Sentence examples for disasters spread from inspiring English sources

He criticised "materialistic technology" in his eight-minute speech and said greed had "unbalanced the ecosystems, contaminated the environments, caused natural disasters, spread epidemics, induced wars and hence endangered all sentient beings now and in future", according to an official translation of his speech.

Along with electricity and water, the media are too often a service that fails during disasters, spreading rumors and falling back on stereotypes and false beliefs rather than carefully reporting the facts.

A video about the 2008 housing-market disaster "spread like a California wildfire in an abandoned housing development".

News of the disaster spread quickly, and aid soon arrived from within Canada as well as from the United States.

Where are they spending the money?" As news of the disaster spread, people from nearby villages were the first to arrive to help.

In a similar way, faint radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spread around the globe and reached the West Coast in 10 days, its levels detectable but minuscule.

As the subprime disaster spread in 2007 and 2008, one trader said he mismarked the bonds to please his superiors; another said the fraud was intended to keep him in line for a rich bonus.

In a similar way, radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spread around the globe and reached the West Coast of the United States in 10 days, its levels detectable but minuscule.

LYKOSHINO, Russia — Rudolf Denyayev climbed over a small ridge on Friday night and saw the whole disaster spread out before him: train passengers wandering blindly, luggage tossed in all directions, screams coming from the derailed cars.

As word of the space shuttle disaster spread, residents and vacationers in this tourist-rich, high-tech region sank into despair and grief today, some hoping that the explosion was simply a bad dream.

WASHINGTON — The political ripples from the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster spread in the capital on Thursday as six West Coast senators proposed a permanent ban on drilling in the Pacific and another group tried to raise oil company liability in a spill to $10 billion from the current $75 million.