Sentence examples for event of bad from inspiring English sources

The bill now under consideration would replace direct subsidies with various insurance programs that would aid farmers in the event of bad weather or natural disasters.

Competitors are afforded a chance to make birdies, while aware of the perils they will inevitably encounter in the event of bad shots.

Before the nineteen-eighties, developing countries had so-called "agricultural marketing boards," which would buy commodities from farmers at fixed prices (prices high enough to keep farmers farming), and then store them in strategic reserves that could be used in the event of bad harvests or soaring import prices.

It takes Ms. Handler about 50 minutes to assemble the write-up, which is a few straightforward paragraphs explaining the details with the occasional gag as sweetener (The stables are closed "on Wednesdays, in the event of bad weather and on Horse Christmas").

Jiang Xiaoyu, executive vice president of the organizing committee, said at a news conference on Wednesday that International Olympic Committee rules allowed for a change or cancellation in the torch route in certain cities in the event of bad weather or other unfavorable conditions.

Moreover, remittances are countercyclical, increasing in the event of bad economic conditions in home countries, for example following natural disasters and financial crises (Chami, Barajas, Cosimano, Fullenkamp, Gapen, & Montial, 2008; Fajnzylber & López, 2007; World Bank, 2006a, 2006b).

PETA concluded that more than 60 percent of pigeons who race — in events that can be as long as 600 miles — become lost or die during an event because of bad weather, electrical lines, predators or exhaustion.

Armstrong's hopes for an overall victory vanished about eight days into this three-week event because of bad luck and crashes.

The company, Allstate Floridian Insurance, "faces the very real risk of being wiped out in the event of a bad hurricane season," said Joseph Richardson Jr., chairman and chief executive.

What remains uncertain is whether the government will disburse its roughly 9.6 million tons from state grain reserves this year, to largely cover the shortfall and dampen domestic prices, or hold onto some in the event of another bad harvest next year.

As officials from the EU, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) prepared to pore over Athens's latest proposals, the country's international economic affairs minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, raised the stakes, saying while Greece wanted an agreement it was prepared to go its own way "in the event of a bad scenario".