Disaster risk mitigation and preparedness are integral to the planning of human settlements in countries prone to natural disasters.

In support of this, UNDP will deploy national disaster risk reduction advisers to assist national efforts in capacity building for disaster risk reduction in 20 of the most disaster prone countries of the world.

Its financial system was unstable and prone to panics, and its political system was immature and prone to populism and nativism.

I was a little prone to depression.

They are also prone to making mistakes.

Children andinfants are particularly prone to it.

With incomplete models of risk dynamics and a complex and constantly changing global financial system, detection is, they argue, either impossible or so prone to error that the effort would be counter productive.

China is also a disaster prone developing country.

Regional organizations in disaster prone regions should play a greater role in disaster risk reduction and management by devising regional level programmes and by supporting the efforts undertaken by the countries of the region.

Indeed, without adequate regulation, they are prone to excess.

Sarkozy is a man prone to following his instincts.

Relevant United Nations organizations and donor Governments should strengthen the capacity of disaster prone countries in disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and post disaster recovery within a disaster risk reduction framework, by supporting relevant initiatives in this field.

Increasingly, such teams include emergency managers from disaster prone countries.

Other earthquake prone countries must take action on this matter.

In short, the world has become increasingly prone to financial turbulence.

And, surely, academics are also to blame for the inertia, with many of them still defending elegant but deeply flawed models of perfect markets that create an illusion of safety for a system that is in fact highly risk prone.

There are no oases of prosperity in a crisis prone globalized world.

On a smaller scale, we are living in communities prone to conflicts.

Whereupon an earthquake seized them , so that they lay prone in their dwellings .

Whereupon an earthquake seized them , so that they lay prone in their dwellings .

That help is needed, because Ethiopians are prone to malnutrition, disease, and natural calamity.

Being poor makes you prone to conflict, and being in conflict makes you poor.

Left to their own devices, markets are prone to extremes of euphoria and despair.

The river is prone to catastrophic flooding in spring when the Himalayan snows melt.

Despite the fact that it is prone to shattering, it is very strong structurally.

So the earthquake seized them , and they became within their home corpses fallen prone .

So the earthquake seized them , and they became within their home corpses fallen prone .

Man is prone to say Shall I be raised to life after I die ?

So the earthquake seized them , and they became within their home corpses fallen prone .

So the earthquake seized them , and they became within their home corpses fallen prone .

Urbanization and the concentration of people in hazard prone areas are but two examples.

The Secretary General encourages Governments and organizations to maintain their support for the development of the tsunami early warning system and other necessary early warning systems, such as those for tropical cyclones and adverse weather in the Indian Ocean and other risk prone regions.

Conventional development policy has been prone to fads, moving from one big fix to another.

Some crisis prone countries such as Latvia are already unable to sell any more debt.

He concludes, cautiously, that television is an institution where people are more prone to obey

Control In many countries around the world, waterways prone to floods are often carefully managed.

Anatomy In anatomy, the prone position is a position of the body lying face down.

Whereupon an earthquake laid hold of them so that they lay prone in their dwelling .

Whereupon an earthquake laid hold of them so that they lay prone in their dwelling .

Those areas are also prone to environmental degradation and tensions between host communities and newcomers.

Moreover, metallic money was prone to unpredictable shifts in value with the discovery of new supplies.

And, if the BRICs slow down, they may be more prone to debt and currency crises.

For starters, the Sprague Dawley strain of rats that he used is naturally prone to tumors.

Declaratively, young people are more prone to division of duties in the household on equal footage.

International support for the development of standby arrangements in disaster prone countries is still insufficient, however.