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How to use disaster in a sentence

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The enormity of the disaster seems, though, to have brought out the best in people.
What happened next, he explains could lead to a real disaster in the future.
The disaster left the world in great grief, but it has responded with unprecedented benevolence.
In recent decades, quakes felt in San Diego, a city lacking a big disaster in its history, have tended to be far-away temblors with a long reach.
These four topmost secrets in page layout are so crucial that to break them may spell disaster or the end of your precious site.
The flood disaster in southern Africa continues to take its toll, with more heavy rain hindering the relief operation.
The Met has been using its world-renowned expertise to help identify victims of the disaster and support family members who survived the tragedy.
The setting is one of abject poverty and misery, yet the upbeat caption tells us that even victims of disaster need a good shoeshine.
The tsunami has certainly equipped a number of people with the skills to handle post disaster emotional and psychological sequels.
When I first read news of this ecological disaster in a national paper I dismissed it as journalistic sensationalism.
The positive identification of the body means the bodies of all four Irish people lost in the disaster have been recovered.
Assuming they get the necessary point against Croatia on Monday, inevitable disaster awaits the Poms in the quarters or semis.
The emergency services were informed of the disaster by the ship's emergency radio beacon.
We are stuck with the world we have lost, as news of the latest Homeric disaster emerges from the battlefronts of Mesopotamia.
In IT, a disaster recovery plan is critical for a business dealing in information.
He talks to others who had a brush with disaster fighting fires and rock-climbing in the Blue Mountains.
Memories of the disaster may not be there in the minds of children below the age of three, he says.
Last February's disaster exposed the inadequacy of barriers dividing road and railway.
The general good cheer of the bar was, for a brief time, nearly turned to disaster by a dispute between Laurie's husband and the local barkeep.
The assured, if not present, would receive notice of the disaster from his agent, the master of the ship.
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But one year on and still no significant step has been taken to stop another disaster happening.
Sometime in the past some giant disaster had caused martial law to be declared.
When no decisive successes were scored in either 1779 or 1780, France seemed to be staring disaster in the face.
Just as it seemed the worst of this natural disaster had passed, a man-made disaster erupted.
One difference between cinematic and televisual depictions of disaster involves the different visual logics of the two media.
The section on the 11th September disaster and its aftermath, teases out an sometimes nuanced criticism of US foreign policy.
She was conscious that many women would have seen such a sartorial disaster as comical.
That is no excuse, though, for the tardy international response to a disaster which was not hidden from view but unfolded beneath our very eyes.
Only a disaster of the most profound magnitude will awake the American people.
I did, however, do my part to try to avert the disaster that ended about five years later in divorce.
Two weeks later, passengers on another Greyhound bus were credited with averting disaster in Utah after they helped thwart an alleged hijacker.
Yet just as it seemed that disaster was averted another major problem started.
Back in the 1950s, John Stewart, a Glasgow-born theatre director, had a mad idea which had all the hallmarks of disaster about it.
A terrible disaster like this attracts massive attention, on rolling television news stations and the Internet as well as in newspapers.
If he governs according to what he said during the campaign, it will be a lumpish mess at best and could be disaster for the Democratic Party.
His response to the disaster of the war is to attack those who opposed the war.
Mr Hoult said that at a stretch, local authorities could cope with a disaster on the scale of Lockerbie.
The department of local disaster relief blamed the damaging natural catastrophe on continuous rain in the area in recent days.
The fact is that both the old parties are a disaster when it comes to managing Victoria's forests.
Free access to additional borrowings can make life easy for those who manage their money sensibly, but prove a disaster for spendthrifts.
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Farmers face financial disaster after freak rain storms thrashed crops into muddy ruin.
When ticket sales are poor and disaster looms he promises something a little extra.
The Bureau of Meteorology warned authorities on January 15 that a disaster was looming.
The match proved a disaster for striker Ryan Senior, who broke a leg not long after his goal.
I'm certainly glad a lone voice of reason has discussed this disaster in the South.
