Collocations withdisaster
These are words often used in combination withdisaster.
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absolute disaster
So too would cheerfulness and patience in the face of absolute disaster.
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brink of disaster
As a woman of questionable morals, she seemed to stand by as her family teetered on the brink of disaster.
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climatic disaster
This will mean that we fail to achieve our climate policy objectives and result in a climatic disaster.
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complete disaster
Result: the date is a complete disaster.
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disaster aid
We are trying here to coordinate disaster aid as sensibly as possible.
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disaster assistance
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, at least, people wanted and eventually demanded disaster assistance from government.
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disaster fund
One way would be to provide funds from the supplementary budget or from the disaster fund which has already been discussed here today.
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disaster plan
The court of inquiry recommended that every area where there is a major industrial hazard should have a disaster plan.
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disaster preparedness
Principles of using what you already use frequently and investing in resources that have multiple uses are important concepts in disaster preparedness.
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disaster prevention
We also need to invest substantial sums to establish long-term action aimed at implementing a disaster prevention strategy.
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disaster relief
When the (very loosely defined) hurricane policy community is active, discussion centers on the adequacy of federal disaster relief efforts.
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disaster response
In the same vein, medical institutions should not be called upon to bear an undue share of the expense for disaster response.
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disaster scenario
He is painting a disaster scenario while ignoring those ports that have already privatised.
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disaster zone
Clearly, for many who entered the disaster zone either physically or metaphorically, there were important things at stake in this reportage.
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ecological disaster
The wide use of unshaded fixed glass brought both of these beautiful buildings close to ecological disaster.
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economic disaster
No matter how hard women worked, economic disaster always threatened.
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environmental disaster
Thus, the advent of the large estate was economically undesirable and its impact on tropical forests has been an environmental disaster.
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ferry disaster
I am only too well aware of the personal grief involved in such a tragedy as the recent ferry disaster.
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financial disaster
For a family in a poor country, disease is a financial disaster.
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future disaster
Then we can have a feedback into preparedness, prevention and response in the case of any future disaster.
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global disaster
Here is a chance for us to anticipate and perhaps prevent what could be a global disaster.
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greatest disaster
In his view the authorities seem to have specifically planned the greatest disaster our country has ever seen.
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humanitarian disaster
What followed was more violence and the country slid into chaos, anarchy, and a humanitarian disaster of huge proportions.
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impending disaster
Facial expression, heart rate, etc. can provide a great deal of information and a warning that action needs to be taken perhaps to avert an impending disaster.
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large-scale disaster
When large-scale disaster strikes, physicians individually and collectively should use their knowledge and skills to address medical needs.
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major disaster
The distorting effect of a major disaster on mortality rates is shown in the data for 1859-63.
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man-made disaster
It was not a natural disaster; it was a man-made disaster.
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maritime disaster
It was not the first of its kind, nor, sadly, was it the last maritime disaster of its kind.
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mine disaster
It is very easy to heat the air and to be eloquent, or at any rate rhetorical, immediately after a mine disaster.
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mining disaster
I would not agree with an analogy drawn between what happens in a mining disaster and what happens in a nuclear disaster.
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near disaster
For many families struggling to buy their homes increases of that sort represent near disaster.
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nuclear disaster
Just when the possibility of space exploration is there, it's blocked, often by a nuclear disaster.
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potential disaster
Months of planning and preliminary work set the stage for an installation based primarily on a low-tech, makeshift design, reeking of potential disaster (in all good ways).
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terrible disaster
Costs were awarded against her and the whole episode was a terrible disaster.
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total disaster
It has been a total disaster for agriculture!
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unmitigated disaster
Apart for some astonishingly deft conducting, the evening was an unmitigated disaster, the applause mere politeness.
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utter disaster
But in economic terms it would be an utter disaster for my constituency.
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