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The general took the bull by the horns and saved his army from disaster.

After the disaster, there was scarcely any water left on the island.

The government asked the SDF for a disaster relief deployment to Okinawa.

air disaster

Such a disaster won't come again in my time.

He courted disaster by reckless driving.

War is not a natural disaster like an earthquake or a tsunami. It does not come without warning.

This seat, it's real leather, isn't it? It would be a disaster if some slip-up gets it dirtied.

In 2010 there was a disaster in Haiti when a massive earthquake destroyed many homes.

floods and other natural disasters His idea was a total disaster. The holiday ended in disaster.

The disaster took place two blocks from the bus station.

Failure in Copenhagen would be an environmental, political and moral disaster!

Fire departments, police units and disaster responders all use drones to some degree.

Last night there was an air disaster in which 329 people died.

Even disaster is better than such a divorce between emotion and action.

Let's just hope that our army defeats the enemy army and we can live in peace again.

The defeat didn't dampen his spirits.

Poland defeated Montenegro in a recent football match.

to defeat

Victory and defeat aren't solely decided by the size of your army.

Beyond the Right's populism and the dispersion of the Left which have made this situation possible, I take full responsibility for this defeat and draw the necessary conclusions by retiring from political life after the end of the presidential election.

Defeat and failure make people too humble.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

What happened ysterday was a crushing defeat and I cannot call it otherwise.

He is very strong--so much so that no one can defeat him.

Mr Trump defeated his rival Hillary Clinton to become the USA's 45th President.

In some computer games you have to attack an enemy and defeat them.

Tanks and planes may defeat the troops but they cannot conquer the people.

Failure in one test shouldn't be regarded as a calamity.

A calamity was avoided by sheer luck.

This is not going to end in calamity

state of national calamity

They will face a humanitarian calamity of their own making.

Some people believe that Santa Ana's wind can cause weird behaviour and calamity.

emergency measures may be necessary in order to avert a calamity

He prophesied that a dreadful calamity would happen.

There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

Calamity Jane lived in California.

Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default."

business failure

For some companies their treatment of their employees or clients at any given time could affect their share prices and so inevitably have a great influence on the company’s success or failure.

He who wants to travel the path of wisdom must not fear failure, for no matter how much progress he makes, his goal remains unattainably far off.

Britain's currency crisis has turned into a political one over government failure to stop the pound from going into free-fall.

I think this not a method that I can really recommend unless you are willing to risk failure.

Kimura is a Tokyo university graduate who became a taxi driver. According to some people's standards, he might be considered a failure, but I think it's fine as long as he likes driving.

It has been said that a man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.

Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.

For any type of organisation, internal harmony and unity are important factors in deciding its success or failure.

It's not long gone failure, nor heroic deeds to come, but here and now, which you should consider.

The failure or inability of the younger and older generation to communicate and understand each other is often reffered to as "the gap generation".

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Especially over the last 20 years, the purported link between progressive welfare policies and economic failure in the Northern European countries seems to point to the difficulty of sustaining both full social welfare and international competitivity.

Calculating the risk which is involved in the event of failure, he demanded a show-down with the other party.