How To Use Catastrophe In A Sentence

Drastic changes are needed if environmental catastrophe is to be avoided.
If the contract is cancelled, it'll be a catastrophe for everyone concerned.
They love the series and some whitehats tell em they gotta do it in three movies and some bullshit tv series..which most likely wouldnt be hbo or the like they cancelled deadwood in three seasons because it was too expensive to produce. network tv adaptation would be a catastrophe and blasphamy..they deny it probably out of respect. Ron Howard to direct DARK TOWER movie trilogy
The worst hit areas are now engaged in the biggest post-catastrophe reconstruction programme since the Second World War.
We have no low buffoonery in the former, such as disgraces Enobarbus, and is hardly redeemed by his affecting catastrophe. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05

With the help of catastrophe criterion, the anomalism criterions of the crossfeed between dam body and foundation are acquired from the real contact area or fractal dimension curve vs.
You'd better take along a first-aid kit to cope with unexpected catastrophes.
Yet to borrow their reasoning and make an equivalent suggestion that Liverpool's fans in turn had some role in their own catastrophe, somehow makes a person execrable and lynchworthy.
As the harvesting effort is increased, the two equilibrium points eventually converge to one point, at which there is a catastrophe.
I do think it's far more possible now than it was in 2006 when the Iraq report came in saying we were losing the war and catastrophe impended. CNN Transcript May 28, 2008
Diminished prairie dog populations now face the even greater catastrophe of sylvatic plague, an introduced contagious disease for which prairie dogs have little immunity.
A proper interpretation of the rocks arid fossils speaks of a global, dynamic, watery catastrophe: the biblical Deluge.
But they also knew there was a remote chance that their efforts might help to prevent catastrophe.
Boing Boing reader/commenter catastrophegirl, commenting in a thread about an enraged hillbilly user of flavored chewing tobacco, points to her Flickr photoset documenting her quest to make DIY kretek (clove cigarettes). Boing Boing
It is unnecessary to adduce proofs that the major part of this catastrophe was pre pared by German diplomacy, military as well as civil, at Brest Litovsk. My Life
In a blog post, city council president Richard Conlin argued that “Delaying the project only increases the danger of a catastrophe and hurts the economy and Seattle taxpayers.” Tunnel Construction Could Be Delayed One Year « PubliCola
It posits a near-future scenario in which society has crumbled due to some unexplained catastrophe.
A bit like an aircraft crash - when all the gotchas get in line you get catastrophe and everyone wonders how it could have happened.
What is not meaningful is incremental meliorism in the face of a coming catastrophe and against the opposition of a overwhelming oligarchic hegemony. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
Taken together they are creditworthy, which is why the impending catastrophe was easily avoidable. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
This would be a particular catastrophe at the very moment that its diverse factions appear ready to agree radical reform of the fixture list. Times, Sunday Times
This continent bore a very advanced civilization, but was devoured by the ocean in some unspecified catastrophe.
Tuesday marks the 25th anniversary of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, a name forever to be associated with catastrophe. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
If the ultimatum is not at once accepted we may look for that dreadful catastrophe, a sex war. Elections Past
No similar red mud catastrophe was seen before: that is why any kind of forecast about the short and the long term environmental impacts are uncertain.
Sophie's life, as rendered here, is a series of catastrophes nearly averted, not a string of triumphs.
The earthquake was a terrible catastrophe.
They found, not surprisingly, that averting a major catastrophe would not be easy.
The preachments of the archaeological community notwithstanding, the retentionist program they advocate is a prescription for future catastrophes.
We're in a ruined future, in the aftermath of catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times
The catastrophe of a tragedy usually brings death or ruin to the leading character.
We've had a few catastrophes with the food for the party.
Because of the conservation movement, such catastrophes have become impossible to ignore.