Your article on arsenic poisoning of drinking water in Bangladesh and India clearly illustrated a terrible disaster for many millions of people.
First, the sheer scale of the disaster puts it in the running for the dubious title of worst natural disaster in living memory.
Of course, the lion's share of responsibility for disaster management falls on the individual.
Outcrossing the wrong two dogs can be much more of a disaster than line breeding the right ones.
Shopping around for the right riad can be as fun or as fraught with disaster as going to the souk.
The rest can only hide in their holes, or like lemmings rush to disaster en masse.
Union activists and left wing officials told Socialist Worker it would be a disaster to become mesmerised by those talks.
They are angry that the government has used the disaster to ban people from resettling within 200 metres of the seashore.
The area in question has now been declared a disaster zone, and provincial funding has been requested to help the afflicted fishermen.
With a burn specialist at the core, the hospital disaster management team also includes a respiratory physician and an anaesthetist.
The chance of disaster was appreciably high and you voluntarily and reprehensibly took that risk with its terrible consequences.
When Bates took control, the board had gone some way to mitigating that position, and yet disaster still lurked.
Today an unprecedented three-minute silence will be held across Europe in remembrance of the disaster victims.
Residents living near the site of the Holbeck Hall Hotel disaster fear a scheme to build a large new house in the area could lead to landslips.
And he wants to use the occasion to urge people to keep contributing to tsunami disaster relief.
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The services help the Corps build dams, waterways, roads and other national infrastructure, as well as assist in disaster relief.
It has assisted with disaster relief in Central Asia, the Caucasus, Lebanon, and the Persian Gulf region.
I've created an edition of prints to benefit the Tsunami disaster relief efforts.
Firefighters in Bingley are hoping to wash hundreds of vehicles to raise funds to help the tsunami disaster relief effort.
Out of 150 or so shares, theirs were alighted on the two greatest corporate disaster zones in the big stock arena.
The song was available on phonograph records within less than a year of the wreck and remains one of the better of the railroad disaster genre.
It is the country's worst maritime disaster and ranks as one of the world's worst ferry accidents of all time.
I know nothing has been officially decided yet, but the writing is on the wall and we are looking at an utter disaster for the town.
Relatives of victims of Bradford's worst industrial disaster came together to unveil a memorial stone 120 years on.
If the Government is serious about disaster preparedness, it is going to have to start with the fundamentals.
When a natural disaster occurs somewhere in the world and people want to help, we'll provide information and an immediate way to contribute.
A feature of natural disasters in developing countries is that the magnitude of the disaster seems to be amplified.
Some Americans are afraid the next disaster might be handled as badly as the last one and they're stocking up for survival.
The natural disaster caused incalculable loss of life in many countries around the perimeter of the Indian Ocean.
I guessed that my life was such a disaster that I didn't have the mind to have a dream, a wish of my own.
Rain storms and windstorms and turbulent waves and whatever other kind of disaster existed had thrown itself at them.
This especially holds true if local owners of commercial and residential properties do not want to rebuild in the disaster area.
It would be a disaster for the BBC if the government handed the post of chairman to someone who was great, good, but essentially unversed.
This is the largest natural disaster that this country has ever seen in terms of the destruction that has been caused.
The threat posed by the unromantically named asteroid 2002 NT7 is an eerie echo of the plot of disaster movies such as Armageddon.
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Anthrax just isn't the public health disaster that smallpox has the potential to be.
The unmitigated disaster that administration produced paved the way for Republican ascendency.
It was the third major air disaster involving aircraft flying in or out of the airport in the space of eight years.
The Australian Government and indeed the public have just become aware of the worst maritime disaster ever seen in our neck of the woods.
The end result is a response that falls into either unmitigated disaster or total bliss as to an evaluation of the state of my mind.
But in the nature of things, sometimes the greatest disaster is the greatest opportunity.
Twenty-five federal disaster areas, thousands of unlivable homes, 11,000 applications for federal aid, and counting.
A dream wedding turned into a disaster after 24 guests went down with food poisoning, including the groom.
