Sentence examples for lesser disasters from inspiring English sources

But in my experience, the opposite is true: the reporting of cataclysms or lesser disasters is often wildly misleading.

Lesser disasters pass unnoticed in this terrible catalogue, which is relieved only by the common-sense daughter, Caroline who has made a solid and independent career for herself.

The catastrophe was also famous because, despite weeks of prior warnings and lesser disasters, the city was refused evacuation by the governor because of critical elections taking place across the island during that month.

Handling a crisis deftly and appearing to be in all the right places at the right times are characteristics that Mr. Giuliani mastered long ago in far lesser disasters, like major fires and snowstorms.

Mr. Pachinsky, a partner in an advertising company, was actually escaping from a lesser disaster.

This has led to the sad spectacle of other states trading votes on a huge disaster like Sandy to get necessary funds to deal with damage from a lesser disaster like Isaac or the drought.

Once, faced with the lesser disaster of a restless old Labour audience, Blair rescued a sinking speech by ditching his text and improvising - which is what he probably should have done when the WI began to get stroppy.

Subjects covered in books on the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year short list: the Great Panic, the Great Depression, and lesser financial disasters.

Every year, thousands of people worldwide are affected by mass trauma, including war and other forms of armed conflicts [ 1], and also to a lesser extent, natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes and Tsunamis [ 2].

Chechnya and, to a lesser extent, Iraq are disaster areas, and the suffering of innocent civilians in both places is profound.

In a statement, Lanny A. Breuer, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Criminal Division, suggested that Transocean had played a subservient and lesser role in the disaster to that of BP: "Transocean's rig crew accepted the direction of BP well site leaders to proceed in the face of clear danger signs — at a tragic cost to many of them".