Sentence examples for terrorist disaster from inspiring English sources

In the finale of Season 2, the characters had survived "the worst terrorist disaster since 9/11": a car bombing at C.I.A. headquarters that killed more than two hundred people.

That's the truth about holiday air travel: the queues are extra long because security management is too busy passing down memos, warning security agents that they are the the only thing standing between civil unrest and/or terrorist disaster.

"Shock" was a word heard repeatedly today, as Russians tried to cope with terrorist disaster that for many here evoked the Sept. 11 tragedy in its randomness and unpredictability, and to come to terms with a rescue operation that killed many of those it was designed to save.

It's not far-fetched: just last week, a leaked email from the General Counsel of the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence revealed that America's spooks had decided to withdraw their calls for a ban on cryptography, but planned to reintroduce them after the next terrorist disaster had put Americans in a receptive frame of mind.

One spectacular such example: the United States Department of Homeland Security was created in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist strikes to improve coordination among different intelligence, defence and public safety units designed to prevent or minimise harm caused by a natural or terrorist disaster.

The entire premise of the show is that a terrorist disaster is just about to happen, usually several disasters in the same day.

U.S. Vulnerability to Natural, Industrial and Terrorist Disasters," will be published this summer.

As is usually the case in primaries, turnout was low in all three races, and the balloting was quickly eclipsed by news of the terrorist disasters.

Instead, the Pentagon's new strategy calls on the military to prepare for a much broader — and more complicated — set of national security requirements, that may include traditional combat against a state adversary, operations against foreign terrorists, counter-insurgency efforts, missions to mitigate natural or terrorist disasters at home and operations in cyberspace.

The study, conducted by the American College of Emergency Physicians, found the emergency care system is overcrowded, provides limited access to care and is hampered by soaring liability costs and a poor capacity to deal with public health or terrorist disasters.

Risks and costs are growing as businesses concentrate their activities or hold over swaths of the economy, says Charles Perrow, a Yale University expert on technological risk and author of The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters (Princeton, 2007).