Sentence examples for encourage disaster from inspiring English sources

Who could argue with Lawrence E. Joseph's efforts in "The Sun Also Surprises" (Op-Ed, Aug. 16) to encourage disaster readiness in response to potential hazards from the sun's 11-year solar cycle of storms?

In general, the local authorities play an important role in local development planning, promote comprehensive school safety, encourage disaster resilient cities and villages through community-based DRR at the local level, and promote development of community-based support networks (Tozier de la Poterie and Baudoin 2015).

Disasters encourage powerful and compelling survival narratives (that can overwhelm weaker and more complex climate change narratives).

We found that disaster prevention policies, whether they are based on EM-DAT or DesInventar disaster type, encourage an increase in urbanization especially when they are only based on structural mitigation measures.

Despite American pressure to change that provision, the Japan disaster could encourage Indian legislators to keep it in place.

Hayashida was inspired by the disaster to encourage his team to communicate more, setting up the office such that staff members could easily see and discuss each other's work.

In the days since the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 tragedy, the big questions have been whether Russian President Vladimir Putin armed the separatists with the missile that left 298 innocent people dead, and whether the disaster will encourage Putin to reconsider his destabilization of Ukraine.

The current authors consider that "doing nothing" may not be the best option, because insurance of forests against disasters could encourage investment in planted forests and other forestry production and conservation activities.

And if anything, the gulf disaster encouraged Russia to push ahead with BP as its first partner.

This disaster encouraged the formation of a Second Coalition of powers alarmed by the progress of the Revolution.

When their efforts failed and voters elected a Democratic government in 1892, Republican leaders predicted economic disaster, encouraged investors to shun the stock market, prompted a run on treasury gold and precipitated an economic crash.