Upon this noblest youth -- so far in advance of his rude and turbulent time -- throw a horror that no philosophy, birth, nor training can resist -- one of those weights beneath which all humanity bows shuddering; cast over him a stifling dream, where only the soul can act, and the limbs refuse their offices; have him pushed along by Fate to the lowering, ruinous catastrophe; and you see the dramatic chainwork of a part which he who would enact Hamlet must fulfil. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
You'd better take along a first-aid kit to cope with unexpected catastrophes.
Despite the improbabilities, catastrophes do happen.
A hand of tens and jacks usually heralds catastrophe.
In fact there was a series of catastrophes, all viticultural, which had devastating effects on both the quantity and quality of wine produced.
Human productivity and excellence, if achieved by way of human desecration and abuse, can only result in eventual catastrophe.
His new film is similarly tricksy: in the voiceover, it spins a fictional catastrophe that recalls Cyprus' conflicted past over honeyed footage of blue seas, rustic beehives and golden fields that wouldn't look out of place on a posh holiday programme. This week's new exhibitions
And many catastrophes follow from a moment of inattention.
It is the duty of every true friend of humanity and order, to protest against perverted sensibilities or sophistical refinements, which find warrant or apology for depraved appetites, -- for the worst distemperature of the mind, and the most fatal catastrophes, -- in natural propension, and unrestrained feeling. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
A PR job is fraught with potential pitfalls and catastrophes that are predisposed to causing bad news, he cautions, and lists the sources of disasters.
y'all: contraction of "you all," a more musical, streamlined, unisyllabic take on the 2nd person plural than the northern phonetic catastrophe "you'ze guys." but y'all is a sadly misunderstood contraction, all too often torturously overused in fictional settings wherein "southernness" must be conveyed. in fact, y'all is rather more complicated than a mere drawling exercise in vowel manipulation, and only an ignorant yankee would treat it as such. Cherie puts her M.A. to marginally good use
It\'s easy to wonder why he remained silent while markets were soaring and investment banks were reaping trillions in profits on a structured investment swindle which has left the global financial system teetering on the brink of catastrophe. ' OpEdNews - Quicklink: The Great Credit Unwind of '08
But the supposed result of it and a few other recent personal catastrophes -- his latest release, 808s and Heartbreak -- plays exactly the way you'd figure an "introspective" album from Kanye West would. Chez Pazienza: One Last Look Back: The 10 Most Ridiculous, Shameful, or Generally Unfortunate People and Events of 2008
Environmental protection Overpopulation in the Majority World has often been blamed for ecological catastrophe.
This would be a cautionary tale of catastrophes narrowly averted and environmental damage now emerging.
It was not for many months afterwards that Lieutenant Ennefer heard of the catastrophe, and when he came up Channel again on his return four years later, there was the old seamark clear once more, whiter a little, but still the same old tower. The Nebuly Coat
The CCRIF will enable governments to purchase catastrophe coverage akin to business interruption insurance that will provide them with an early cash payment after a major hurricane or earthquake.
You may sweat a little, but sweating in summer is not a catastrophe. World Thermostat Settings | Heretical Ideas Magazine
The Black Sea is facing ecological catastrophe as a result of pollution.
He was short, though, on specifics for preventing what he called irreversible catastrophe. CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2009
Both of the world's major spacefaring nations, the United States and Russia, have had close calls and catastrophes.
These are natural catastrophes but, essentially, they are man-made, " Bruno Moro, the U. N. Humanitarian Coordinator in Colombia, told TIME.
The catastrophe of a tragedy usually brings death or ruin to the leading character.
Four years ago, we experienced one of the biggest environmental catastrophes in our history, and nobody covered it.
The deep fall in shares and the increasing flight of capital warns of a catastrophe for the economy.
What averted catastrophe was the introduction of widespread electronic communications, especially for education and entertainment.
We're told that we've been getting fatter for thirty years, and that this thickening of our waistlines portends a coming healthcare catastrophe.
Most governments know that we're heading for an environmental catastrophe but they shut their eyes to it.
For every person who, warned by a presentiment of catastrophe, turned back at the last minute from boarding a plane that was shortly to crash, thousands (by now) did not.
