Sentence examples for exceptional event that from inspiring English sources

But gas field officials defended their conduct, arguing that the well explosion was an exceptional event that could not have been readily prevented.

The utility's full liability for the nuclear accident has not been established and will depend heavily on whether the government characterizes the earthquake and tsunami on March 11 as an exceptional event that could not have been readily anticipated.

While school trips to farms enable children to learn specific information about agriculture, the environment, and nutrition (Canavari et al. 2011), youngsters may experience them as an unusual and exceptional event that has no connection with their daily life and world (Montari, 2001).

It did not include an exceptional event that might suddenly and unexpectedly have brought the issue of the absence of a newborn hearing screening programme in the FWB to the attention of policy makers.

Clearly, the South African AIDS epidemic is an exceptional event that will define much of the country's image and demand a great deal of its policy and fiscal attention for many years to come.

– Adaptation can decrease the probability of a disaster occurring, but all the cities will become more vulnerable to a failure in defenses, or to an exceptional event that exceeds the defense design.

To start with, there will always be exceptional events that pull in the mega-audiences: the Olympics, the Oscars, the soccer World Cup.

Many people have long assumed that sharp market downturns were exceptional events that suspended the statistical relationships of relatively normal times.

Dr Stephane Hallegatte, author of the Nature Climate Change study, said: "There is a limit to what can be achieved with hard protection: populations and assets will remain vulnerable to defence failures or to exceptional events that exceed the protection design".

Disasters are exceptional events that are either man made, such as terrorist attacks, or natural, such as earthquakes, wildfires and floods.

The majority of organisms living at the time are probably not represented because lagerstätten are restricted to a narrow range of environments, e.g. where soft-bodied organisms can be preserved very quickly by events such as mudslides; and the exceptional events that cause quick burial make it difficult to study the normal environments of the animals.