Sentence examples for small disasters from inspiring English sources
In my family, the trees were even more beloved if they inspired small disasters.
Santiago's Peru is "all fucked up," yet it is still, he tells us, "my Peru," not an abstract body politic but a welter of small disasters and compromises.
Ed's small, sad act of protest against the meaninglessness of his own existence sets in motion a series of large and small disasters that have a curiously paradoxical effect.
The perfect days and there had been hundreds of them seemed to have passed into their consciousness without a memory, and they returned to this chronicle of small disasters as if it were the genesis of summer….
In fact, given the range of large and small disasters that could happen any given day, from losing your cellphone to that foiled Times Square car bomb, it can seem kind of crazy not to have a plan.
Precaution During that first air-raid alarm a number of small disasters occurred, one of them taking place in a household where the mistress recalled having been told that the way to save framed pictures and the glass that covers them is to lay them under the cushions of an upholstered chair or couch.
DesInventar aims to fill the gap in data at lower administrative levels, and to give visibility to small-scale disasters.
In the case of small-scale disasters, vulnerability is particularly important when the intensity of the hazard events is moderate or even low.
Although the CRED statistics are questionable in that they exclude small-scale disasters, which might well add up to a large proportion of the total, they do help us to understand the scale of the threats posed to lives and livelihoods, and thus the importance of the implementation of the SFDRR.
"And it could be a small disaster, nothing too serious".
