Sentence examples for instance of disaster from inspiring English sources

In another instance of disaster aversion, Ken Olsen, who founded the Digital Equipment Corporation, saved the Whirlwind computer, a ground-breaking machine built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed in 1951, by keeping a truck from hauling the machine to a landfill.

Thus no edges will be induced to connect them in the co-occurrence graph, which indicates they are not highly related while "Hurricane Andrew" is an instance of "disaster".

As shown in the example document in Fig. 1, although the distance between "disaster" and "Hurricane Andrew" in the document is large, it is easy to add an edge between them if we know "Hurricane Andrew" is an instance of "disaster" according to their semantic relation.

The first documented instance of disaster-associated mucormycosis occurred after the 1985 volcanic eruption in Armero, Colombia, which caused an estimated 23,000 deaths and ≈4,500 injuries (17 ).

Two instances of disaster-associated coccidioidomycosis have been described.

man was present in case of disaster.

They clung so tightly to their homeland that they only moved in instances of natural disaster.

Our results also suggest that members of the community who may be more vulnerable to the effects of disaster (for instance, those with less education) are likely to be vulnerable in part due to increased exposure to difficult experiences.

Indeed, in what was a rare instance of 19th-century federal disaster relief, the Hayes admininstration without Congressional authorization ordered the Army to distribute tents, blankets and food to those rendered destitute by the yellow fever epidemic.

When I landed in Japan, for instance, someone immediately showed me a video on his cell phone of a 5-minute clip of disaster scenes.

For instance, a society that has a consensus of wills and practices a coordination of activities between individuals for the sake of disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief is often observed to be less vulnerable to disasters (Shi et al. 2014).