How To Use Disaster In A Sentence

Critics argue it was only Lottery money and government cash that prevented the Games from being a financial disaster.
When faced with serious disasters, countries often declare a formal state of emergency.
Guardian International correspondent Jonathan Steele called Bush's and Blair's denial of the horrors attending the Iraq civil war "Panglossian" - referring to the ever optimistic Dr. Pangloss of Voltaire's novel Candide who, at every disaster, proclaims that ours is the best of all possible worlds. Surge to Purge: The 80% Solution in Iraq
And it was fine for all the media celebs to go to a ball game but it was a total disaster for Kerry to do so.
India's reply was a total disaster, with wickets falling too rapidly due to run-outs.

The investigation will try to find out where the guilt for the disaster really lies.
At the Bradford football stadium disaster on 11 May 1985, 56 fans were killed when a stand burnt down.
At home in Harrogate, Leon's mother watched as news of the disaster broke, knowing of her son's plan to dive on Boxing Day.
I'm still unsure about this one; it could turn out really cool, or an absolute disaster ... my main motivation is that i don't wanna spend money on a haircut. decisions, decisions purchase any of the following: Kindle, iPod Touch, or MacBook Archive 2009-02-01
Australia plays a leading role in advancing APEC's responses to human security issues such as communicable diseases, emergency disaster relief preparedness, counter-terrorism, climate change and energy security. Australia Strengthens APEC
Consequently, the practical politicians and their realistic programs can create nothing but a disaster.
It was the third major air disaster involving aircraft flying in or out of the airport in the space of eight years.
The first task following the disaster was the restoration of clean water supplies.
Yesterday's quake struck along the same 'ring of fire' faultline that caused the 2004 disaster. Times, Sunday Times
It is widely regarded as an architectural disaster, aesthetically unpleasing and out of keeping with the rest of the College.
On the face of it, the move appeared to be a disaster for May. Times, Sunday Times
She seemed to be wallowing in her grief, instead of trying to recover from the disaster.
But I knew I had to hang on for another lap because it would have been a disaster to lose after such a great fightback.
Like dictators and führers, politicians always come to the scene of a natural disaster carrying a wad of cash.
But there was the tiniest presentiment of disaster.
All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama
Holding the rod high whilst playing a fish is often a recipe for disaster, especially when the fish is close to the boat.
His robust strength made him survive the disaster.
These consequences have yet to be understood by most physicians, not to mention the public, the media or arguably even the promulgators of this impending disaster.
To fly with such a burden in daylight is simply to court disaster. Development of Aircraft in War
Disaster was obviated by the opening of the reserve parachute.
Japan has been praised for its stoicism in the face of a national disaster, but have its leaders and their ideals betrayed the people? Times, Sunday Times
Disaster follows disaster, yet on we merrily go. Times, Sunday Times
Allthough it could be just prudent housekeeping ahead of the expected cuts and the hootsmon is spinning it as a "rammy with westminster" article, we all know Westminster are going to be scrooge and cant afford it after Browns disaster. The SNP Myth of the £500m cut and related matters
There was widespread destruction on the island of Sant’ Elena, where an even larger disaster was narrowly averted by when the twister nearly struck a crowded vaporetto moored at a pontile. A Tornado in Venice
When no decisive successes were scored in either 1779 or 1780, France seemed to be staring disaster in the face.
Staff here say that would spell disaster for hundreds of alcoholics.
The reason for the disaster was engine failure, not human error.
at the beginning of bubble formation, the Japanese government didn't address it properly and in a timely manner, sowing the seeds for an irreversible future disaster.
he prophetically anticipated the disaster
But there's a falsity in the reaction to the disaster that both intrigues and disgusts me.
There were dire warnings of an ecological disaster and world oil prices through the roof as the Iraqis set fire to the oil fields.
The charity aims to relieve poverty and distress caused by natural disasters.
Natural deterrents against sea erosion (mangroves, sandbanks, reefs etc.) have been depleted to such extents that their revival cannot be considered a viable plan to counter sea disasters.
The accusations were incredibly serious -- elements within the national staff had conspired to produce a disaster. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
She seemed to be wallowing in her grief, instead of trying to recover from the disaster.
I repeat that this pageful of disasters is merely the record of an average day, when nothing much is happening: and incidentally it occurs in a newspaper which, rather than most, tries to put a good face on things. As I Please
Britain's worst oil-related disaster was the 1988 explosion and fire on the North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha off the Scottish coast, which killed 167 riggers.
