Sentence examples for finance disaster from inspiring English sources

Democrats objected to a provision that would finance disaster aid by taking money from a loan program that encourages production of energy-efficient cars.

The Ponzi mortgage finance disaster was fully in motion.

[BBC] The Tokyo Electric Power Company will in effect be nationalized for at least 10 years under a government body's plan for financing disaster compensation, the Kyodo news agency reports.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has finally persuaded Mississippi to do right by Hurricane Katrina survivors who were unfairly shut out of a federally financed disaster aid program designed by the state.

As an alternative strategy, international aid agencies have considered using weather index insurance instruments to pre-finance disaster relief services (Hess and Syroka 2005; World Bank 2005; Chantarat et al. 2007; Linnerooth-Bayer et al. 2005; Hazell and Hess 2010).

The African Risk Capacity (ARC), a specialized agency of the African Union, aims to develop a pan-African risk pooling and transfer instrument using weather index insurance to pre-finance disaster risks (e.g. drought, flooding) for affected member states (ARC 2014a).

Kellet and Caravani's (2013) study Financing Disaster Risk Reduction: A 20 Year Story of International Aid, illustrates the insignificance of DRR financing in African countries with a high mortality risk index.

At least this is an improvement on the thinking behind such financing disasters as the Channel Tunnel and the public private partnership for London's underground, where the whole investment was supposed to come from the private sector.

To a question about financing for disaster relief, he said, "this is a question of prioritization.

What I was hoping to see in this whole worthy effort is someone saying that they have to get the existing planning, financing and disaster prevention section of the state government finally working".

In the aftermath of the dot-com bubble, this is clearly a period of disillusionment with California -- its economy stalled, its public finances a disaster, its leadership, political and corporate, incapable of providing any initiative for a national turnaround.