Sentences with phrase «periods of national disaster»

They clustered round the two critical periods of national disaster, when first the northern kingdoms of Israel was swallowed up by Assyria in 721 BC.

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After 900 hours of hearings and 1100 interviews over a six - month period, the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission — chaired by Kiyoshi Kurokawa, an academic fellow at Tokyo's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies — said that the accident was «a profoundly man - made disaster that could and should have been foreseen and prevented».
During his tenure there, he guided the organization into becoming a national resource for disaster and puppy mill rescues as well as leading a large, urban, homeless animal rehabilitation and adoption center through a period of unprecedented growth.
McCollum last year stepped forward with a bill to create national natural disaster insurance and was a vocal supporter of efforts to shorten the tax depreciation period for tenant leasehold improvements, both NAR priorities.
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