Sentence examples for prevent devastation from inspiring English sources

Groundwater is a trust fund to prevent devastation in future droughts; this year, those accounts have been all but drained.

"First, we get $176m to protect the shoreline and prevent devastation, God forbid another Sandy rolls in," said Senator Chuck Schumer, who represents Manhattan.

While forecasting time or place alone cannot help prevent devastation caused by earthquakes, it is helpful if both dimensions are looked at together; it is useful to consider the dimension of magnitude as the third dimension along them.

Although it is not abundantly clear how well modern medicine will be able to prevent devastation during such a large-scale infectious disease disaster, it is widely recognized that advance planning holds promise to temper the extent of devastation.

And we can have hope that if we pay attention to these inequities now, we can help prevent such devastation when the next disaster hits.

It shored up the sea wall, prevent further devastation and may have helped save houses that were teetering on the edge.

The years after the Great Depression sparked a debate in the US about how to prevent such devastation hitting the economy again, after nearly 5,000 banks collapsed.

In a move that apparently sacrificed some areas in order to prevent greater devastation elsewhere, officials decided at the weekend to raise the river Foss flood barrier in order to prevent it from becoming stuck.

The universal international organization - the United Nations - was then established to prevent such devastation from ever happening again.

In Hungary, the emergency services and volunteers are working to prevent the devastation seen last week further upstream in Germany.

Climate scientist James Hansen, formerly of NASA, now a climate activist, says our current thinking that holding the temperature to a rise of 2 degrees Celcius will prevent widespread devastation is not correct, that we must hold it to somewhere between 1-1.5 degrees in order to prevent sea levels from rising to the point that coastal cities would be inundated.