Sentence examples for double emergency from inspiring English sources
Rescue services were facing a double emergency in the Adriatic after a ferry plying between Greece and Italy caught fire with at least 466 people on board and two merchant vessels collided off the north-eastern Italian port of Ravenna.
Many European and American companies in Tokyo dealt last week with a double emergency: They tried to cobble together supply chains even as they evacuated native-born workers to southern Japan, and repatriated foreign workers to their homelands.
The situation has worsened since January 2012 with over 60,000 refugees fleeing conflict in Mali and crossing into areas of south-eastern Mauritania causing an unprecedented double emergency.
Southern Mauritania, for example, is facing a double emergency, with an influx of refugees from the recent coup in Mali compounding the impact of the food crisis.
Supertankers have been made safer with double hulls, emergency teams given better equipment.
They are outfitted with solar-powered charging stations for electric bicycles and smart phones in case of electrical failure, public benches that transform into cooking stoves, and manholes that double as emergency toilets.
The police have warned that the death toll from the Monday flash flooding could more than double as emergency crews reached isolated areas and began sifting through the wreckage.
On Wednesday, German lawmakers approved a proposal to more than double an emergency bailout fund, after Chancellor Angela Merkel asked lawmakers to overcome their aversion to risk and put Germany behind efforts to combat the crisis.
The drought has sent rates of global acute malnutrition soaring: in Turkana North sub-county, the rate is 30.7percentt, more than double the emergency threshold.
The government more than doubled the emergency radiation exposure limit soon after the accident, but lowered it to the previous level in December.
But the effect has been patchy: some hospitals have doubled their emergency admissions and others have cut them by a third.
