Sentence examples for expensive disasters from inspiring English sources

Floods have become more expensive disasters with persistent development along waterfronts.

The risks of an unsuccessful suit have been highlighted by a series of expensive disasters befalling people such as Neil Hamilton, a former Conservative MP, and Gillian Taylforth, a television actress.

In contrast, the string of expensive disasters in 2011, including the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand, did not lead to a rise in market-wide premiums, despite costing the insurance industry $116 billion, much of it reinsured.

He does, however, favour breaking down rigid job grades, which currently encourage talented civil servants to continually move to new posts to secure promotion.For all these sweeping intentions, the competence of the civil service is more routinely judged on how well it avoids expensive disasters.

The larger lesson is that if you hollow out the state, not only will expensive disasters like last week's become routine, we will be unable to stimulate genuine innovation: there simply will not be the officials with the sophistication to judge what risks the state should run in partnership with business.

While the Loma Prieta and Northridge earthquakes that struck California in the late '80s and mid-'90s caused significant damage, you'll notice the list of the most expensive disasters is otherwise populated with hurricanes.

The signing proved an expensive disaster.

A failed national experiment could be an expensive disaster.

On the campaign trail, Trump called Obamacare an expensive "disaster".

The deluge in Thailand cost $40 billion, the most expensive disaster in the country's history.

October's deluge cost $40 billion, the most expensive disaster in the country's history.