Sentence examples for example of disaster from inspiring English sources

Britain's parliament gave the victims £100,000, an early example of disaster relief.The great Lisbon earthquake was the first of a series of natural disasters to strike Europe in the second half of the 18th and early 19th centuries, a period when growing scientific observation was providing new explanations of the natural world to rival those of the church.

The press coverage surrounding the evacuation was later cited as an example of "disaster pornography", in academic analyses concerned with the portrayal of child victims of violence and disaster in ways that reaffirm those victims' remoteness from and subjectivity to western (here, Northwestern European) agency.

I'll leave it to Detroit residents to say whether the visual depiction of the city amounts to yet another example of disaster porn gone awry; suffice to say that the attempts to create a sense of atmosphere via the city's crumbling infrastructure don't add up to much in the first two hours.

Box 3 Example of disaster health referral process > -wrap-foot> However, in resource-limited settings facing overwhelming needs for information and response in a disaster, such an individualized approach (i.e. patient centric) is not often practical (Guha-Sapir 1991).

A fitting example of disasters caused by over-speeding in curves is the 2013 Spanish high-speed rail disaster [1] where the train derailed due to over-speeding.

–What are some examples of disaster relief laws passed by Congress?

All told, the movie "has much more in common with 'The Day After Tomorrow' and other examples of disaster porn than 'The Ten Commandments' or 'The Passion of the Christ' or even 'Noah' from earlier this year".

Traditional examples of Disaster Risk Reduction often focus on natural disasters.

While literature provides great examples of disaster responses and preparedness efforts, little information is being documented concerning health care logistics management.

Target enclosure by autonomous robots is useful for many practical applications, for example, surveillance of disaster sites.

Examples of disasters that seem obvious with hindsight include the Challenger disaster and the recent Columbia tragedy.