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man-made disaster

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meanings of man-madeand disaster


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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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Examples of man-made disaster


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It was not a natural disaster; it was a man-madedisaster.
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The hungry people who are the casualties of conflict are a man-madedisaster.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
High inflation is a man-madedisaster like southern beer and nylon shirts.
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It is not lighthearted use of language to describe that as a man-madedisaster.
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What are the chances of a man-madedisaster?
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This was not a naturally-occurring whirlpool, but a man-madedisaster caused 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 a man-madedisaster such 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 a man-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 and man-madedisaster.
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Unfortunately, natural or man-made disasters are becoming increasingly frequent and devastating.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Unfortunately, there will be more and more natural and man-made disasters.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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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