The seats were built for the pilot to escape from an airplane in case of disaster.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

Now,every time there's a big time political disaster, from the point of view of the Catholic Church in France, it's followed by a period of religious revival.

于是,每当天主教会看到法国政治格局,有重大的变盘,紧接着就会兴起宗教复兴

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

On August fifth,nineteen forty-nine, he was involved in a disaster at a forest fire near Helena,Montana.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

The worst weather disaster on the lakes happened in nineteen thirteen.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

The worst fire disaster happened on Lake Erie in eighteen fifty.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Angry survivors,activists and the media are asking why it took nearly 26 years to get the first convictions in the disaster.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

More than 200 people died in the disaster, which left 10,000 residents homeless in Australia's worst ever bushfire disaster.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

Crew member Kenneth Leahey says working in the midst of the disaster meant the ship had a great impact.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

All proceeds will go to disaster relief in Haiti through a newly-formed charity called the We Are The World Foundation.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

The World Health Organization says there are at least in the world's The majority,it says, are vulnerable to disaster.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

"She's become unstable." "This is the disaster everyone warns about: a new species set loose in the world."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

The Obama administration is clearly under pressure to do more to help contain the damage, and prevent another such disaster in the future.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

That sum pales in comparison to the planned $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the disaster.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

"Actually,in Afghanistan, we have large families which have been destroyed, and that is a great disaster.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

And from countrymen who only five years ago survived the worst natural disaster to hit the world in decades, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Since then, he has been drawing attention to the needs of tens of thousands of Haitians who lost their homes and relatives in the disaster.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

Many in these stricken villages say their roots are here and in spite of the disaster, they are deeply tied to the land and people.

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

Vast areas of farmland and forest were destroyed in Australia's worst ever wildfire disaster.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

The survey has become routine for shuttle flights, since the Columbia disaster in 2003.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

Five years ago,the world witnessed the biggest single natural disaster in living memory.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

"We have got an enormous amount of work to do, and people down in the Gulf, particularly businesses, are still suffering as a consequence of this disaster."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Satinath Sarangi, a prominent activist working with the victims of the gas leak, says the fight could be led by the generation born in the aftermath of the disaster.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

But the head of the rescue services blamed shoddy building for the disaster, saying too many houses had been built too close to rivers and the seafront in an area hit by landslides two years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

The town of Marysville, which was almost obliterated in the disaster, remains a crime scene as investigators search the charred debris of buildings for more victims of a fire that was thought to have been started deliberately.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

"At this stage my priority is to have teams of people out there cleaning this mess up to protect wildlife in what may well be the worst environmental disaster that Queensland or the south-east of our State has faced."

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

"We have to improve health care in general for everyday need and everyday purposes and if it does not work on an everyday basis of course in a crisis or in a disaster it is not going to suddenly work better,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

Facing a barrage of criticism for failing to get adequate justice for the tens of thousands of victims of the Bhopal gas leak, the government has said it needs to revisit laws pertaining to the kind of industrial disaster witnessed in Bhopal.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

"We discussed climate change extensively and all of us agreed that it was imperative for us to redouble our efforts in the weeks between now and the Copenhagen meeting to assure that we create a framework for progress in dealing with what is a potential ecologic disaster,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.03