Yet the real disaster will be if Pyongyang continues on its present road to nowhere.
Before the disaster it was universally accepted the safest way to escape from a fire was via the stairs.
The Chargers have been confident Bennett could pull them out of disaster with his booming punts.
It's an engaging slice of life and a rare example of a disaster film that doesn't rely on special effects.
As it turned out the League Final was a disaster and an unexplainable mystery all rolled into one.
He is undertaking the walk in order to raise money for victims of the tsunami disaster and underprivileged people in the local community.
The player's decision is a disaster for his club, a real kick in the teeth for his employers.
The uncontrollability of the disaster is reassessed because the viewer is caught in the scene, in a crime, in the fate of humanity itself.
Since the disaster it's been a constant challenge to maintain motivation and morale.
There's got to be a morning after, as the line from the disaster movie song goes.
It would turn into a disaster for Tom as a problem made the car a real handful.
You'd never forget as you go through the film what real disaster has happened here.
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Finally, we examine whether investors react rationally to disaster announcements.
Messages of condolence have gone out from Rochdale to its Ukrainian twin town of Lviv after a disaster at the town's air show at the weekend.
When Carolyn Hewson quit the AMP board in December 2001, she had a chance to blow the whistle on the disaster that lay ahead.
No disaster can hit the world, without audiences increasingly turning to those new producers of information.
Still it wasn't a disaster yet, but it would mean turning Theophilus loose on acquiring the oil.
Whether it's fire or flood, disaster is never far away and can strike at any moment.
The Asian tsunami is the greatest humanitarian disaster in recent world history.
The response of engineers to this disaster was to go back to building bridges with reinforced trussed decks.
We highly recommend this gorgeous, briskly-told picture, which avoids all the usual conventions of the true-life disaster tale.
In June the country was praised for its disaster preparations in a Red Cross report.
Students and community members packed the Great Hall for a touching vigil for the victims of the recent tsunami disaster in southeast Asia.
Or is this a disaster waiting to happen in the form of massive comments spam, trolls, and other blog delights?
It seems almost trite to say it is a major disaster but it is difficult to find words to express the significance of this second attack.
Anyway, disaster mitigation is typically not an area where partisan divisions are relevant.
By the time I actually had a look and noticed the disaster on my plate, the waitress had shot through like a Bondi tram.
That disaster has repeatedly brought home the face of suffering and misery over the last few months.
But this time it is a disaster for the travelers, who are carrying a dead man on a bier to his tomb in his homeland.
Comments on everything from television coverage following the disaster, to donations, refugees and Ray Martin's dash to the disaster zone.
Most shikara owners feel that if a Pahalgam like incident occurs again, it would be a disaster for tourism.
You have all the elements of a potential disaster in the making, speed, unpredictable elements, cold weather and mountains.
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It may have been behind the worst climatic disaster of recent times, responsible for famine and death on a biblical scale.
Its final voyage ended in disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937, when it was coming into land after a transatlantic crossing.
With the help of an uncultured druid, he must destroy an accursed object in order to avert disaster and save his own life.
The disaster also deals a shattering blow to the railway industry as a whole.
The next step is determining the severity of the disaster and responding accordingly.
Random accidents and everyday tragedies become just another ratings-boosting gimmick, filling airtime before the next disaster strikes.
Attempting to put the disaster of the day behind me and enjoy the evening didn't go quite according to plan.
Tens of millions more are underinsured, and face financial disaster in the event of serious illness or injury.
The California energy disaster has left the once-vigorous electricity deregulation process in shambles.
If disaster strikes again, however, he knows that he has more to fall back on.
In the Elliot district, which it was declared a disaster area in July following heavy falls, light snow fell again yesterday.
Victims of the disaster and their rescuers saw sights normally seen only by the military in wartime.
When I did my own tour of the boros today, I tried to imagine how exactly a president tours a disaster area.
A nuclear-armed Iran would be a disaster for international stability and the non-proliferation regime.
