Sentence examples for the disaster posed from inspiring English sources

The Environmental Protection Agency said the disaster posed "imminent and substantial endangerment to the public health".

When Hurricane Charley hit the Florida Coast, the disaster posed the biggest challenge for the Federal Emergency Management Agency since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the first test of the agency's ability since it was absorbed by the Department of Homeland Security.

The disaster poses a challenge to a government already struggling to address the needs of the third of the population that lives in poverty.

Making matters worse, politics has so far prevented the delivery of more than piecemeal assistance from the Indian-administered part of Kashmir.After October's quake, aid workers were quick to recognise that despite killing fewer people (some 80,000) than the tsunami, this disaster posed an even greater challenge to the world's ability to rescue those in need.

This new emphasis was spurred in part by the devastation and loss of life caused by the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in December 2004 as well as the potential disaster posed by avian and pandemic influenza.

The potential negative effects of a shutdown were real but overblown, especially when weighed against the potential disaster posed by Obamacare's implementation.

Every disaster poses similar challenges: knowing when to speak to the press and what to say; how to develop "no regrets" actions; how to communicate with decision-makers and the public; how to keep proprietary industry information confidential; how to get rapid, actionable peer review of relevant analyses and proposed actions.

This unprecedented disaster poses many difficult environmental health challenges.

A dramatic reminder of the threat that natural disasters posed to museums came in August when punishing Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast.

For two weeks after the disaster he posed as a survivor to obtain an estimated £12,500 in money and other donations from charities and Kensington and Chelsea Council.

Frequent natural hazard-induced disasters posed a prominent threat to agriculture, the economic pillar at the time, and the safety of the Chinese people, forcing the government to put the focus of disaster policy and management on agricultural production.