Sentence examples for expected disaster from inspiring English sources
But Reagan did at least manage to keep control of the message and head off the expected disaster at the polls.Mr Obama, by contrast, is struggling.
Gasps were heard as the onlookers expected disaster, but the platform barely fell an inch, saved by Otis's patented safety catch.
The party's high command would prefer if the embattled Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, leads Fianna Fail into the expected disaster rather than a taint a new, fresh leader with the mark of defeat.
The Liberal Democrat leader was on the brink of an expected disaster in local and European elections the following month – the voters' roar of disapproval at his decision to go into coalition with the Conservatives.
Even Clay's financial backers, the mandarin businessmen of the Louisville Sponsoring Group, expected disaster, perhaps physical harm; the group's lawyer, Gordon Davidson, negotiated hard with Liston's team, assuming that this could be the young man's last night in the ring.
While travelling or taking money out of a machine, I always expected disaster.
Belatedly, it did declare a state of emergency, to avoid bureaucratic rules delaying reponse to the expected disasters; and, if again belatedly, it appointed a respected technician to co-ordinate preparations.In this section The free-trade winds die away Watch it, that's us you're trampling on El Niño goes into politics Vote?
"If the movement succeeds in making a separate state, I expect disaster because of our bloody past," Ms. Hariri said.
People often expect disasters to be populated by distinct groups of victims and rescuers, but in reality they're often the same people.
Similarly, for disaster risk governance systems, we can expect disasters to alter components of the system, at least temporarily – whether perturbations are low-intensity but frequent or singular, high-intensity events.
"Things could have been a lot worse" may not be the most stirring of slogans, but when everyone expected utter disaster, it amounts to a policy triumph.
