humanitarian disaster
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhumanitariananddisaster
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humanitarian
adjective
noun[C]
uk/hjuːˌmæn.ɪˈteə.ri.ən/us/hjuːˌmæn.ɪˈter.i.ən/
(a person who is) involved in or connected with improving people's lives and ...
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disaster
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈzɑː.stər/us/dɪˈzæs.tɚ/
(an event that results in) great harm, damage, or death, or ...
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(Definition ofhumanitariananddisasterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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What followed was more violence and the country slid into chaos, anarchy, and ahumanitariandisasterof huge proportions.
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The recent earthquake just worsened what already was ahumanitariandisaster.
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It has done a lot upstream to prevent thehumanitariandisasterwe are witnessing today.
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It is bordering on ahumanitariandisasterand it requires immediate action.
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We recently witnessed a hugehumanitariandisasterbrought about by a supposedly humanitarian intervention.
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The association agreement must be brought onto the table and sanctions considered, or we will be treating the symptoms of ahumanitariandisasterforever more.
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All the ingredients for an enormoushumanitariandisasterare present.
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Does she agree that if the closure policy is not stopped, we will have a realhumanitariandisasterin the west bank?
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However, we have had a hugehumanitariandisasterand it is continuing.
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There is a long track record of engagement with and concern for people overseas, of support for development and inhumanitariandisasterrelief.
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This is ahumanitariandisasterin the making.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Firstly, there is every possibility that a genuinehumanitariandisasterwill take place there over the next few months.
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Only a global agreement has any chance of averting ahumanitariandisasterin the country.
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We need to redouble international humanitarian efforts in order to stop a truehumanitariandisaster.
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That is a humanitarian task to help cope with ahumanitariandisasterwhich will get worse.
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I pay tribute to all those who have worked to relieve the worst consequences ofhumanitariandisaster.
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Military action itself will leave a legacy of destruction and deprivation on top of the existinghumanitariandisaster.
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After all, one of the main reasons for going to war—we are talking, unambiguously, about war—was to prevent a hugehumanitariandisaster.
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