In her earlier, greater work, someone - in the end, among the disasters and the funny bits and the painful stumbles and everyone crashing out in some way - would have come through smiling.
We met while I was transitioning out of a long-term relationship that had ended in disaster, and I was on a serious antiman campaign. No Strings Attached
The North Battleford and Walkerton water disasters hit Canadians as a mighty shock.
To be irresolute when a prompt decision should be taken would only spell disaster.
Yet when it happens there is a mad scramble to see what is possible in terms of rescue and then what needs to be put in place to avert marine ecological disaster, prior to rescuing or salvaging the vessel.
What tugs at Carlyon's heartstrings is the fate of the soldiers, the boys from the outback and the small towns who dreamed of glory but found only death and disaster in the barren wastes of Gallipoli.
A disaster for the media, but worth a gloat from everyone else.
We did some, not enough" in shedding holdings in response to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico's Macondo field, he said. Energy Fund Largely Passed Oil-Spill Test
The duds keeping one job ahead of their last disaster would be found out and punished. Times, Sunday Times
- And the Haiti disaster caused lots of death, which is quite important to the evolutionism that is central to the Dawkins-like world-view; and reduction of world population is central in the extreme forms of ecologism/environmentalism. Pious Atheism « Anglican Samizdat
He is undertaking the walk in order to raise money for victims of the tsunami disaster and underprivileged people in the local community.
Its final voyage ended in disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937, when it was coming into land after a transatlantic crossing.
The accident is already shaping up as a significant environmental disaster.
Then the news blew it up as this great disaster. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile he said that if a person or company was found to have caused the disaster, insurance companies would file a "subrogation" claim. Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals
These disasters are part of a trend, as monsoon floods have grown more frequent in recent years. Times, Sunday Times
You have all the elements of a potential disaster in the making, speed, unpredictable elements, cold weather and mountains.
The accident threatened an ecological disaster for the remote Shetland Islands and its fishing, tourism and farming industries.
The comet was the talk, especially in the evening, of the world, as it was taken to forerun disasters. The Lincoln Story Book
Does this augur disaster for our team?
The meeting was, in sum, a disaster.
Buchanan has said he would gradually eliminate all foreign economic aid and give only limited assistance in instances of humanitarian disasters.
At the same time, Gaon, the Israeli playwright, attempted to use his version as a way of providing the audience with a more balanced view -- the duel of the Palestinian and Israeli narratives, if you will, which goes back to 1948 and Israel's War of Independence and the Palestinians' Nakba Disaster That may explain why Gaon has been criticized by both Palestinians and Israelis. Leon T. Hadar: Return to Haifa: Whose Narrative Is It Anyway?
News of the disaster hit the Stock Exchange around noon.
Initially, there will be uproar with protests and dire warnings of disaster. The Sun
We had a predictably halting start, but there were no shockers or disasters.
Actually, to delay reporting about disasters is almost a tradition here, partly because of officialism and localism.
We are facing an ecological disaster. Times, Sunday Times
The new topical news programme has been launched and is turning into a disaster. Times, Sunday Times
In the event of a conflagrant disaster each passenger could be immediately identified.
Unlike the destruction caused by an earthquake, which may affect several buildings across an expansive area, this disaster involved many buildings and a massive debris pile in a small, confined area.
Even though the authorities were unwilling to acknowledge the extent of the disaster, some Western aid was accepted.
The party had considered the possibility of disaster for one man, and that had been the principal reason for despatching the two in different directions. Chapter VIII
May 12, 2008, a magnitude about 8.0 large earthquake has taken place in Wenchuan County at Sichuan Province,China. In spite of the big earthquake, we will not shake the resolve and even bigger rain, we poured immortal love. Without frontiers, Chinese people's love spread in the disaster.
the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster
She was conscious that many women would have seen such a sartorial disaster as comical.
Seeing the disaster zone in the cold light of day can be enough to speed a headache to a full-blown hangover.
Relatives of victims of Bradford's worst industrial disaster came together to unveil a memorial stone 120 years on.
Merseyside, in 1958, a disaster that still haunts the argument for de-accession, the decisions then made on grounds of fashion rather than quality. Evening Standard - Home
The three provinces along the Changjiang River were designated as a disaster area.
And many work units are virtual disaster areas in terms of fairness and worker satisfaction.
The sales campaign was a total disaster.
The third airlift was a total disaster, with bundles dropping into enemy hands and planes and gliders crash-landing throughout the area.
