Sentence examples for ordinary disasters from inspiring English sources

In "Experience," however, Mr. Amis speaks "for once, without artifice" of the "ordinary miracles and ordinary disasters" of real life -- of what it means to be a son, and what it means to be a father with children of his own.

"This is not your ordinary disaster," said Joe Pelle, the sheriff of Boulder County, where two of the deaths were reported, when he was asked about rescue efforts.

But the still-evolving story of the towns like Namie is a painful reminder that the three-pronged onslaught of earth, sea and radiation that hammered the country a year ago was no ordinary disaster.

Typhoons rarely hit the central and southern Philippines, and people there tend not to take storm warnings as seriously as do the storm-hardened peoples of northern Luzon island.So in the centre of the country ordinary disaster risk-reduction and management measures have proven themselves unequal to challenges posed on an extraordinary scale.

"This is not an ordinary day, it is not your ordinary disaster," Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said on Thursday.

As I'm sure you have all read, the first quarter 2010 ratings are a major disaster for CNN, and an ordinary disaster for MSNBC and Headline News.

As so often happens in disasters, ordinary people acted heroically when they saw a way to help.

Obama's budget shows that he knows what it takes to turn the economy around, but his financial policy indicates that he lacks the political will to shake off the banking lobby and do what is necessary to save ordinary Americans from disaster.

The Coalition has been an unmitigated disaster for ordinary folk.

It scraped a screen average of just over £1,000; again, not a disaster, just ordinary.

In the fall of 1950 he went back to drinking and turned ordinary again, a workaday disaster.