Sentence examples for threatened disaster from inspiring English sources

Books were produced to save the essentials of the religion from a threatened disaster.

"Stable democracies retain their extraordinary capacity to stave off the worst that can happen without tackling the problems that threatened disaster in the first place". Despite the look-at-me title of the book, he doesn't think democracy is over.

WASHINGTON ― Every few years an actual or threatened disaster highlights the state of America's crumbling infrastructure.

Design and production workers helped rescue the 787 program which was in chaos and threatened disaster for the entire company.

Seven years of activism against the tar sands pipeline, which threatened disaster for the climate and the communities through which it would pass, culminated in November when President Obama rejected Keystone XL once and for all.

There was a conviviality in the bar, the type that is said to come always with threatened disaster.

At the same time, the global sugar price has slumped, threatening disaster for many small producers.

While the ships themselves are reasonably robust, the relatively fragile berthing structures might break up, setting the ship loose, possibly without power immediately available, threatening disaster.

Finally, the technology of nuclear power itself kept breaking down and bringing or threatening disaster, as is now occurring in Japan.

It's Feng's character's decision to adopt and rear a wolf cub that upends the natural order and threatens disaster in the village.

Plunging oil prices are threatening disaster in Libya, where civil war has left the population depending on fast-dwindling oil revenues to survive.