man-made disaster
collocation in Englishmeaningsofman-madeanddisaster
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man-made
adjective
uk/ˌmænˈmeɪd/us/ˌmænˈmeɪd/
artificial rather ...
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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 ofman-madeanddisasterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It was not a natural disaster; it was aman-madedisaster.
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The hungry people who are the casualties of conflict are aman-madedisaster.
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High inflation is aman-madedisasterlike southern beer and nylon shirts.
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It is not lighthearted use of language to describe that as aman-madedisaster.
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What are the chances of aman-madedisaster?
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This was not a naturally-occurring whirlpool, but aman-madedisastercaused by breaking through the roof of a salt mine.
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It is usually related to emergency response (also called humanitarian response) whether in the case of a natural disaster or aman-madedisastersuch as war or other armed conflict.
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Compared to earthquakes, where the event intensity can be quantitatively evaluated, the level of severity of aman-madedisaster, such as a nuclear accident, is more subject to interpretation.
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The coverage overlap, combined with use of satellite communications, can make paging systems more reliable than terrestrial based cellular networks in some cases, including during natural andman-madedisaster.
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Unfortunately, natural or man-made disasters are becoming increasingly frequent and devastating.
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He says that, perhaps later, the proposal can be extended to cover man-made disasters.
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Occasionally, there are man-made disasters where pre-planning can help.
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Natural and man-made disasters always require a very rapid response.
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Secondly, there has been the most unusual coincidence of both natural and man-made disasters over the past few years —hurricanes, earthquakes, oil spillages and fires.
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We try to provide well-targeted emergency aid to relieve the immediate plight of those suffering from natural or man-made disasters.
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In particular, the summit failed to clearly denounce and clarify the most crucial overriding causes of hunger, which are bad governance and man-made disasters.
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Unfortunately, there will be more and more natural and man-made disasters.
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As if being abysmally poor was not enough of a tragedy, some of them suffer from natural disasters as well as man-made disasters.
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