Sentence examples for smaller disaster from inspiring English sources
During the Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s - a much smaller disaster - the Federal Bureau of Investigation was given 1,000 agents.
It remains vacant, a small-scale disaster zone of leaky pipes and caved-in walls and ceilings.
I intend to get just as much as I need to survive a small-scale disaster, but not enough to survive the apocalypse.
But smaller disasters will be treated in the old way.
Whether we are dealing with epic obstacles like breast cancer and addiction or smaller disasters like lost credit cards and expensive gym memberships, we face it now together.
HONOLULU COUNTY, Hawaii ― Hurricane Lane weakened to a tropical storm on Friday as it crawled slowly past the main Hawaiian islands but still left a number of different smaller disasters in its wake in different parts of the state.
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".
