"It shows that the states need to have more of a role, perhaps a pre-eminent role, in disaster assistance," Mr. Richardson said.
Social machines and networks offer a greater benefit in serving public by far reaching global services such as averting disaster, sensing eminent dangers, and stopping thugs and Mafia to gain control of the social and national security of nations.
"Shifting more money to preventing and reducing the risk of disaster makes eminent sense but it does not mean taking it away from urgent humanitarian response.
Obviously no one told eminent Scottish poet William McGonagall, author of the Tay Bridge Disaster and those immortal lines: "your central girders would not have given way, At least many sensible men do say, Had they been supported on each side with buttresses, At least many sensible men confesses".
After the 2005 disaster, there were calls for the county to buy up all the homes through eminent domain and never allow anyone to live there again.
Now, in the tradition of "Dispatches," with the publication of Dexter Filkins's stunning book, "The Forever War," it seems the journals of the brave correspondents assigned to the Middle East will take their place as the pre-eminent record of America's late-imperial adventures, the heart of these heartless exercises in disaster, maybe some consolation to those maimed and bereaved in them.
One of Britain's most eminent legal experts has condemned Theresa May as ignorant of European law, as he warned the government risked "careering towards disaster" over Brexit.
Principle g, for example, corresponds to the well-known precautionary principle, which, taken in isolation, makes eminent sense: In the face of scientific uncertainty, preemptive risk management action could lead to the avoidance of a major risk disaster.
Mass-media reportage is the pre-eminent source of information about disasters in LMICs for audiences in high-income nations, and a valuable trigger for NGO fundraising.
