Sentence examples for imposing disaster from inspiring English sources

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As John Berger writes, it provides "a striking parallel between CIA prisoner interrogation technique and the blackmailing technique of the World Bank and IMF for imposing disaster capitalism across the world; both want to induce by shocks a loss of identity".

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Obviously, common hygiene standards could not be preserved during initial care in local settings due to the magnitude of the disaster, imposing limitations on the type and quality of services that could be provided.

Once again, it is the marginalized and the vulnerable who bear the brunt of these effects, shouldering a disproportionate share of the physical and financial burden imposed by disasters.

As the economist Roger Bootle puts it in his new book, The Trouble with Europe: "The euro has been an economic disaster, imposed on Europe for political reasons.

With a backup generator and a supplemental condenser water system, Westchester One appeals to tenants who are thinking in terms of running their businesses despite limitations that might be imposed by a disaster, he said.

The disaster imposes itself upon the physical and psychological identity of a community until a reversal occurs in the traditional process of geographic nomenclature and the event appropriates the name rather than the other way round – place and disaster become synonymous.

That has firmed up a growing belief in Western circles that the prince who fueled a war in Yemen to the point of humanitarian disaster, imposed an intemperate blockade against Qatar, arrested a clutch of Saudi elites for money and took two weeks to come up with a passable explanation for Mr. Khashoggi's fate is not ready for the throne.

The criticism came a day after a federal judge in New Orleans began to mull lifting the moratorium, which the Obama administration imposed after the disaster began, and the administrator of a $20 billion fund to compensate oil spill victims pledged to speed payment of claims.

She accuses the agency of having a "tombstone mentality," imposing regulations only after a disaster and being reluctant to make rules that are costly to the airlines.

In addition, House leaders have proposed paying for $8.1 billion in federal disaster aid by imposing a 1.83% across-the-board cut to non-defense spending, which would further reduce science budgets.

A separate Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2012 was also included in the package, as well as a concurrent resolution which offset the increased disaster funding by imposing a 1.83% across-the-board spending cut to all discretionary programs except Defense and Veterans Affairs.

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