Sentence examples for office for disaster from inspiring English sources

The UN office for disaster risk reduction recently counted up the toll of small disasters.

However, Winston Chang, who works in the United Nations' office for disaster assessment and coordination, said he remained hopeful of finding survivors amid the debris from the mudslides.

"This is still a rescue mission, not a recovery mission," said Winston Chang, chief of the United Nations' office for disaster assessment and coordination.

In terms of preparing cities to be as disaster-resilient as possible, the UN's office for disaster risk reduction launched its Making Cities Resilient campaign in 2010, urging local governments to raise disaster resilience awareness among citizens, invest in risk-reduction activities, and build more safely.

Despite the devastation caused by Typhoon Koppu, however, Margareta Wahlström, the head of the UN office for disaster risk reduction, said other countries could learn from the timely response of the government and local and international NGOs, which mitigated the cyclone's impact.

The study echoes a report in May by the UN office for disaster risk reduction (UNISDR) which warns that it will become increasingly untenable for governments and businesses to sweep the risk of disaster under the carpet, citing the examples of hurricane Sandy in the US, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, and the Thai river floods.

"Bulgaria made an approach, but there was nothing available," said Hans Das, who heads the E.U. office for civil protection and disaster response.

Office parties can be a recipe for disaster.

John Osborne, in his autobiography, wrote that "Arden became an in-house joke for box office disaster," and it is estimated that between 1956 and 1961 the Royal Court made about £50,000 from Osborne's plays but lost nearly £15,000 on Arden's.

A number of UNICEF offices across the region are marking International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on 13 October to highlight the need for concerted action to reduce the loss of human lives and property in disasters.

And at the alternative Oscars - the Golden Raspberry awards - Mariah Carey took worst actress for the box office disaster Glitter.