Sentence examples for emergency faced from inspiring English sources

Most landslide dams fail by overtopping or piping shortly after their formation (Costa and Schuster, 1988; Ermini and Casagli, 2003), typically in conjunction with the first serious hydraulic emergency faced by the dam. Figure 10 shows the dam longevity curve constructed using all the available data.

After nearly a decade of civil war, the DRC remains in the midst of a complex humanitarian emergency, faced with a devastated health infrastructure, high mortality rates and a disrupted civil society.

I came out shaking with fear, but also moved by theatre's capacity to confront the emergency facing our planet.

Environmentalists welcomed the decision, saying policymakers were failing to heed the "emergency" facing the city of 17 million people.

To add to their indignity, the Australian government has now rejected the findings of the independent review of its response to the "national emergency" facing Aboriginal communities.

A fitting description perhaps for the emergency facing Europe today – but those problems also fuelled a German architect's extraordinary 1920s scheme to resettle millions of Europeans in Africa.

You are correct in pointing out the need for our elected officials to focus on the emergency facing our public schools: the loss of nearly half the state's teachers over the next decade (editorial, Nov. 14).

"California on Edge of Failing to Meet Electricity Needs" (front page, Aug. 3) sets forth the primary reason for the emergency facing San Diego this summer: a shortage of generating capacity.

David Cameron last night pledged another £80m in funding for the fight against Ebola, hoping to shame other European Union nations into doing more to stem the spread of a virus which he called the biggest health emergency facing the world right now.

An influenza pandemic is thought to be the most likely and most severe biological emergency facing the United States (1 – 3 ).

The report made comparisons between Swaziland and Zambia and Malawi, in order to demonstrate the scale of the emergency facing Swaziland.