No other credible entity, public or private, had the experience and technical know-how to cope with the disaster.
Charles V, now aware what a disaster the Guzmán-led first audiencia had been, was determined not to repeat his mistake. Vasco de Quiroga: notes on a practical Utopian (1470–1565)
Now it must be recognized that not all involvement of magicians in parapsychology has proven useful; there have been minor disasters in this regard.
Roads and bridges, public utilities such as sewerage, buildings and machinery, schools, hospitals and power supplies have all been severely damaged in the disaster area. Australian Assistance for Fiji Flooding Disaster
The UN is supervising the distribution of aid by local agencies in the disaster area.
Given the Bush disaster change sounded great but when specifics begin to take shape all the gored oxes line up to threaten cataclysm. Poll of Polls: President's approval ratings slip
Large-scale inflation is a recipe for disaster.
Schemes such as interlinking of rivers could spell disaster for the environment, as they represent gross interference with natural processes, he says.
One by one the witnesses narrated the sequence of events which led up to the disaster.
This may well be a price worth paying to lessen the risk of another financial disaster. Times, Sunday Times
_What_ disaster it was that was thus knelled forth they knew not, and could hardly believe the tidings when given in articulate words. Great Britain and Her Queen
The town was declared a disaster area after the floods.
The disaster was caused by the total collapse of his house in the Rue d' Anjou, undermined by the excavations carried out by the bank next door for its strong room.
In attempting to place in perspective the scale of the disaster that had befallen it when South Korea sent its team of inflated egos homewards to mamma and a comforting bowl of minestrone, it turned to history.
Disaster dreams reveal a connection between your inner feelings and outer actions.
It's a video litany of natural disasters, of wind and rain and snow and donder and blitzen, punctuated with images of lesser vehicles incapacitated by the elements, while Hummers sail serenely through. Patt Morrison: Hummer? No, Bummer!
If diving for wrecks turns you on, Bermuda is a veritable treasure trove of maritime disaster, with a wreck collection including 16th century Spanish galleons, warships and a luxury transatlantic liner.
He is right to point out that our response to national disasters is often selfishly inappropriate.
As our older generation knows from experience, unchecked aggression against a small nation is a prelude to international disaster.
Before the Zeebrugge disaster many hauliers were frankly complacent about these matters.
Meantime, the federal budget deficit remains untamed and likely to be aggravated by this disaster.
We observed a minute's silence out of respect for the disaster victims.
SNOW: Now, in addition to establishing a peace treaty, a former UNIFIL official says unless there is a clear mandate, there will be what he describes as a toothless U.N. peacekeeping force that will turn out only to be a disaster -- Wolf. CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2006
The church bell used to be rung to signify disaster.
No respect for the rule of law, utter narcissism, absolutely untrustworthy to anyone close to them who trusts them (the Clinton/Edwards tradition), unlimited ability to pursue public policies leading to disaster if it provides the ability to pander to their ultra-left donors - all wrapped around with endless self righteousness. Spitzer considering Senate run? …No, really? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
Bank of England officials continued to insist that the pound would soon return to stability but disaster struck.
During the bad weather we experienced a few disasters and events, but they were of little consequence.
Scientists have described the Aral sea as the site of the worst ecological disaster on earth.
The beetroot plants are looking good, and I took some of the leaves to cook yesterday although it turned into a culinary disaster so it didn't get eaten!
As the oil slick from the recent offshore oil rig disaster makes its way to Gulf Coast shores - expected to devastate the precious ecosystem and hurt struggling businesses - the seeds of political fallout for the Obama administration are beginning to sprout. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Monday, May 3, 2010
Sometimes weather disasters show up man-made failures. Times, Sunday Times
God help us all at this time of national disaster.
The appointment is not a disaster, though it shows a poverty of imagination.
The services help the Corps build dams, waterways, roads and other national infrastructure, as well as assist in disaster relief.
Severe drought and other natural disasters struck the country in 1997-98, possibly as a result of the effects of El Niño.
National members face a disaster, in fact, as they try to explain what it is they intend to do.
Fortunately, the remaining part of the music archive was undamaged by the disaster: this comprises an important collection of madrigals, vesperals and processionals, including an outstanding fifteenth-century Processional for Holy Week, well-known to scholars.
