Sentence examples for unforeseeable disaster from inspiring English sources

Barring an unforeseeable disaster, Jokowi seems unbeatable.

"It was an unforeseeable disaster," Tepco's then president Masataka Shimizu famously and improbably said later.

The most popular reason offered for the dearth of financial crisis prosecutions is the 100-year flood excuse: The banking system was hit by a systemic and unforeseeable disaster, which means that, as unpleasant as it may be to laymen, it's unlikely that anyone committed a crime.

She'd been sleeping at her family home to receive care while she ailed, but unforeseeable disaster came in the middle of the night -- and it was her cat Ringo who saved the day, she recounted in a HuffPost Live conversation on Wednesday. .

And far from being unforeseeable, the disaster had been repeatedly forewarned by industry critics.

TOKYO — A year after a huge earthquake and tsunami caused nearly catastrophic meltdowns at a nuclear plant, Japan is still grappling with a crucial question: was the accident simply the result of an unforeseeable natural disaster or something that could have been prevented?

What we've done is to ask 10 very smart, very successful investment professionals to pick one stock each -- a stock that barring an act of God or some unforeseeable geopolitical disaster they would feel comfortable buying now and holding until Jan . 1 , 2010

It's not that all natural disasters are unforeseeable — scientists have got better at forecasting hurricanes, and geologists can speculate about the likelihood of earthquakes over a long stretch of time — but there is nothing actuarial in these calculations.

As cruelly inevitable as the earthquake was unforeseeable, winter may be an even bigger disaster.

But short of unforeseeable - even now with a new, dangerous war looming - apocalyptic disaster, there is little or no chance of racist nationalism moving back from the lunatic fringe to the centre stage of politics in Europe.

Instead, the firm says it never could have seen the disaster coming: "The decline in the YieldPlus fund was the result of an unprecedented and unforeseeable credit crisis and market collapse.