Sentence examples for top disaster from inspiring English sources

President Bush's top disaster managers -- the Homeland Security secretary, Michael Chertoff, as well as the notorious "Brownie" -- professed ignorance of New Orleans's humanitarian crisis a full day after the nation had started watching it live in real time on television.

Ingushetia's top disaster coordinator, Valery Kuksa, told reporters earlier in August that about 50,000 refugees were living in tent camps and in abandoned train cars, but that this winter there would be spaces in warm tents for only about 25,000 refugees.

That has now been shattered by the worst catastrophe in their history, eclipsing many times over the previous top disaster, which occurred nearly a century ago: the wreck of the General Slocum, an excursion boat that caught fire and then could not navigate the treacherous waters of Hell Gate.

The situation in Uttarakhand was "really very bad", top disaster management official Piyush Rautela was quoted as telling news agency AFP.

Talk about why: Talk about the top disaster risks in your area, and explain that it's important to have a plan to reunite quickly during emergencies.

Top down disaster preparedness concepts have dominated the textbooks and articles on disasters, mass casualty, and terrorism for more than 45 years.

So the concern was that if G.M. and its finance arm failed — with nearly $300 billion of debt between them and huge volumes of swaps contracts on top — a disaster would ensue.

Many people thought the Labour party would struggle to top the disaster of losing the general election, but it has silenced the doubters by somehow contriving to lose its own internal leadership election.

Given ever-increasing herds of neophyte climbers on the world's highest peak, and the fraying, old fixed climbing ropes near the top, this disaster is overdue.

It's only a matter of time before Bali's Mount Agung finally blows its top, Indonesian disaster officials warned on Monday as they raised the threat level to the highest level once again after two months of tremors shoot the popular holiday destination.

Iran ranks among the top 10 disaster-prone countries in the world, with an average of 4.3 natural disasters per year.