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Example sentences for: disaster

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Natural disaster books dominate best-seller lists for the same reason: In an age without great wars, these are our war narratives.
The Bush administration's approach to the unfolding disaster in Yugoslavia might be characterized as inaction backed up by indifference.
According to the Telegraph , this is the worst disaster to befall the pigeon world since 80,000 British homing pigeons were killed by torrential rain over the English Channel in June 1997.
Many people immigrating from Mexico, for instance, have painted or commissioned a retablo in gratitude for surviving a disaster or an illness.
"Once the bombing commenced, I think then [Slobodan] Milosevic unleashed his forces, and then that's when the slaughtering and the massive ethnic cleansing really started," Nickles said at a news conference after appearing on Meet the Press . "The administration's campaign has been a disaster.