world's worst industrial disaster reduced to a traffic accident".

This disaster reduced the number of legions to 25 (it did not reach 28 again until half a century later), and it disheartened Augustus.

The Meekers had borrowed to finance the trip, and the losses from this disaster reduced Ezra Meeker to near penury.