Sentence examples for over a disaster from inspiring English sources

"I thought it was over, a disaster.

If this is where China is, then substantially I would say this is not a breakthrough but an attempt to gloss over a disaster.

Members of a federal commission investigating Florida's presidential election accused Secretary of State Katherine Harris today of presiding over a "disaster" and trying to shift blame.

Not for him, maybe, unless our political marketplace comes up with some way to measure the cost, to a President and his Party, of presiding over a disaster.

"The magnitude of responding to a crisis over a disaster area that is larger than the size of Great Britain has created tremendous problems that have strained state and local capabilities," said Mr. Bush, slightly exaggerating the stricken land area.

The prime minister, David Cameron, said in the Commons he was "profoundly sorry" on behalf of the government for what was immediately described by the former lord chancellor Charles Falconer as "a concerted conspiracy to withhold the truth" over a disaster that claimed the lives of 96 men, women and children, 80% of whom were under 30.

They got her on a trumped-up charge that she used lumber left over from a disaster recovery program in her home.

In early October Anonymous, a "hacktivist" collective, took down a bunch websites in Sweden as a protest against efforts to extradite Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, from Britain.It is hard to imagine people getting as worked up about a leak of personal data or a tightening of copyright laws as they would over a nuclear disaster or global warming.

Ask Tory MPs and you hear a variety of "we're stuffed", "she's over", "it's a disaster".

I had absolutely no reason to believe that these authority figures would lie and deceive over such a disaster.

What happened over there was a disaster.