However, now that the disaster has occured, and the buildings are mostly destroyed, why not re-level the city – that is, demolish all structures, remove/burn the non-cementitious debris and then add fill dirt to add 20 ft elevation everywhere? Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine
Sully also has an advantage since it tells the tale of disaster averted. The Sun
However, intellectuals can alter the course of unnatural disasters such as government.
PENSACOLA - Brown gooey oil slopped into the Perdido and Pensacola passes Thursday, the first confirmed invasion of oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster into Florida's inland waterways. TCPalm Stories
These figures move slowly around a terrain apparently laid waste by some great disaster.
With CAP, a volunteer can work on a number of fronts, including search and rescue, disaster relief and counterdrug missions Volunteer opportunities in government can help build resumes, open doors
What do you call a gigantic man-made disaster that is threatening to despoil the ecosystems and wreck the economies of the Gulf Coast? BP touts itself as 'green,' but faces PR disaster with 'BP oil spill'
There was widespread criticism of the government's handling of the disaster.
If last year's harvest was a disaster, this year's crop is going to be at least twice as bad.
This may well be a price worth paying to lessen the risk of another financial disaster. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Robinson said he had been horrified to watch the Boxing Day disaster unfold and was desperate to raise money from busking as he could not afford to give any cash himself.
For Leite de Cobra [pt], the way in which the non-arrival of the airbus and supposed disaster has been treated is outrageous: Global Voices in English » Air Bus AF 447: Sorrow, lack of information and sensationalism
Men will shelter her, and explain things to her, and cover up for her mistakes; in the worst cases — like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which is a carnival of disaster on a gender front as well as a racial one — her every action will be upstaged by those of a half-grown boy, thus establishing that a male of any age will always be more useful than a woman. The problem of the Childlike Empress at SF Novelists
This is a very sad collection of songs put together, but what was a second rate band in their heyday is a total disaster today.
Introducing a new leading character can spell disaster or triumph for an author.
For a larger teaching university without big research grants such a move would spell financial disaster. Times, Sunday Times
In Crown & Country he provides the reader with enough intellectual rigour to impart context, before livening the page with pithy tales of treachery or cruelty, of double-dealing or disaster. Crown & Country by David Starkey - review
Keep is cut and ground of disaster, is to use the whole life also enemy but the illusion.
In order to facilitate normal maintenance, disaster recovery, and business continuity, it is recommended that each volume group name be a unique value across the enterprise.
Other disasters include sorrel that grew well but attracted a nasty black beetle, valerian that soon dwarfed the conifer it was expected to complement, and strawberries.
The whole holiday was a catalogue of disasters.
In the early days of Operation Iraqi Disaster, I engaged in some fact-based blog discussion with what can only be described as a hard-right, neo-fascist group of truly wacky self-described “veterans”, who took my dissention from the party line as a clear case of Treason, and Anti-Americanism. Waldo Jaquith - High-profile bloggers planning code of conduct.
To avoid a disaster, eurozone governments may need to take a risk. Times, Sunday Times
My chicken and ham pie was a disaster. Times, Sunday Times
After the disaster there were many who wanted food and shelter.
It is not the job of the investigating committee to allocate blame for the disaster/to allocate blame to individuals.
There may be lassitude in the federal response to natural disaster, but that is not the same as culpability, and still less is it culpability for the failings the critics invariably cite.
A lot of slapstick, seat-of-the-pants saving dishes from total disaster, which involved even more galloping around. Times, Sunday Times
After the disaster, victims were crying, parents were crying, Sichuan was crying, China was crying, Every Chinese was crying. However, Premier Wen said, "Do not cry, children, every thing will be all right." Yes, we should not cry, because this world is full of love, because China is full of love.
The programme features their music with memories of the disaster. Times, Sunday Times
I had grown accustomed to hearing about disasters and fighting in the sub continent.
The five-year marriage was a disaster. Times, Sunday Times
On the other hand, as Mark Noll and others have shown, revivalism was a disaster for American Christian theology and thought.
It was the world's second worst air disaster, a horrific re-run of the runway collision in 1977.
An April 21, 2009 memo by the staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee concluded that, had the Bayer accident involved a 37,000-pound tank of methyl isocyanate (MIC) located just 80 feet from the blast, the accident could have "eclipsed the 1984 [Bhopal] disaster in India. Elizabeth Hitchcock: In The Public Interest : How Many Reminders Do We Need Before We Act To Reduce Chemical Accident Risk?
As Kipling put it in his poem: ‘If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same…’
We are used to Hollywood disaster movies, but this has been far worse, for real.