Last year was a disaster as the industrial units suffered losses of billions of rupees due to an eight-hour daily load-shedding and low voltage problem.
Will it be again blamed when there would be severe environmental disaster after watercourse of river Brahmaputra will be diverted to irrigate Indian barren land?
The origins of the new disaster were rooted in Menem's years.
The narrative of contemporary history heaps one appalling disaster upon another as the world crawls towards hostilities, bloodbaths, and natural disasters.
With its amazing array of talents and personalities, this film could serve as a sort of template for the later star-laden blockbuster disaster films.
Who knew all we needed to fix politics was a natural disaster of epic proportions?
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Researchers in Switzerland recently developed a concept to use a swarm of UAVs as a local communication network for emergency workers in disaster areas.
I've been having a bit of a laugh with a few of the regulars at the pub about who I'm going to let in if there's a disaster and who is out on their ear.
The subsequent disaster for the trains and passengers of the old BritRail are well documented but Loach cuts deeper into what happened to rail workers.
Hundreds of trekkers were on the popular Annapurna Circuit in the Mustang area of Nepal when disaster struck last week.
At the top is the federal response to the deepwater Horizon drilling disaster and the subsequent oil spill.
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.
The mind-numbing natural disaster which has killed thousands and blighted the lives of millions in South Asia will not fade from our consciousness for some time yet.
The Western literary tradition is indebted to the disaster caused by a bad guest.
The sludge disaster was the nation's worst-ever black water spill.
However, disaster was averted with the arrival of the rescue boat, which managed to get a line on board the stricken vessel and was able to tow it to safety.
He has sprinted toward turmoil in war zones, jungles, and disaster areas from Iraq to Peru.
But their attempts to outrun his Secret Service detail end in disaster when Finn hits a woman and flees the scene.
After every disaster or horrible murder there is a rush of sick jokes.
Such stylistic whimsy hardly seems appropriate to the solemn themes of apocalyptic war and nuclear disaster which consequently lose much of their weight and urgency.
Shouldn't he be conjuring up mana to help with the disaster relief effort?
Still, given the disaster her earlier attempts at contrition were, this appearance seems to have done wonders for her.
In the days since tsunami struck, newspaper reportage suggests a growing acknowledgement that disaster affects different groups of people differently.
Two days after the attack, Urban Search and Rescue crews from Montgomery County, Virginia worked to clear debris and strengthen temporary shoring at the disaster site.
For these people the disaster over the Mojave Desert is a sobering wake-up call.
Once he learned of the disaster that had struck his carriers, Admiral Yamamoto, still hundreds of miles to the west with the main battlegroup, reversed course.
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On Giglio, the remnants of the disaster will never go away even after the Concordia is towed from its shores.
But in no way does the joke make fun of the disaster or the people killed.
And there is a miniscule chance that it could save the lives of children in a few very specific disaster scenarios.
Whether the facts will be enough to avert disaster will hinge largely on whether Boehner can bring himself to accept them.
He emerged as a lightning rod for criticism after appearing unaware of the extent of the humanitarian disaster that unfolded after the hurricane hit.
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.
The human tragedy of the natural disaster in this particular part of Italy is twofold.
More than once he'd predicted a storm, rain or otherwise, because his trick knee was acting up or another kind of disaster because his elbows were aching.
The fete Worse Than Death was an organizational disaster and a massive success.
We request everybody outside of the disaster area to refrain from hoarding gasoline, light diesel, and heavy fuel oil.
It's as if we wait for another rail tragedy to act as confirmation of our worst fears, and when one happens we rewrite history to present it as a disaster in the making.
The disaster helped prove the pro-life contention that nothing is more vital and basic to human beings than loving and being loved by one's kith and kin.
The authorities of trouble-torn Lincoln Cathedral have been accused by a member of the congregation of putting the ancient minster on a disaster course.
In Walhalla, an old gold-mining town in a narrow valley, disaster struck on the Tuesday night as an avalanche of water, rocks, silt and logs swept down over the town.
