Sentence examples for violent disaster from inspiring English sources

The film gently asserts the possibility that the humanities hold the key to understanding an alien culture – that speaking someone else's language, literally and metaphorically, might be what's required to avert violent disaster.

Traven is both a researcher and an experimental subject or patient in an institution where white-coated medical science has become contaminated by other things: pornography, celebrity, the imminence of violent disaster.

The significance of the man-made Sept. 30 event has, at least for the time being, been washed out to sea with the receding waters of the tsunami a mere "morning after" to a more violent disaster.

Alexis Dudden, a historian of modern Korea, told me that Moon sees regularizing relations with his neighbor as vital both to avoiding a violent disaster and for the future of the regional economy.

In case you need a quick refresher: The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago was an infamous, violent, unprecedented disaster.

So the book incorporates a terrible secret in Victoria's past, a bitter feud between Elizabeth and her sister (Grant's mother), a violent horticultural disaster, excruciating physical suffering and a lot of forced, angry rifts and walkouts.

It said global warming was "shaping a world that is more unstable, resource-constrained, violent and disaster-prone".

In "Tsunami," a woman reflects on the way violent world disasters seem to echo the violent losses in her personal life.

Resilience is particularly important amidst financial instability, rising poverty and increasingly frequent and violent natural disasters.

12 Volcanic eruptions are violent natural disasters that impose a threat to health as well as to livestock and property.

By mobilising that common sense, often in a racialised way, they exert real effects in organising violent interventions into disaster zones.