Aid workers have said that an offensive risks a humanitarian catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times
On Thursday, he had warned that a rushed pull-out would be a catastrophe.
English ideas the _pollo_ is more objectionable there than elsewhere, since his idea of riding is to show off the antics of a horse specially taught and made to prance about and curvet while he sits it, his legs sticking out in the position of the Colossus of Rhodes, his heels, armed with spurs, threatening catastrophe to the other riders. Spanish Life in Town and Country
Today, the environmental catastrophes of history are repeated almost everywhere on the planet, on an unprecedented scale.
It was also criticized for failing to anticipate the catastrophe.
Overall it is not thought that the film industry will be too severely affected by yesterday's catastrophe.
Before these problems can flower into full-blown catastrophes something even worse happens.
The contagious catastrophe presents London with a situation in extremism which the dichotomy between brute physicality and brainwork may be clarified.
Climate policy debates eventually reach the point in which the modeller is asked whether he or she has accounted for the likelihood that a change in the ecosystem will be discontinuous - in other words, a catastrophe.
Along with many other noble agencies, they are always at the forefront of the relief effort following calamities and catastrophes at local, national and international level.
What at first was no more than a dim anticipation of approaching catastrophes developed, after 1914, into an all-pervading obsession.
Such an overwhelming catastrophe would certainly aggrieve the French, for they are a kindly-disposed nation. Military Welcoming Parade | ultraorange.net
It is a show about potential catastrophe and a lesson in how effortlessly any of us can slip from an unwritten code of human ethics into the self-perpetuating intoxication of brutality.
This suggested a rapid resolution, only for those hopes to be dashed when the mission turns out to have come terribly close to catastrophe.
In the age of global warming such megacities are increasingly vulnerable to catastrophes. The Times Literary Supplement
The term employed for such a swift, unrecoverable catastrophe at sea is ‘sudden calamity’ but that masks the horrible reality that would have confronted the crew in their last few minutes alive.
And three of those are well practised at thriving on catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times
It was not, somehow, the air of a man contemplating nuclear catastrophe, but a more pleasant dream.
A kind of mirage is over it, due to the distance of 5,000 miles -- a mirage behind which we are told to see a happy, rejuvenated country; and a mirage that hides beneath its shade the uncounted corpses of Petrograd; a mirage which conceals from our sight the horrors and catastrophes which communism has meant there, and beckons with a false allurement towards an example from which a nearer vision would make us retreat in horror. The Proper Limitations of State Interference
He defined ‘lightness’ as ‘luminous tracings that are placed in the foreground and set in contrast to dark catastrophe.’
The terminal Permian catastrophe, which killed off 95% of all types of life, cleared the world of all large therapsids and allowed the proterosuchids to take center stage as the top carnivore.
It is also a potential public health catastrophe and another setback for the ruling Conservative Party.
The doomsayers predict that the world is still hurtling towards a major catastrophe as resources run out.
But he gave what he called a solemn pledge: "We will hold ourselves responsible to do what it takes, as long as it takes, to stop this catastrophe, to repair the damage and to keep this region on its feet. Effort to Plug Well Hangs in Balance
The worst of all possibilities is if the patient has slipped into an irreversible coma due to a cerebral hemorrhage or some other catastrophe.
After all, there have been many catastrophes that destroy evidence - fossilization is a rare event because animal flesh and bones decay quickly.
The Caribbean may be in for a greater catastrophe if shelters used in the event of natural disasters are not properly constructed and located.
Some of Obama's top officials said Sunday that the spill is a potential catastrophe and defended the administration's response so far against complaints it has reacted too slowly. Obama heads to view Gulf Coast oil spill
Depression is guilt based, and relates to past fantasied or real events, while anxiety is based on the fear of some future fantasied catastrophe.
