Sentence examples for state disaster from inspiring English sources

The governor declared a state disaster for the areas hit by the flooding.

Other agencies, like state disaster management and local governments, also play a key role.

Every centimetre counts," said the Queensland state disaster co-ordinator, Ian Stewart.

In Assam, floods have affected nearly 1.3 million people, spread across 1,972 villages, said a state disaster official.

"We call this the fire season in Bihar," Vyas, a state disaster management official who goes by one name, said.

Mr. Pataki declared the region a state disaster area last week, clearing the way for assistance from the National Guard.

The result is that state disaster-management atrophies and disaster funding ends up subsidising disaster-prone places like Florida at the expense of safer states like Ohio.As a consequence of these skewed incentives, people routinely rebuild in areas that have already been devastated.

Already, Mr. Bush has declared 41 states disaster areas as a result of the storm.

In a strongly worded statement leading up to the development of the Pre-Zero Draft, the Caucus stated "persons with disabilities have remained largely invisible within member states' disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies and practices under the HFA" (UNISDR 2014a).

Paragraph 4 states "Disasters, many of which are exacerbated by climate change and increasing in frequency and intensity, significantly impede progress towards sustainable development" (UNISDR 2015, p. 4).

When it comes to multi-state disasters, it's simply not possible to manage relief on an ad hoc, local basis.