Schettino is on trial for multiple manslaughter, causing a maritime disaster and abandoning ship.
So who exactly was responsible for the disaster that led to the shuttering of the newspaper?
You only have to see a film such as Sunrise to realise why many people considered the coming of sound as a disaster and why early talkies were crude and ungainly.
For example, is the backup for disaster recovery or for mining raw data?
After what remains the largest disaster in Toledo history, the city installed sirens.
For Hayek, the schemes of fallible human beings are more likely to end in disaster than to solve any problems.
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Companies realized, when faced with the millennium bug, that disaster preparedness, security and risk management were fundamental to the survival of corporations.
Though the disaster could have been retrieved, it brought France and Spain into the conflict and placed in jeopardy Britain's command of the seas.
The move augurs disaster for pastoralism in the sub-continent, it is a mode of violence against the lives and livelihoods of several thousand rural households.
If I am a disaster at any stage, leading the party will be pie in the sky.
If so, a disaster would happen as Gaddafi wreaks revenge on his own people.
He produced a play about the Persian slaughter of the Milesians, a disaster that devastated the Athenians who were deeply partisan to the Milesian cause.
Everyone knew that that reality could easily, indeed would likely, devolve into the sectarian disaster we see now.
This is the largest natural disaster that our nation has ever faced.
The might-have-beens preoccupy us as a random natural disaster never can.
They can only watch it end in the disaster which appears so close at hand.
A meaningful targeted scheme of financial aid to purchase concentrate feed is needed to avoid disaster over the coming winter and spring months, it has been claimed.
Activists are warning our farmers a similar disaster could happen to them.
Russia's submarines are in such a poor state of repair that they seldom venture far from port, the Kursk disaster reinforcing fears about the reliability of the Russian fleet.
Any network can find and polish a one-off hottie to fight back tears at the disaster site du jour.
One disaster follows another on this, the worst day of Bruce Nolan's life, as he's fired from the station, beaten up by a gang of toughs, who then vandalise his car.
But the net effect for the company was still disaster and ruin.
It was only a few short moments before touchdown that disaster struck.
Leaving 2013 nothing was more disappointing than the drippy, sad, and woefully unfunny disaster Wilson served us, Super Fun Night.
It's impossible to overstate the extent of the disaster this represents for the Middle East as a region.
The 1986 Chernobyl disaster is widely considered to be the greatest nuclear catastrophe in world history.
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Hadn't the whole Eyghon disaster taught the little wally anything?
Geological experts said the disaster was due to natural causes.
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!
The two agencies also will compile information on ways in which arts organizations have aided disaster victims, from providing art therapy to hosting fund-raisers.
But the sort of sequential nature, the fact that you have one natural disaster followed by another, it can have a pretty significant psychological impact.
The state and national governments have treated the current heat wave as just another natural disaster and the hundreds of deaths as regrettable, but unpreventable.
Both Know-Nothings and Democrats exaggerated the events in Kansas and predicted disaster if the other party were to be entrusted with protecting slavery.
Heretofore my worst disaster was a 3.5 inch disk going wonky and eating a chapter of my dissertation so my number was just up for a hard drive failure.
One hopes we will never have to repeat such a careless cruise ship disaster to find out.
Floods that swept the South Russian region of Krasnodar over the weekend are the latest disaster to befall the country.
We had to write a story about a natural disaster for creative writing.
And now we apparently have another major air disaster requiring the familiar saga of pursuing the black box wherever it lies.
If someone were to ask me what disaster this was that had befallen my life, I might ask if they wanted the story or the truth.
The most frivolous disaster which could befall himself would occasion a more real disturbance.
This disaster is so big that we need all the help from Rotarian friends from anywhere to buy medicine, sheets, food, ice, and other medical necessities.
The idea that the growing number of clubs standing on football's equivalent of death row are somehow the unfortunate victims of a natural disaster does not bear scrutiny.
From local area networks to distributed computing platforms, and now the Internet and intranets, the level of exposure has increased while disaster preparation has decreased.
