Sentence examples for modern disaster from inspiring English sources

After all, if they can't help during its worst modern disaster, what use are they?

In modern disaster movies, New York is routinely destroyed, in vivid detail.

Brown and skeletal, the trees look like victims of blight, radiation or some other modern disaster.

Why this national reluctance to face the country's bloodiest modern disaster in all its dimensions?

Modern disaster prediction, detection and early warning systems based on ICT are essential for saving lives.

The young people Mr. Breivik shot at a summer camp on the island of Utoya were all Norwegians, but some were the children of immigrants, who have now been memorialized in the country's greatest modern disaster.

And our modern disasters, too, of course".

Old streets have been widened and new streets cut through, but after both of its great modern disasters, in 1923 and 1945, the city pulled itself together in much the same shape that it had had before.

The stories in question were an anthology of ancient and modern disasters, ranging from the destruction of Pompeii to the Lisbon earthquake and ending with the collapse of a railway bridge across the Firth of Tay and the horrific Mississippi flood of 1927.

It took the Mediterranean's worst modern marine disaster, and some 850 deaths, to finally discredit the "pull factor" theory.

Demand for tanker cars has made rail companies reluctant to replace their older stock, though their walls puncture more easily than those of modern cars.The disaster will lead to debate about the building of new pipelines.