Example Sentences

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Alongside bird flu, extreme environmental conditions and national disasters have caused food prices to soar.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2025

The civil protection agency, deployed during national disasters, did not issue an alert until 20:15 on Tuesday evening local time, by which time several places in Valencia had been flooded for hours.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2024

Experts had wondered if that may have been related to a phenomenon seen in the early stages of wars and national disasters in which people band together and support each other.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2022

Public-health experts generally agree that the federal government alone has the power to coordinate a comprehensive response to a nationwide pandemic, and throughout the last century it has usually taken the lead during national disasters.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2020

That a nature capable of high development should be precluded by poverty from all development is the deepest of personal and national disasters, though it happen, as it does happen, several thousand times a year.

From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.