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Simple sentences
This plan, while looking great on paper, turned out to be a disaster.
A disaster is taking place in front of our eyes.
Tom has built up a shelter under his house in case of some disaster.
Tom could have caused a disaster due to his carelessness.
That's a recipe for disaster.
The failure was detected in time, thereby a disaster was prevented.
If he had stayed at home that day, he would not have met with disaster.
It sounds as if he were to blame for the disaster.
The earthquake brought about disaster.
The fire which caused the disaster broke out on the second floor of the hospital.
The flood was the greatest disaster they had ever had.
Seldom have human beings experienced such a disaster.
Arianna, you're a disaster!
The flood caused a disaster in their community.
We're heading for disaster.
The cabinet asked the army to send a disaster relief mission to Okinawa.
The government asked the army to send a disaster relief mission to Okinawa.
Since a disaster occurred, few passengers survived.
If that accident had happened in a city, it would have caused a disaster.
It's an ecological disaster.
Slight inattention can cause a great disaster.
If the hay caught fire, it would be a real disaster.
We provide for disaster.
He narrowly escaped the disaster.
The further we are from one disaster, the closer we are to the next.
Movie subtitles
This place is a total disaster.
Without a horse, a disaster.
Disaster?
Yes, and for Octavian, complete disaster.
I must go to that meeting or it'll all end in disaster.
This isn't the first time you've come between me and disaster.
The paper fortunes built up over the past few years crumble into nothing before this disaster which is to touch every man, woman and child in America.
First to feel the effects of the economic disaster which sweeps the country are the nightclubs, the speakeasies, and the bootleggers who serve them.
Else it will end with a disaster.
Yes, Charley, it will end with disaster.
It's now eight months since your government declared war eight months of progressive disaster for the enemies of the German Reich.
Your Honour, if this man is to go on as prosecutor. the strange part which he himself has played in this disaster cannot be ignored.
Isn't that why they're both hopelessly entangled in this disaster?
Do you want to wait for disaster to strike at us again? I'll tell you what we ought to do.
It was the filing of the signal shots in the mess hall that saved us from a disaster of cataclysmic dimensions.
A disaster, gentlemen. A blooming disaster.
He's a seagoing disaster.
We've been hit by catastrophe, by disaster.
But he turns disaster into a house speciality.
You could also call it a triumphant disaster.
If I go like this, they'll see me as a disaster.
But there are those here at court, powerful enemies who would love to see you gone from me and who would stop at nothing to trick you into disaster.
I've always done what you wanted, and it's always turned out a disaster.
Holmes, if anything has happened to Tobel, if his invention falls into the hands of Germany, it will be a major disaster for England.
Seriously, this is a disaster.
What disaster, this war!
It is the worst disaster since Titanic.
What a disaster! - What is it?
Should a disaster occur during the night.
She prayed for disaster to come to the Van Ryns. and she swore that when it came, she'd always be here to sing and play.
So disaster to the wench who did wrong by our Johnny.
Disaster to the wench.
Anyone as superstitious as Gilda, out loud, asking for disaster.
The female section of our Party is organizing a charity distribution for disaster victims in the slums.
He dreams of the next disaster.
You brought this disaster on yourself!
Outside our harbor are strong currents and disaster. You've seen that.
News and current affairs
So how will the world - first and foremost, the main nuclear powers - react to the Fukushima disaster?
It was Japan, the high-tech country par excellence (not the latter-day Soviet Union) that proved unable to take adequate precautions to avert disaster in four reactor blocks.
Though this is partially offset by foreign-exchange reserves, Japan now faces massive disaster-relief costs - and this on top of its depressing demographic trends.
So many economies are vulnerable to natural disasters - earthquakes, floods, typhoons, hurricanes, tsunamis - that adding a man-made disaster is all the more tragic.
Back then, Ukraine became the focus of global attention, but Ukrainians learned of the disaster much later than the rest of the world.
Dealing with the aftermath of the disaster will remain a financial burden even with the plant closed.
Cooperation between Ukraine and the West, without a disaster to concentrate everyone's minds, will benefit all concerned.
As a result, the probability of a eurozone disaster is rising.
First, the global significance of US President Barack Obama's reelection is clear: the world has escaped a disaster for international cooperation.
Basle II is dead - at least until memories of the current disaster fade.
Europe would be ill-advised to become mesmerized by this approaching disaster.
America reels from one shooting disaster to the next, and on nearly every occasion, politicians dutifully declare their continued devotion to unregulated gun ownership.
All of this amounted to a human and economic disaster in the making.
Interestingly, contemporary news accounts reveal little evidence of public anger at economists after disaster struck in 1929.
The Japanese media's coverage of the visit was overwhelmingly negative, and it was remembered as a public-relations disaster.
Yes, Japan will rebuild, which will undoubtedly spur some type of recovery in its disaster-battered economy.
Not the bankers and financiers who created the disaster.
The big losers from this economic disaster are workers in the advanced countries that bought into the laissez-faire flexibility of American-style capitalism.
The immediate political response to the Japanese disaster will be to make small re-adjustments among known energy sources, including wind and solar.
The environmental disaster destroying seaside communities around the Gulf of Mexico and killing off marine life is a globally important tragedy.
Japan, for example, is in the grip of a growth crisis and public finance disaster - not the usual companions of an appreciating currency.
In particular, the fact that investment banks, which were propelled into riskier activities by these policy changes, were entirely outside the regulatory net was a recipe for disaster.