Well what a great way to produce profit: oversale the likelihood of catastrophe; and if it occurs the state has helped pay for it I wonder how, sarcastic grin; and if it does not happen, you will have recieved all those premiums and state money. Risk Management Solutions Ltd and the 37 Professors « Climate Audit
It was a barely imaginable catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times
The unseemly scramble in the Midi to get American vines into the ground had proved an expensive catastrophe. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
It is unnecessary to adduce proofs that the major part of this catastrophe was pre pared by German diplomacy, military as well as civil, at Brest Litovsk. My Life
The results indicate that flashover in building fires is a phenomenon of swallowtail catastrophe.
It also reported that inhibition of CDK2 by seliciclib suppressed lung cancer growth both in vitro and in vivo of lung cancer cells addicted to CDK2/cyclin E; and lung cancer cells underwent apoptosis or cell suicide by induction of a novel mechanism called anaphase catastrophe, as illustrated in the journal's front cover. BioHealth Investor
The site of an impending catastrophe is the perfect place to picnic. Times, Sunday Times
She continued tirelessly, painting with pessimistic strokes the growing black future her husband was meditating for her, while the boy, fearful of some vague, incomprehensible catastrophe, began to weep silently, with a pendulous, trembling underlip. CHAPTER XIX
The expulsion of hundreds of thousands of people represents a humanitarian catastrophe of enormous proportions.
He was confident that, with just 5,000 troops under his command, the catastrophe could be averted.
Or perhaps the father envisions catastrophe, seeing such grades as foreclosing the possibility of a top college, thus dooming his son's future.
Engineering is countenanced only as a desperate last-ditch response to climatic catastrophe.
While, the reaction of the leading executives to the incident in the gulp is a sign that leadership in the industry is becoming more connected with the possibilities of failures leading to similar catastrophes, much of the responsibility sits with the various boards of directors and the governance procedures which are supposed to guide them. Reuters: Top News
Except in certain rural areas, ‘to go for a sodger’, ‘to take the King's shilling ’, had for ordinary people been an act of desperation in a time of unemployment or personal catastrophe.
If Labour loses, it would be a political earthquake and a catastrophe for the party. The Sun
Before this year of disasters even began, it was heralded by a natural catastrophe as sudden and violent as anything that followed.
(It's only later, during AC's "Catastrophe For Two Worlds" event, in an attempt to simplify the morass of rationales for superpowers, that the Prof's "primalised matter" is revealed to be none other than the proteanite toxic to Overman, but in an omicron-irradiated form harmless to the Man of the Future.) The Legion of American Watchers
Newspapers still blazoned headlines on the catastrophe, and articles described the bombing as the work of one man.
Sometimes catastrophes were only avoided by sheer luck. Times, Sunday Times
Collisions and environmental catastrophes can be more easily avoided with improved coordination and guidance of ship traffic.
Another conclusion from the facts enumerated above is that there has obviously been a great world catastrophe, and that this must be assigned as the cause of a large part, -- _just how large a part_ it is at present difficult to say, -- of the changes recorded in the fossiliferous rocks. Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
But his computing system warned that a world catastrophe loomed and that the dollar would cease trading. Times, Sunday Times
Imagine this lead sentence in a news story on Nov. 7, 2012: "Barack Obama enters his second term disliked by the majority of voters, distrusted by his Democratic colleagues in Congress and facing a budget catastrophe with few painless solutions. A California Strategy for Obama's Re-Election
On the evening before the tragedy came to light -- trifles are always remembered after the catastrophe -- a boy, returning along the margin of the mere, passed him by seated on a prostrate trunk of a tree, under the "bield" of a rock, counting silver money. Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton
Many experts had warned for years that New Orleans was teetering on the brink of catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times
It would have resulted in an unimaginable hunger catastrophe.
He was unchanged even by this catastrophe - he remained as decent and egoless a man as I'd ever met.
The oil spill will be an ecological catastrophe.
The less-than-panicky call it jittery response by world markets on Monday to debt-talk failures has strengthened the right-wing argument that a default is no catastrophe. Craig Crawford: Y2K Syndrome Infects Debt Debate
He took refuge in booze and the beginnings of drug availability, and was headed, if not for catastrophe, at least for significant vicissitudes.
