Sentence examples for surviving disaster from inspiring English sources

In spite of everything, there was in the life I fled a zest and a joy and a capacity for facing and surviving disaster that are very moving and very rare.

What of the pair of us?Pretty much the tale of the family surviving disaster:"In the ancient serpent stink of our blood we got clearof the valley; the village loosed stone lions roaring at our heels".Sleep, troubled sleep, the troubled waking of the heartyours on top of mine chipped dishes stacked in the pitching sink of noontides.What then of words?

Television shows might have spin-off video games or merchandising, but this drama about surviving disaster and social collapse is now going to have its own university course.

A new series called "Surviving Disaster," which provides instruction on how to make it through the aftermath of a nuclear explosion or a hijacking, will draw women even though it is not geared toward them, she predicted.

These include Up From the Ashes (1990) by KOMO-TV, an episode of the 2005 second series of Seconds From Disaster broadcast by the National Geographic Channel, and an episode of the 2006 series Surviving Disaster, broadcast on the BBC and Discovery Channel.

Surviving disasters requires contingency plans, and so does avoiding them in first places.

But if you see the problem as one of surviving disasters, then what you need is not technological change, but the right sort of social organisation.

Benitez sounded eerily like John Franco, the veteran closer, who has become Benitez's setup man and counselor and who made a career out of surviving disasters.

Though numbers can paint a compelling portrait of the storm's impact, the stories of people's experiences with the storm often provide the most powerful insights into surviving disasters, natural and personal.

Update: Nov. 12: Surviving Disasters as a School Community Editors at Teaching Tolerance reached us just after Hurricane Sandy, and we talked about what school communities can do to recover together from disasters and tragedies of many kinds, whether hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes, terrorism, the deaths of individual students through accidents or violence or anything else.

One of their conclusions is that the seemingly illogical yearning for a Clapton relic, even a pseudorelic, stems from an instinct crucial to surviving disasters like the Black Death: the belief that certain properties are contagious, either in a good or a bad way.