Sentences with phrase «time of the national disaster»

Flood defence spending at the time of the national disaster was # 500 million, although this figure had been cut by # 15 million from 2006.

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The USA taxpayers continue to be the largest supporter (money, time and personnel) of national disasters without imposing religious advertising on the recipients.

Europe's largest national geophysical research organization, INGV provides 24 - hour seismic surveillance and real - time volcanic monitoring via data centers in Rome, Naples, and Catania, working with the country's Civil Protection Department to provide forecasting of natural disasters.

Mexico is taking advantage of the fallout from the disaster next door — and the suspension of cross-border prospecting — to buy time for its national oil company, Pemex, which plans to beef up its own deepwater capabilities.

After a disaster or national tragedy, bits of information often are found afterward among vast amounts of available data that might have mitigated or even prevented what happened, had they been recognized ahead of time.

Where is the responsibility of the world leader Winston Churchill... who said in an open letter to the London Times in: «Were England to suffer a national disaster, I should pray to God... to send a man of the strength of mind and will of an Adolf Hitler.»

Throughout that time, Frost struggled against what he considers the national disaster brought about by a combination of high - stakes academic testing and playground - related lawsuits.

Packed with news - making disclosures and secret documents published here for the first time, Toobin unravels the three strands of a national scandal - those leading from Paula Jones, Kenneth Starr, and Monica Lewinsky - that created a legal, personal, and political disaster for Bill Clinton.

1971: The Pentagon Papers, reported by the New York Times «The secret Pentagon study of the Vietnam War discloses that a few days after the Geneva accords of 1954, the Eisenhower Administration's National Security Council decided that the accords were a «disaster» and approved actions to prevent further Communist expansion in Vietnam.»

Winner of national and local awards for coverage of one of the nation's deadliest airline disasters, more than 2,000 bylines as a staff reporter and freelancer for the L.A. Times, San Diego Union - Tribune, Sport Magazine, Elysian Fields Quarterly, San Diego Magazine, San Diego Tribune, Associated Press, and others.

May 8 was National Animal Disaster Preparedness Day and, in recognition, CVA is taking this time to remind all pet owners of the importance of having a disaster plan for yoDisaster Preparedness Day and, in recognition, CVA is taking this time to remind all pet owners of the importance of having a disaster plan for yodisaster plan for your pets.

PREMIUM Volcanic activity on Mount Agung on the resort island of Bali has escalated considerably to the point that the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has warned it will be just a matter of time before the volcano erupts.

The Himalayan Times: Climate experts from six different countries, including Nepal, have called for integration of climate and disaster risks management into national development policies and programmes.

In the wake of the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan is looking to harness more of its offshore wind, a resource plentiful enough to meet national electricity needs nearly three times over.

international Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory are to be believed, our hunter - gatherer ancestors were experiencing something of an ecological disaster during this time - a large - scale environmental «Mega-drought» - which left animal and human lifeforms fighting for survival in an unforgiving climate amidst an agriculturally - redundant landscape.

Times of India: Cautioning that the Uttarakhand disaster may be a warning towards «extreme weather», National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) vice-chairman M Shashidhar Reddy on Monday said detailed assessment of impact of climate change isdisaster may be a warning towards «extreme weather», National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) vice-chairman M Shashidhar Reddy on Monday said detailed assessment of impact of climate change isDisaster Management Authority (NDMA) vice-chairman M Shashidhar Reddy on Monday said detailed assessment of impact of climate change is needed.

«freedom of choice, the individual takes all, user pays, the darwinian survival of the fittest, the fundamentalism of religion, the oppression of labour to complete flexibility, the crude elevation of the entrepreneur beyond the ethics of their behaviour, the mocking of the role of the state in any service, the quest for ever lower taxes and the shrinkage of government, the failure to admit privatisation disasters, the ignoring of education and health needs for the majority, the failure to pursue greater equality for women, the worship of wealth for some at the expense of wellbeing for many, freedom to carry guns, deny climate change, the penchant for war and national might over peace time government services, and finally the deeply flawed assumption that competition prevails in any market (and every market) if you just stand back and watch it»

Weather disasters causing at least $ 1 billion in damages hit the United States nearly 30 times in the last three years, more than in the entire decade of the 1980s and at a much faster pace than in the following two decades, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.