Sentence examples for natural perils from inspiring English sources

The companies' models disagreed here and there, but on one point they spoke with a single voice: four natural perils had outgrown the insurers' ability to insure them -- U.S. hurricane, California earthquake, European winter storm and Japanese earthquake.

In a recent publication, "Risky cities: Los Angeles," Swiss Re uses its risk models and hazard data to analyze the earthquake risk and other natural perils on this megacity.

The Logistics Rebel Forces Need More Supplies If the loose alliance of Afghan rebel armies opposing the Taliban is to go on the move and fight through the formidable military perils, natural obstacles and remorseless winter that face them, they will need a steady flow of supplies of all kinds.

Natural gas offers peril and promise in terms of its environmental effects.

These disastrous confrontations also left the natural world in peril.

Despite Potosí's flamboyance, it was plagued by murderous disputes between warring Spanish miners, natural disasters and the perils of living at 4,000m, where very little grows.

He is a perpetual reminder that we disregard the natural world at our peril.

The building of Poundbury, the prince's bizarre Dorset Petit Trianon, and his attack on architectural modernism in general, is motivated not simply by a knee-jerk reaction, but by an underlying philosophy of sacred geometry founded in "biomimetics"; the notion that humans divorce themselves from the structures of the natural world at their peril.

Plans for a huge commercial development that would transform a tiny town near the edge of the Grand Canyon have been thrown out by federal officials in a surprise victory for conservation and indigenous interests – but campaigners warn that the world famous natural wonder remains in peril.

While this is a common approach in macroecological studies, it may discount the details of natural history at the peril of successful conservation actions [16].

Americans face "grave danger from extreme natural events" as well as "new catastrophic perils to deal with terrorism," says RMS President and Chief Executive Hemant Shah.