Sentence examples for harsh hurricanes from inspiring English sources

By R. P. Lister The New Yorker, April 11 , 1953P. 25 The world's harsh hurricanes obtund my edge.

They warn that the failure to import more L.N.G. is leaving natural gas reserves precariously low should the country be hit by a harsh hurricane season or cold winter.

Hutslar said the reef is designed to last for ever and engineered to withstand the harshest hurricane that has hit Florida in the past 100 years.

A vast majority of this population was exposed to the harsh effects of Hurricane Katrina.

The fort is the largest masonry building in the western hemisphere and the cost of building and maintaining it in the face of hurricanes and harsh salty conditions could not be justified for long.

But many local building codes have been strengthened over the years, often after a harsh lashing from a hurricane, to ensure that storm damage is as minimal as possible.

A19 Former President Bill Clinton, asked by President Bush to help raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, offered harsh public criticism of the Bush administration's disaster-relief effort, saying, "You can't have an emergency plan that works if it only affects middle-class people up".

He is harsh about the administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, saying it "spent most of the first week in a state of denial" and "allowed our institutional response to go on autopilot".

6. Emergencies – are common and harsh, with natural disasters such as flooding and hurricanes occurring yearly.

WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain's recent harsh critique of the Republican-led response to Hurricane Katrina no doubt reminded some of his newfound allies in Congress that his independent image was often honed at his party's expense.

But Hushpuppy's life, both harsh and idyllic, is under threat — from an epochal hurricane, government intervention and the illness of her father (Dwight Henry).