Sentence examples for until a disaster from inspiring English sources

"We assume our practices are safe, until a disaster strikes.

Your piece ends on a rather pessimistic note, suggesting that there is rarely a clear picture until one is formed by a journalist or a committee — in other words, until a disaster leads us to demand a narrative explanation.

Nonetheless, communities and governments have taken little notice of the protective services that mangroves provide until a disaster of epic proportions strikes – such as the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed some 180,000 people in western Indonesia's Aceh province.

It's not enough anymore to wait until a disaster occurs then play the memorial concert or erect another scarring monument to our collective loss.

He argued that advance preparation would be more effective than waiting until after a disaster to act.

Until and unless a disaster like ephedra comes to federal attention, the industry is essentially self-regulated.

You hear a lot of people saying we're not going to do anything until there's a disaster, at which point obviously the science tells us that it's too late.

Yvo de Boer: Well, I certainly hope we're not going to wait until there is a disaster because, as you rightly say, then it will be too late.

But then came the setback of the Valentine's Day storm, which washed away another hunk of sea wall, leading to the prospect of the line remaining closed until mid-April, a disaster for businesses in Cornwall and west Devon, which are losing millions of pounds a day because they are cut off.

The pardon power is the drunk uncle of presidential politics, awkwardly ignored until there is a disaster.

Instead they undermined their bullpen until it turned into a disaster.