emergencies

Example Sentences

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The Russian Emergencies Ministry said fire and rescue units were attempting to find people who had been travelling on the train.

From BBC • May 31, 2025

“Most disasters have an uneven effect across groups and society,” said Adam Rose, senior research fellow and director emeritus at USC’s Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Threats and Emergencies.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2025

For more than 40 years, Congress even ignored its own mandate, set forth in the National Emergencies Act, to hold periodic votes on whether to terminate presidential declarations of national emergency.

From Slate • Jul. 23, 2024

“The question was asked ‘What else?’ because there's always something else,” Dr. Michael Ryan, the executive director of WHO's Health Emergencies Programme, recently explained in a social media briefing this week.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2024

Emergencies provide a certain discipline of themselves, and our philosophy of civilization leaves it to the individual to get his own discipline from his own emergencies.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price