Sentence examples for preventing a catastrophe from inspiring English sources

We need to keep that issue alive, work for it, but also work towards preventing a catastrophe.

He added that while other factors were at work, "we are increasing our chances of preventing a catastrophe like that through these programs".

He added that many other factors were at work in stopping attacks, saying "at the margins we are increasing our chances of preventing a catastrophe like that through these programs".

Similarly, if taking action now to prevent a future disaster involves a difficult hurdle such as bureaucratic red tape or high financial, social, or political costs we will tend to focus on the immediate (avoiding public resistance to increased taxes) versus the future (preventing a catastrophe).

But at the margins we are increasing our chances of preventing a catastrophe like that through these programs".

"The fact that none of these asteroid impacts shown in the video was detected in advance is proof that the only thing preventing a catastrophe from a 'city-killer' sized asteroid is blind luck".

This is the only solution I see to help prevent a catastrophe by Sunday.

"I think what Romney did was he prevented a catastrophe," Hertzberg says.

The U.S. ambassador in Indonesia, Cameron Hume, is actively trying to prevent a catastrophe.

The government did not invest in the levees, the communications and the roads and other infrastructure to prevent a catastrophe.

Asked what NATO, operating only from the air, could do to prevent a catastrophe, Mr. Holbrooke went silent and shrugged.