| 词汇 | example_english_disaster |
| 释义 | Examples of disasterThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Thus, drought, one of the greatest natural disasters intermittently confronting the nation, was blamed on political conflicts within the royal family. They are predictive in that one could use them with hypothetical disasters to predict what the most likely policy and political outcomes will be. The states ensured that their peoples were able to regain the property that they regularly lost to natural disasters and to foreign invasion. Since the early 1970s, the region seems to have been widely beset by civil wars, political upheavals, famines and other natural disasters. Historical studies of major natural disasters offer invaluable insights into a society by revealing long-term themes and continuities. A contemporary chronicler opined (in the annal for 1011) that 'all those disasters befell us through bad policy (unraeligdas)'. Other scholars have concentrated on individuals or local efforts with a particular emphasis on ballooning firsts or ballooning disasters. Catastrophic disasters violate expectations about an efficient and forceful government response and damage agency reputations. Before the 1980s, at least, citizens looked to states and localities if they looked to government at all for help with disasters. Will we strive to salvage the disaster's 'event-ness', or work to make it 'process-like'? The research agenda is not to look for impending disasters or catastrophes lurking around the corner. The computer itself was about to be indicted for the disasters. An extreme example of categorizing landscapes based on health is cities, which are enormously expensive ecological disasters. Major disasters, for example, compromise many interdependent systems simultaneously, often including individual lives, social systems, ecological systems, communication systems, and computer systems. The study also depicts the clinical disasters that could follow the enthusiastic pursuit of an untried, fashionable idea, notably faradism. To apply this table, let us consider three hypothetical disasters: an airplane crash, a refinery explosion, and a product-tampering incident. The corporation has separate accounts for infrastructure development, management structural improvement, general facilities, management support and stabilization, and agricultural disasters. In addition to self-introductions, topics were negotiated with the teacher/facilitators and included music, cultural events and natural disasters. Environmental disasters or windfalls beyond a certain time horizon are washed out of consideration by discounting. The political theory was based on the belief that wealth could be lost because of natural disasters and because of invasions by other states. Any growth theory we teach our graduate students, and our undergraduates for that matter, must explain growth disasters as well as growth miracles. Why were federal preparedness agencies unable to preserve their dual missions of preparation for and response to natural disasters? One of the rules an ideal code would contain is a rule requiring agents to prevent disasters when they can. In this case, the emergency management profession provided expertise about what should be done to prepare for and respond to disasters. Then, international disasters and the growth of separatist movements have increased the numbers of refugees and asylum seekers. There has been a considerably higher selective pressure to train the skills needed in perceiving and avoiding the latter types of dangers than natural disasters. The tradition, while it may be continuous in some sense, is one that has been repeatedly reconstituted after natural and humanly-instigated disasters. However, the most significant challenges to humankind are chronic and complex humanitarian disasters characterized by structural inequalities, poverty, and state and intergroup violence. They are still far more likely to die in other disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes. Eruptions of the multimammate rat population represent direct disasters for the subsistence farmers involved, but may also have national and even international political consequences. Events during the period of disasters caused people to change the ways that they inhabited and thought about their physical environment. Natural disasters associated with flooding, have been related to an increase in the occurrence of leptospirosis in humans [10, 11]. Each factor represents a continuum of attributes that make some disasters more easily managed than others are. Stressors and enablers include natural or man made disasters such as floods, hurricanes, oil spills, explosions, and others. In response, a literature on crisis management has developed that seeks to help business managers address these disasters. The model can be tweaked any number of ways to replicate lesser outcomes or disasters. Changes to the natural environment stem from climate change resulting from natural disasters, in-uences of pollution and agrochemical usage upon the production of gases. While these shows focus primarily on such topics as celebrity gossip, scandal, crime, and natural disasters, when foreign crises emerge, they nearly always cover them. Large disasters always received federal aid, but political interests determined whether smaller ones would receive federal dollars or have states make do on their own. He allocated resources toward programs that could be used for many kinds of disasters rather than narrowly-tailored specialties. In practice, however, all hazards emphasized natural disasters over deliberate man-made ones. Our present instruments prejudge what is salient for community respondents who experience traumatic events, be they individual traumas or community-wide disasters. Other projects included research into: robots that can operate in swarms to tackle environmental disasters. After the ®re, the bakufu undertook urban improvement plans designed to prevent similar disasters. Various kinds of hunger crises caused by natural disasters such as drought, invasions of locusts, blight and other pests and epidemics can be categorized. Interpreting the effects of the disasters requires careful analysis of many different sources and the translation of both temporal and spatial concepts in oral tradition. Indeed, as soon as the disasters were over people returned to dispersed patterns of settlement in descent rather than age-set-based groupings. What she admired was the faith of those who could withstand real disasters. Our central argument is that watershed-scale conservation initiatives are necessary to reduce the risk of natural disasters caused by hurricane-induced landslides. Then there are natural disasters and diseases, fighting against which is seen as quite acceptable. The complexity of drought does make it different from other natural disasters. We are poised on the edge of the precipice of either great discoveries or