Sentence examples for example of disasters from inspiring English sources

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.

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).

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

"We have a lot of examples of disasters that have followed after the demise of an authoritarian leader," he said on CNN.

Last year, Hurricane Sandy's assault on the US East Coast and Typhoon Bopha's impact on the Philippines were mentioned as examples of disasters the world could see more of unless it reins in the greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are warming the planet.

These are illustrated with examples of disasters that have occurred.

There are plenty of examples of disasters being times of solidarity rather than selfishness.

Catastrophic floods in Pakistan, and an earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands in Haiti, were just two examples of disasters that overwhelmed already fragile nations last year.