Sentence examples for escalating disaster from inspiring English sources

The international president of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), Dr Joanne Liu, told member states that although alarm bells had been ringing for six months, the response had been too little, too late and no amount of vaccinations and new drugs would be able to prevent the escalating disaster.

That billions of its dollars are at stake if the Fukushima event causes the "nuclear renaissance" to slow down appears to be evident from the industry's attacks on its critics, even in the face of an unresolved and escalating disaster at the reactor complex at Fukushima.

The liberals who built the Great Society also derived some political capital from a darker source: the escalating disaster in Vietnam.

The Homeless Outreach and Proactive Engagement, or HOPE, teams pair police and outreach workers during city street and encampment cleanups, and respond to citizen complaints about drug use, trash and disorder in tent cities. Civil rights lawyers and skid row and Venice activists said enforcement was a failed approach to stop the escalating disaster.

An emergency of this scale may be caused by a suddenly escalating disaster or crisis, or a significant deterioration within an existing emergency.

In the face of escalating military disasters, some German soldiers deserted, but most continued to fight.

I lived in Tokyo in the 1990s, as perfectly reasonable arguments for government restraint led to acquiescence in the face of escalating economic disasters.

When it comes to climate change, mass extinction, escalating natural disasters, and rising sea levels, the stakes couldn't be higher.

Even the best-case projections from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) indicate that escalating natural disasters exacerbated by global climate changes may be enough to bankrupt many nations over the course of the next few decades.

The expected damage from the storm is likely to take days to determine, but it was poised to deliver to the center of the country an unusually treacherous mix of snow, sleet, ice and high winds, inspiring forecasters to escalate the disaster rhetoric to an audience famously inured to extreme weather.

But Howson says this is not enough: "The government has buried its head in the sand and must now take urgent action to prevent the crisis from escalating into a disaster for the education of some of our most vulnerable children".