Sentence examples for formal disaster from inspiring English sources

The Commerce Department issued a formal disaster declaration for the entire Northeastern commercial groundfish fishery, which includes cod.

BOSTON — The Commerce Department on Thursday issued a formal disaster declaration for the Northeastern commercial groundfish fishery, paving the way for financial relief for the battered industry and the communities that depend on it.

Instead, residents have been relying on community-based initiatives, which lack formal disaster-relief training and the equipment or social infrastructure to provide the necessary assistance.

Judging from the extreme difficulty of obtaining concrete, detailed information about potential chemical hazards following the Japan disaster, this appears to be an aspect of emergency preparedness that, despite well-established formal disaster-response plans, remains inadequately addressed.

Formalize Disaster Plan The city's police and fire commissioners said they had agreed to adopt formal rules for how emergency agencies should work together in responding to major disasters.

It is more prone to floods as it currently has no formal adaptation, disaster risk reduction or prevention policies, practices or initiatives in place.

That is why a formal system of earthquake disaster mitigation and management using formal methods and WSANs is proposed.

"It would be a disaster if formal work [places where groups of people go to perform tasks] vanishes.

And for American society writ large, the decision is nothing short of a disaster, a formal affirmation from the Supreme Court that huge corporations enjoy special rights denied to the people who depend on their wages to pay their bills.

More than two and a half years after the World Trade Center attacks exposed weaknesses in New York City's emergency response system, the city still lacks what many experts say is the most basic and essential tool for handling disasters: a formal agreement governing which city agency would lead the response at the scene of any catastrophic accident or terrorist strike.

The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan leader who has not set foot in China since 1959, has issued a formal request to visit the disaster zone.