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Example sentences for: disaster

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It was totally covered by several feet of ash during the eruption around 1500 b.c., but unlike the tragic city of Pompeii in Italy, no human remains have been found, leading scientists to believe that the population escaped before the disaster took place.
Before 1993, no snowstorm or blizzard had been declared a "major disaster or emergency" by the president (though federal help had been offered in a dozen or so other "winter events" in which additional damage, such as the downing of utility lines, had occurred).
The China National Nuclear Corp. said the Japanese disaster was due entirely to "poor management and human error" and had nothing to do with nuclear technology.
There is a possible defense for their actions: They may have believed that the men who rule Russia were finally beginning to see the light, that in their own self-interest they would agree to cough up the money the country needed to avoid disaster, but they needed a little time.
Wary Iowans not socked G-string flashers Boost disaster.