We need a Special Select Committee on Benghazi to ascertain these facts and ensure that such a disaster never occurs again.
And black fury toward cops today is fueled by historic economic disparities and by the economic disaster of the past decade plus.
And his argument that we are heading to certain fiscal disaster is quite calmly and dispassionately made.
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The national media, eager to break another disaster story, have been carrying images that make York appear marooned to all except yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur.
The media also vividly portrayed the emotional sequel of the disaster reiterating the importance of emotional support and psychological interventions.
With a looming humanitarian disaster in Libya, Western nations are wringing their hands over what to do.
For one mother, Jayne Thomas of Sutton Coldfield, England, the Allegra disaster is like a recurring nightmare.
Husks of homes, some of them choked in jungular vines, furnish a tropical Pompeii for viewers on the disaster bus tours.
The expedition ended in disaster and Sebastian's disappearance at the Battle of the Three Kings.
The effects of a Chernobyl disaster in my community would probably be barely noticeable.
Over 3,000 people were lost when the converted troopship Lancastria was sunk in June 1940, the greatest maritime disaster in Britain's history.
The social and economic problems created by the disaster were overwhelming.
Well, it didn't take long for the Bush bashers to blame the president for all the ills of the New Orleans disaster relief effort.
However pessimistic their predictions, most scientists and scholars who warn of impending disaster are really acting from antidystopian motives.
Much of the central Gulf Coast was declared a disaster area after hurricane Katrina.
Yet the wholly enlightened earth radiates under the sign of disaster triumphant.
On a global scale, this disaster led to the creation of an Irish diaspora that numbers fifteen times the current population of the island.
The Llandow air disaster was, at the time, the world's worst aviation disaster.
After the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, they arrived immediately at some of the worst disaster sites to help retrieve and bury the dead.
Also among the disaster relief capabilities is the Red Shield Defence Services, often called the SallyMan for short.
Legend maintains that should the ravens ever leave the Tower, the White Tower will fall and disaster will befall the kingdom.
In 1721, the economic disaster of the South Sea Bubble allowed Walpole to rise to the pinnacle of government.
As the siren screamed it added to the mee-maws, sirens and cacophony of emergency vehicles rushing to the Hyde Park disaster site.
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The second was the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, where 96 Liverpool supporters died in a crush against perimeter fencing.
After the Hillsborough disaster there was a government review of stadium safety.
The report ruled that the main reason for the disaster was overcrowding due to a failure of police control.
The government declared the area a disaster zone and took control from local authorities.
Twins from all the patterns of twinship experienced this emotional disaster as young adults or in their midlives.
Tearfund primarily focuses on supporting those in poverty and providing disaster relief, especially for disadvantaged communities.
He did not wish to bear Queensberry's insults, but he knew to confront him could lead to disaster were his liaisons disclosed publicly.
This ended in disaster when Armagnac partisans assassinated John the Fearless during a meeting under Charles's guarantee of protection.
However, despite these welcome reinforcements, disaster would soon overtake Stewart and his Scottish army.
In 1513, James invaded England to honour his commitment to the Auld Alliance, only to meet death and disaster at the Battle of Flodden.
Three other portents of disaster were described by Paolo Giovio in 1549 and repeated in John Polemon's 1578 account of the battle.
The disaster at Philiphaugh was largely due to the Royalists' own disunity and the return of the main Covenanter armies from England.
The disaster of the 1715 Yamasee War threatened the colony's viability and set off a decade of political turmoil.
Nicholine Rome failed to reach completion, as one disaster followed another. Nicholas managed to realize only a fragment of what he planned.
Haig felt that they would take credit for Foch's victory but might dismiss him if disaster befell the British forces.
Later, Zeebrugge's harbour was the scene of disaster when in 1987 the MS Herald of Free Enterprise passenger ferry capsized killing 193 people.
The most notorious form of colliery disaster was the gas explosion, caused by either a buildup of methane gas or coal dust.
The worst single incident in the Rhondda was the 1867 Ferndale disaster in which an explosion saw the loss of 178 lives.
