This is the largest metropolitan area disaster in decades, and it was not a natural disaster it was a disaster of engineering.

Coping with Catastrophic Risks

Yes! With the usual disastrous results!

The worst catastrophe in years.

Mobile satellite services would seem to be the most effective in disaster relief, since they were the most resistant to the effects of disasters.

And why does sex make babies, and babies spell erotic disaster in couples?

Preventing catastrophic terrorism

Given the nature and scale of the disaster, solidarity on the part of the international community is an absolute necessity if those countries that have been affected are to overcome the consequences of the catastrophe.

When disaster struck, the most vulnerable segments of society were the ones most affected.

And basically the economy would be in a disaster state of affairs.

This was the calamitous year of the Gulf war.

The financial situation was disastrous.

Grischa.

It was the worst ever disaster in the region's history.

The effects of HIV AIDS can be devastating to women, who are the most vulnerable group in the poorest countries.

They are also most vulnerable to natural disasters.

The conflict had devastating consequences on children.

Calls on the Member States to assist the Republic of Djibouti in its struggle against the disastrous consequences of the recent flood at both the social and economic levels.

Many investors said that this punishment would be catastrophic.

A typical disaster story disease, corruption, poverty.

Over the past 25 years, continuous mine infestation had created a catastrophic situation there.

A few years ago, Professor Vaclav Smil tried to calculate the probability of sudden disasters large enough to change history.

155. Humanitarian assistance is essential for the victims of natural disasters and other emergencies, including major technological and man made disasters.

My father had been in a catastrophic car accident, and he died.

Yesterday apos s ideas and ways are the recipe for new suffering and even for a total catastrophe.

Mr. Kanu (Sierra Leone) said that, given the potentially disastrous effect of sanctions, they should be imposed only as a last resort.

The impact of the embargo on the most vulnerable sectors of the population (women, children and elderly persons) was a near disaster.

Disaster risk reduction, peace building, and conflict prevention were, therefore, as important before, during and after a disaster.

It left behind catastrophic death and destruction, untold misery and immeasurable suffering.

The international community will need to make a collective effort to establish an integrated early warning system in order to predict and to protect against such natural disasters, in terms of both preparing for and mitigating their destructive effects.

(a) The integration of disaster reduction strategies into the national development processes of those countries most significantly affected by natural and similar hazards

The Maldives is the only country to have faced a nationwide disaster from the tsunami.

It is believed that Myanmar continues to produce landmines, with devastating effects.

Led presentation of evidence before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into breach of the Kantalai Tank Bund, a national disaster which occurred on 20 April 1986.

Catastrophes that we can avert are not as interesting as ones we could avert.

We commend the local communities, which were the first to respond following the disaster.

A sustained, coordinated response is needed if we are to avoid an ignoble disaster fatigue that treats a natural disaster in one country as a momentary distraction from normalcy, as television images determine, until the next one arrives.

So a plague outbreak in Surat, India becomes not an obscure event, but a globalized event a globalized concern that has changed the risk equation.

Anti personnel landmines, or APLs, have catastrophic consequences for civilian populations.

Europe u0027s Calamity

On behalf of the people and the Government of the Marshall Islands, I wish to express our condolences and sympathies to the victims and families who have suffered severely as a result of the recent catastrophic Hurricane Katrina in the United States.

The policy of the IMF was totally coherent, yet totally catastrophic.

They're probably having, at the very least, a catastrophic spawning season this year.

Energy investment decisions made today will lock in the world s emissions profile for years to come. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking.

They don't have to do global devastation.