Sentence examples for present disaster from inspiring English sources

Some might object to recalling calamities of the past while China is struggling to cope with a present disaster.

The main culprit for the present disaster is the Forest Service's policy of snuffing out fires on public lands as quickly as possible.

There is also a solid argument for clawing back the bonuses they made during the subprime-mortgage-backed boom times that set the stage for the present disaster.

Three bounces brought us to the present disaster.

At present, disaster response, recovery, and reconstruction expenditures are approved on an ad hoc basis and no complete inventory exists on DRM expenditures across different ministries.

They have clearly, in fact, played a major role in the creation of the present disaster, and yet there is no place at all in our political system for genuinely antiwar figures (as there was in the Vietnam era, when a massive antiwar movement created space for such politics).

I've little doubt that if our planners had not indulged the fiction that the war on Iraq would be a liberation rather than a conquest, our postwar experience there would be considerably more favorable than the present disaster-in-waiting.

In particular, it analyzes the function of resilience stories as a way to cope with present disasters and to prepare for future ones.

24 teams from the Ithaca, NY area presented "Disaster Blaster -themed Lego models of their ideas to improve natural disaster preparation, safety and recovery.

The project culminates with students presenting disaster preparedness plans for their regions and answering the question, "How ready are we?" You can also use ePals to start your own collaborative project.

The agonies are presented, disaster-movie style, as catastrophes so awful that readers who don't want to think about them can shrug them off.