Sentence examples for extensive disaster from inspiring English sources
Each of these volunteers, chosen from a pool of 15,000 candidates who stepped forward to serve in west Africa, has extensive disaster response experience.
While the loss of life and property may yet be considerable, many lives were certainly saved by Japan's extensive disaster preparedness and strict construction codes.
Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, all with extensive disaster response experience, arrived almost immediately, only to be placed on the sideline.
William A. Ryan, a spokesman for the United Nations Population Fund, said that 900 women were giving birth each day in the extensive disaster zone stretching across the central Philippines, of whom 130 a day were at risk of complications.
As part of the strategy of 'building back better' in its extensive disaster-recovery efforts, UNICEF has been helping local governments build water supply systems in remote villages such as Caochuan in all the three provinces that were hit by the earthquake – Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi.
As the country's largest contractor, Bechtel has extensive experience with disaster recovery.
Still, health experts were arriving in Haiti from Israel, Cuba, Portugal and other countries, many with stocks of medicine and supplies as well as extensive experience in disaster conditions.
A senior WHO employee with extensive communications and disaster experience at WHO contributed an initial list of 15 potential participants.
With the increased frequency of extreme weather events and large-scale disasters, extensive societal and economic losses incur every year due to damage of infrastructure and private properties, business disruptions, fatalities, homelessness, and severe health-related issues.
Xinhua devoted extensive coverage to the disaster, publishing regular updates on the situation, including latest death tolls, on its Chinese and English Web sites.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry called for an "extensive investigation" into the disaster on Sunday, in which nine people, five of them children, were killed, and a baby was tossed from a third floor window to save its life.