It was the worst natural disaster to hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The conditions at the ammunition dump considerably worsened the scale of the disaster.
Governor Jeb Bush declared the state a disaster area on Wednesday to speed aid after the storm hits.
Tens of thousands more suffered terrible injuries in the world's worst industrial disaster.
May 12, 2008, a magnitude about 8.0 large earthquake has taken place in Wenchuan County at Sichuan Province,China. In spite of the big earthquake, we will not shake the resolve and even bigger rain, we poured immortal love. Without frontiers, Chinese people's love spread in the disaster.
Every cave was silent, lest it also attract disaster.
The system, called DeHiGate, allows emergency workers to effectively set up their own private network in a crisis, one that can't be clogged by outside communications. cell phones or other mobile equipment that allows them to talk with each other and the command vehicle, as well as transmit on-the-scene video of the disaster, said Vidar Karlsen, a manager at the Norwegian branch of the French electronics firm Thales, which is helping develop the system. Livescience.com
The setting is one of abject poverty and misery, yet the upbeat caption tells us that even victims of disaster need a good shoeshine.
They, perhaps inevitably, created a logistical disaster.
Since then he has known both glory and disaster, but yesterday as the Tour entered the Alps he managed the grand slam: the sixth stage win of his career, the maillot jaune and the polka-dot King of the Mountains jersey.
Responsibility for the disaster must ultimately lie with the government.
Vertical integration has caused a crop of disasters.
But to me the most frightening aspect of the whole disaster was that the clamorous Tasman Sea went suddenly quiet - eerily so - and though I waited for its comforting roar to resume, I can't remember ever hearing it so noisy again.
There is no factual, theoretic, historical or evidentiary basis for “fiscal stimulus” or money dilution as cures for economic disasters. Matthew Yglesias » Was Health Reform a Political Blunder? How Could We Know?
Later, in a memorial service for the disaster's victims, Gustav sought to spread a pall of general bafflement over events, including the government's dereliction.
God help us all at this time of national disaster.
That doesn't deter Humanity Road volunteers, who work round-the-clock shifts because few people severely injured in a major disaster last longer than 48 hours, she says. Japan crisis showcases social media's muscle
The Los Alamos area was officially declared a disaster area after the forest fires there in May.
Take the most cursory look at the week's disasters. Times, Sunday Times
The expected disaster – with customers being cut off after two drinks and unknowledgable cooks doing things like flambéing reduction – is somewhat amusing to watch.
However, this is Hollywood: just as we are aroused by the images of disaster films, we are exhilarated by scenes of destruction.
The tsunami is possibly the worst natural disaster ever.
Add to this a kind of adhesiveness (we can hardly call it obstinacy or pertinacity) of temper, which can make no allowance for change of circumstances, and we think we have a tolerably clear notion of the causes of General McClellan's disasters. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
US President Barack Obama pledged to "use every single available resource" amid fears that it could become the worst environmental disaster in US history.
It may be that the regulations introduced since the 1980s are all that stands between us and environmental and financial disaster. Times, Sunday Times
With much foreboding from the other characters as to how the disaster has altered the healthy course of her mind, she commits herself to the path of revenge and vows to regain their inheritance from her bitter uncle or his invalid son. Wilkie Collins’ No Name « Tales from the Reading Room
The residents come together in the aftermath of the disaster. The Sun
He talks to others who had a brush with disaster fighting fires and rock-climbing in the Blue Mountains.
When the media focus our attention on the aftermath of disasters, it is easy to empty our wallets for the agonized sufferers.
Finally, we examine whether investors react rationally to disaster announcements.
This disc is worth at least a rental, and if you're a fan of disaster type flicks, a purchase.
The rest can only hide in their holes, or like lemmings rush to disaster en masse.
Their expedition nearly ended in disaster , when one of the climbers slid off the mountain.
Earthquakes and tsunamis are not the only natural disasters in need of better forecasting.
Letting her organize the party is a recipe for disaster .
The long silence that followed would become a familiar feature of night raids filled with uncertainty and pregnant with disaster.
If he thinks he can remain in power by force he is courting disaster.
Most will be skewed in an alchemic attempt to put the face of success on an unmitigated disaster. Michael Brenner: Playing God in the Middle East
But isolation is a disaster for peaceniks, because there is no way peace can happen without the world's help.
Just more grandstanding from the same administration that brought us to the brink of disaster. Ridge: Terror suspect doesn't deserve 'full range' of rights

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