Sentence examples for unparalleled disaster from inspiring English sources

Yet this unparalleled disaster did not humble or discourage the emperor.

Some shared the opinion of Reuben Friedman, 59, a retired lawyer who said that officials did the best they could in an unparalleled disaster.

This means that if the rate had been continued any length of time, most of the skyscrapers of New York would have been demolished and an unparalleled disaster would have occurred.

Planners have been given, through unparalleled disaster, the rare opportunity to correct what is now regarded as a major mistake made in the 1960's: the truncation of Dey, Cortlandt, Fulton, Greenwich and Washington Streets to create the site of the twin towers and 7 World Trade Center.

The 1900 Galveston hurricane was an unparalleled disaster.

It was also the granting of one these hasty "categorical exclusions" that resulted in the unparalleled disaster in the Gulf of Mexico last summer.

They say this disaster represents an unparalleled catastrophe for the lives of people across the region, but they also see in it a continuation of an old pattern of oil and chemical corporations displacing people of color from their homes.

Although Hutton was, of course, a tactical triumph for him, with a knockout victory in the report and three good BBC scalps, it was an unparalleled strategic disaster.

"Just as the hubris of headstrong shipbuilders who insisted that the Titanic was unsinkable led to an unparalleled maritime disaster, so Cameron's overweening pride has come unnecessarily close to capsizing this project," he wrote, calling it "a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances".

Described by the army as an "unparalleled natural disaster," the deluge is expected to cost up to 3 billion pounds.

In the wake of BP's unparalleled Gulf of Mexico disaster some lawmakers recognized the urgent need to overhaul offshore drilling regulations.