Sentence examples for previous disaster from inspiring English sources

Everyone, it seemed, feared that the hurricane might equal some previous disaster.

"A previous disaster book was hot, then a new disaster book is going to be hot.

And he tries to top his previous disaster movies by ratcheting up the scale of destruction in the film's 157 minutes.

The lawsuit says that in at least one previous disaster the agency has provided emergency housing for longer than a year.

Mr. Ellis, of the taxpayers' group, said that previous disaster bills taken up by Congress had been stuffed with more flagrant examples of pork-barrel spending.

Oxfam said the UN's financial tracking system showed that as of August 9, governments had committed less than $45m, with an additional $91m pledged – considerably less money than was collected for previous disaster relief efforts over a similar period.

Voters and the opposition soon forgot previous disasters.

The previous disasters were in 1772 and 1836.

The department yet again failed to learn from previous disasters, like the Metronet contract.

Some victims of previous disasters have said they took years to settle.

In 68 previous disasters, the report noted, the program doled out $18.1 million.