Sentence examples for quake disaster from inspiring English sources

Asked whether they believed their case had become a distraction to the quake disaster, several of the prisoners became upset.

"They kept saying they would bring courage to the victims of the quake disaster," NHK, Japan's national public broadcasting network, said early Monday in celebrating the world championship.

National response In the capital, Jakarta, UNICEF met with senior government officials to discuss the national response to this latest quake disaster.

One year after the quake disaster in Japan, children's photographs reveal recovery NEW YORK, USA, 14 March 2012 – It has been one year since Japan's '3/11' tragedy, the 11 March earthquake that set off a cascade of disasters on a scale scarcely imaginable.

The Friday Times, a weekly newspaper, noted that in Algeria, Egypt and Turkey insensitive handling of quake disasters led to a groundswell of support for Islamic parties.Presumably aware of this danger, General Musharraf has praised the job being done by Jamaat-ud-Dawa and the Al-Rasheed Trust, two Islamist groups in the forefront of the aid effort.

The president waited 36 hours to declare areas hardest hit by the quake "catastrophe areas," a move that allows the military to take over the disaster zones and institute nighttime curfews of darkened streets.

Tokyo intends to bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics as a "big catalyst" for Japan's recovery from last month's quake-tsunami disaster, the city's governor said.

"The economy, diplomacy, education and rebuilding in the northeast," which was hit by the 2011 tsunami, quake and nuclear disaster, "are in a critical situation.

Before meeting Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, President Jiang Zemin of China told reporters he did not consider the quake a major disaster.

The prime minister declared the quake a national disaster, as analysts estimated that insurance losses could be as high as $12bn£5.5bnbn).

But if it were to prove itself in a quake or other disaster, they might find themselves with a government contract right quick.