The aftermath of the disaster is described by Charles Dickens in The Uncommercial Traveller.
The Sea Empress disaster occurred in Britain's only coastal national park and in one of only three UK marine nature reserves.
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In late 1847 the Dee bridge disaster occurred when a bridge span collapsed as a train passed over the River Dee by the Roodee.
The most notorious aviation disaster in Wales occurred in Glamorgan in 1950, when a privately hired Avro Tudor crashed at Llandow Aerodrome.
This disaster gave new impetus to an existing campaign for a harbour to be constructed near Dublin.
The attack was a public relations disaster for France after it was quickly exposed by the New Zealand police.
Such was the outcome of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Ukraine.
As the disaster struck on a Saturday night, many government and emergency offices in the affected area were not staffed.
Politically, the disaster prompted discussions in the Netherlands concerning the protection and strengthening of the dykes.
The disaster marked the rise of Amsterdam on the southwestern end of the bay, since seagoing traffic of the Baltic trade could now visit.
However, the raid might have led to disaster had the additional forces under Beatty not been sent by Admiral John Jellicoe at the last minute.
Techniques for incorporating nourishment projects into flood insurance costs and disaster assistance remain controversial.
Beginning of the campaign turned into a strategic disaster for Soviets whose Southern flank was nearly destroyed.
No success rendered him overweening and no disaster was ever known to stagger his firmness.
When he discovered that disaster had befallen his division, he organised the forces to defend the town as best he could.
The morning of Saturday 24 October brought disaster for the German headquarters.
The ARC already had great disaster relief mission experience extending back to its foundation.
In 2004, the IFRC began its largest mission to date after the tsunami disaster in South Asia.
It has the 15th highest natural disaster risk as measured in the 2013 World Risk Index.
Their replacement by cropland could precipitate a disaster that is global in scale.
Rats have been studied for possible use in hazardous situations such as in disaster zones.
The live food fish trade has been implicated as a driver of decline due to the use of cyanide and disaster for peoples living in the tropics.
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Henry's only legitimate son and heir, William Adelin, drowned in the White Ship disaster of 1120, throwing the royal succession into doubt.
The disaster left Henry with no legitimate son, his various nephews now the closest male heirs.
Some have argued that the disaster was in fact caused more by an error in latitude than in longitude.
The disaster is featured at the start of the 2000 television drama Longitude, which is based on the book of the same name.
With nearly 2,000 sailors lost that night, the Scilly naval disaster was recorded as one of the greatest maritime disasters in British history.
It has been labelled a public relations disaster by leading New Zealand PR firms and Consumer advocate groups.
When news of the Braddock disaster reached Britain it caused a massive public outcry over the government's poor military preparation.
News of this disaster sent a fresh wave of panic around the British colonies, and the entire militia of New England was mobilised overnight.
An additional natural disaster was the Rhine rift earthquake of 1356, one of Europe's worst which made ruins of Basel.
This disaster was the start of the Third Century Crisis of the Roman empire, a period of military and economic chaos.
Also, no source mentions the emperor being near the front when the disaster occurred, whereas by 170 Marcus Aurelius had settled there.
The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster caused nuclear fallout in the sensitive Arctic ecosystems and poisoned fish, meat and berries.
Motorsport racecourses and events were banned in Switzerland following the 1955 Le Mans disaster with exception to events such as Hillclimbing.
When the king heard of this disaster he decided not to delay, but made haste to gather an army, and marched into Saxony.
The invasion was a disaster for the Portuguese, with their entire army wiped out by Kandyan guerilla warfare.
By 1896, the war had become a total disaster for the Italians and Ethiopia was able to retain its independence.
He overruled his secretaries by ordering that grain should be sent immediately to relieve disaster areas.
A common use is in disaster films, where the protagonists must avoid the effects of the plague, for example zombies.
However, the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 put an end to transatlantic Zeppelin flights.
Maastricht was a major disaster for the Protestant cause and the Dutch began to turn on William of Orange.

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