Sentence examples for genuine disaster from inspiring English sources

Not as photogenic as the poor seabirds, perhaps, but a closer brush with genuine disaster.

For one thing, the World Trade Center tragedy taught New Yorkers to recognize the difference between a genuine disaster and a temporary inconvenience.

While people always talk about donor fatigue, experience would show when there is a genuine disaster people want to reach out and help".

In the aftermath of the global recession, with rich countries growing slowly, poor countries struggling with high food prices, and Japan coping with a genuine disaster, it is easy to focus on the world's economic problems.

And ironically, Romney's fumbling has actually prevented him from taking full advantage of the genuine disaster that has been this Administration's handling of Benghazi, both before and after the attack.

In any case, this is a genuine disaster on top of a genuine disaster (tsunami) on top of a genuine disaster (earthquake) and the whole thing is most sad for Japan.

OK: let's just hope that we collectively realize this before we're forced to do so by a series of genuine disasters.

As Steve Fraser, TomDispatch's historian-in-residence (who tells tales of American history you never learned in school), reminds us, there's a backstory to the way genuine disasters are never disasters for everyone and it couldn't be more relevant to our increasing catastrophe of a world.

Given the Islamic State, that creature of the American occupation, can anyone seriously believe that the invasion that blew a hole in the heart of the Middle East doesn't qualify as one of the genuine disasters of our time, if not of any time?

"Unless there is sweeping change then I predict a genuine financial disaster," Izco said in e-mailed responses.

However, European solidarity is indeed called for, of course, where disasters genuinely occur as a result of force majeure, when genuine natural disasters happen.