Sentence examples for spared the disaster from inspiring English sources
Other members of the American group were apparently spared the disaster when they chose to go shopping on Saturday rather than ski, a member of the group said.
He found that a 1% rise in foreign aid lifted growth in income per person by about 0.1 percentage points.Osborne Jackson of Northeastern University in Massachusetts looked at instances of donors boosting aid across the board when one of the countries they are assisting suffers a natural disaster (thus, the windfall in countries spared the disaster is not linked to economic growth).
America will be spared the demographic disasters awaiting Europe and China, thanks to its high birth rate and genius for absorbing newcomers.A genius for self-correctionDe Tocqueville, in his optimistic phase, said that "the greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults".
A ramp would lead visitors along the rugged slurry wall that held back pressure from the Hudson River and spared the city greater disaster.
Crouched there, hands clasped behind our necks, noses to the linoleum, we were expected to accept on faith that in this prescribed posture, as good little citizens of the goodest country on earth, we would be spared the effects of any disaster, natural or nuclear.
While Myanmar was largely spared the cataclysmic effects of the recent tsunami disaster, scattered villages along the coast of Myanmar's Ayeyarwaddy Delta were pounded by the ocean torrents and families' homes were swept into the sea.
Lacking sacred texts or oral histories, later generations of penguins were at least spared the harrowing ancestral memory of the earlier disasters.
(They spared the Great Mosque).
Others regard the rescue as a disaster because it sent the signal to investors that they would be spared the consequences of their mistakes, and the mess in East Asia followed.
The real surprise is that the author spares her from the disaster she seems fated for.
The next day, as the song says, on her dressing room they hung a star, and Rudolf Bing, in his first season leading the Met, was not only spared a disaster but also credited with a brilliant discovery.