major disasters. In combat and natural disasters (fires, earthquakes, etc.), witnesses are far more likely to suffer intrusive reminiscences the closer they were to the actual dangers. There were no famines or other major disasters, and the population remained stable at about 300. In its early days xenotransplantation was done with very little oversight - and a very visible string of medical disasters. Following acoustic disasters of this kind in a number of award-winning buildings, acoustic comfort in 'non-acoustic' spaces is receiving increasing attention. In the past four years, natural disasters have claimed more than 25 0000 lives and cost of the order of $1 billion per week. The latter factor adds enough to generate the sufficient conditions for disasters like the junta's decision to remain and fight for the islands. Displacement refers to persons who have been obliged to leave their homes because of armed conflict, human rights violations, or natural or human-made disasters. Thus, earthquakes and hurricanes are similar sorts of events - natural disasters - as are oil spills and nuclear accidents, both environmentally damaging industrial accidents. People talked about a time of crisis and some even compared these transformations to natural disasters such as avalanches. Although the term was not yet in vogue, the earliest emergency preparedness agencies were created with an all hazards approach to disasters in mind. When big events are less prominent, participants in policy making concentrate on regulatory or programmatic issues, presumably to prevent or mitigate disasters, but make fewer references to specific events. Liberal egalitarians and utilitarians might have us respond to victims of natural disasters, but could view this as falling under the larger welfare responsibilities of the state. Rather than analyse natural disasters, however, most either just recorded specifics associated with a particular calamity or attempted to interpret them within a religious/cosmological framework. The authors maintain that [b]ecause of their commitment to care for the sick and injured, individual physicians have an obligation to provide urgent medical care during disasters. Despite being relatively safe, people still die every day owing to jealous lovers, natural disasters, and many other causes which have been presumably unchanged for millennia. Other countries have documented similar disasters. Paradoxically, it is also worth noting that these changes not only allowed for survival, but also prepared the way for prosperity in the years following the disasters. The newly developed all hazards, all phases concept carried a normative force that helped resources target high probability natural disasters rather than low probability security disasters. Because they contend that critical decisions under these circumstances should not be made on a case-by-case basis, these authors suggest an algorithm to use in planning for such disasters. Moreover, individual physicians should take appropriate advance measures to ensure their ability to provide medical services at the time of disasters, including the acquisition and maintenance of relevant knowledge. An ecological perspective on resilience, adaptive capacity and natural disasters. In fact, he stressed the right to work and the state's obligation to provide work for the citizen and welfare in the event of natural disasters. Natural disasters and mental health : theory, assessment, and intervention. Towards an understanding of the psychological impact of natural disasters : an application of the conservation resources stress model. We are particularly interested in the politics of these disasters - that is, how the media, interest groups, governmental officials, and other actors react to these events in the political arena. The latter may not generate any duties of repair under corrective justice, though libertarians might urge members of the community to extend charity to victims of natural disasters. Several factors, including natural disasters, combined to erode the fortunes of the traditional families and newcomers began to dominate economic activities and honorary posts in the city. Focusing on production taxes, it is easy to see how output taxes have different implications from input or enterprise taxes for how disasters affect the after-tax incomes of taxpayers. Given the average life span and the numerous plagues and disasters that regularly struck pre-modern urban populations, entire families might easily disappear within a few generations. Other factors such as the effects of natural disasters, changes in the productivity of human capital, or high inflation and indebtedness also affect the sustainability of economic growth. The need for robots that are more 'intelligent' remains and their use in applications that range from domestic and industrial to defence and civil disasters is ever present. State and local officials began to invest in planning for how to respond to (if not yet mitigate) disasters ranging from hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes to chemical spills. An interdisciplinary perspective on disasters and stress : the promise of an ecological framework. There have been many local environmental disasters that matter a great deal to the people affected. Besides environmental degradation, also indicated as push factors are natural disasters and wars. They merely cite such modern risks as the environmental disasters that we might bring on ourselves. If there are particular things that every responsible physician should know in order to effectively respond during disasters, then continuing in ignorance is culpable. Because of their commitment to care for the sick and injured, individual physicians have an obligation to provide urgent medical care during disasters. Clients often discovered disasters affecting share prices of stocks too late. We only discriminate between our mediated experiences by a conscious effort, finding ourselves watching comedy, beauty contests and international disasters from the same chair. Such a community spirit is also reinforced through the shared misfortune of mining disasters. The catalogue of disasters affecting travel and sports industries has been mirrored by a steady rise in the accident rate in work places. The core issues are covered, from vulnerability to natural disasters to the diversity of the national experiences and cultures. Such can be the case with drugs, immigration, health matters, natural disasters, international crime and a host of other broad security matters. While bad weather, poor ice, and sledging problems occurred, he was able to deal with them without suffering major disasters. Natural disasters such as earthquakes affect large numbers of people. A growing epidemiological literature has addressed psychiatric morbidities associated with exposure to major disasters. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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