Sentence examples for visible disaster from inspiring English sources
The most visible disaster remains Iraq: the euphoria of the January election has worn off, six out of ten Americans want to bring their troops home and he has failed to get much help from the Europeans.
"Today, you have neither the romanticism of the peace process before Oslo fell apart nor a visible disaster knocking at the gates of Israel's consciousness," noted the Haaretz columnist Ari Shavit.
If the sad story of College La Promesse is to have a silver lining, however, we can hope that these tragic scenes bring more attention to the less visible disaster of Haiti's education system, which suffers from the same endemic problems that brought down College La Promesse: short-term thinking and a lack of expertise and oversight.
If they had performed even rudimentary checks before the loans were made, sold, rated, insured or securitized, it's very likely that big problems would have been visible before disaster hit.
The offering itself was as visible a disaster as a lead underwriting bank (in this case, Morgan Stanley) has turned in for some time: Facebook shares have fallen by more than ten per cent; there were trading screwups by Nasdaq; and lawsuits and regulatory investigations into whether Morgan and Facebook properly shared information with investors have already started.
To take a less visible example, the disaster shut down a shelter for battered women.
This, too, has always been a large part of India's story, visible at every disaster, perceptible on every street corner in good times and bad.
In the gray dawn and with the disaster site visible behind his left shoulder, Governor Donald L. Carcieri announced in a gas-station parking lot that 9 of the 96 victims had been positively identified.
Dacy and Kunreuther (1969) proposed a theoretical framework suggesting that disasters have visible negative impacts on economic growth.
Children's education is often a less visible casualty of natural disasters; ensuring continuity of education after emergencies is a key priority for UNICEF.
The Aliso Canyon leak is much less visible than BP's oil disaster, but Mark Brownstein, who heads the climate and energy program at EDF, said it is a serious threat.
