Sentence examples for world of disaster from inspiring English sources

As with so much else in the world of disaster relief, methods count as much as magnitudes.

It is akin to the complex, painstaking drawings of Paul Noble, but Cauhty's world of disaster has been created with miniature model-making kits, the playthings of children and hobbyists.

The world of disaster relief is an incestuous one: both Joe Allbaugh, Mr Bush's first FEMA director, and James Lee Witt, Bill Clinton's FEMA director (and now an adviser to Louisiana's governor), have consulting companies that help firms navigate the government bureaucracy.The really big money and the bigger political tests for Mr Bush lie in the knottier medium-term questions.

Things are bad enough as they are, Hall said, but "if this had happened next week, we would be in a world of disaster".

"Pohl's characters are people on the edge -- of society, of their world, of disaster, of time -- people shoved to the margins who then volunteer for the arena," James Sallis wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 2006.

A world of disasters 2.2m People killed by natural disasters since 1975 50% Predicted increase in number of people affected by natural disasters between 2009 and 2015 375m People expected to be affected by climate-related disasters each year by 2015.

Perhaps it's that in a world of disasters both natural and political, a world in which there is so much violence and so much misery, New York's hawks have overcome numerous obstacles to try to achieve success, stability and the continuation of their species.

"Right across the world, because of disaster, because of poverty, children are being denied a chance to change their destinies.

Living with the ever-present threat of the Big One – a huge quake that experts say is due to strike Tokyo in the coming decades – has turned the city into the world capital of disaster readiness, according to 2020 organising officials.

Yet maritime outrages, though they help remind the world of the disaster that is Somalia, are only one reason to do something about the place.

The motivation for this study is to test the potential of service learning to impart students with both the scientific background and the skills necessary to navigate the real-world constraints of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).