The journey from childhood to adulthood is tortuous enough without the added complication of geopolitical catastrophe. The Times Literary Supplement
The oil spill will be an ecological catastrophe.
It was not at its best at present — the mattress on the bed was bare, as the only blankets had been wrapped around Roggit’s remains atop the pyre, and the woodbin and water bucket were empty as Tobas had not paid much attention to the details of everyday life since the catastrophe of Roggit’s demise. With a Single Spell
Thom identifies seven elementary catastrophes as the only possible results when not more than four control factors are present.
It's been three weeks since the beginning of the catastrophe and more than 20m people are destitute. Times, Sunday Times
cosmic catastrophe
As the months go by, the international community continues to negotiate agreements and ceasefires, while aid workers on the ground struggle to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.
What averted catastrophe was the introduction of widespread electronic communications, especially for education and entertainment.
Jorullo; but the catastrophe seems to have ended like the last great eruption of the volcano in Timor -- the whole of the plain having been ingulfed and replaced by the salt lake, whose depressed level so clearly indicates the nature of its origin. Wonders of Creation
Looking at the world today and comparing the respective positions of education and catastrophe, one could be excused for thinking that education was lagging far behind.
For decades I've sought sanctuary in the Grill Room at the Dorchester when the catastrophes of the art cooks all became too much.
They were warned of the ecological catastrophe to come.
Starting like Plato from the theory of recurrent partial catastrophes, he offers an accourt of the gene - alogy of morals which is much more tough-minded than Plato's: man is distinguished from the other ani - mais only by his intelligence, which causes him to develop elementary ideas of right and wrong in the interests of self-preservation (6. 5-7). PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
These images also act as a presage of impending catastrophe.
Does it not realise that it is making environmental catastrophes more likely with this kind of dubious affiliation? Times, Sunday Times
If this life-blind model continues to prevail, it will impose a slow-motion catastrophe on humanity and the planet.
Greece's economic travails are not some natural catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times
Many a one looking backwards upon some terrible and unexpected tragedy will have noticed with what care the great dramaturgist so wove his play that every little unheeded event in the days before helped directly to create the final catastrophe. The Summons
People with GAD tend to overestimate the likelihood of harm coming from a given situation and view minor or ambiguous events as catastrophes.
We see time-lapse photography of plants springing to life and decaying, then images of floods, war and catastrophe.
The prose of this chapter measures the adequacy of verbal accounts of catastrophe in the age of photographic reproduction.
However, her scheming ultimately leads to catastrophe.
Ferrari profited from these ground-effects catastrophes with a relatively conventional car, the 312T4 that gave Jody Scheckter the 1979 world championship.
Rally organizers gleefully play up the potential for unpleasant, unexpected catastrophe—catnip for the type of New Yorker who thrives on attempting arduous feats, from monthlong juice fasts to autorickshaw journeys. Around the World in 80 Ways
But it's either that or un-ending resource wars and their concomitant blowback, increased nuclear proliferation and instability, and ecological catastrophe.
Otherwise we face ecological catastrophe and the world will turn into grey goo. Times, Sunday Times
Until he saw the trapped wagons and animals, he did not realize the full extent of the catastrophe.
They act as a complement to his large works which are responses to a progressive environmental catastrophe.
It was three in the morning when his unseamanlike conduct precipitated the catastrophe. THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"
In contrast one of the most important dates in English history - one which represents one of the greatest catastrophes ever to befall an English monarch - has been airbrushed from national consciousness.
Never was there a clearer case of _post hoc, propter hoc_; but even the officials at the War Office were suspicious in the matter, and their attitude towards Gordon went near to precipitate the very catastrophe they wanted to avoid. The Life of Gordon, Volume II
This is what an environmental catastrophe looks like. Times, Sunday Times
The site of an impending catastrophe is the perfect place to picnic. Times, Sunday Times
Not a resounding success but not a catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times
The crux of the issue is this: is there no chance of a catastrophe, or a tiny chance?
Financial speculators are similarly inured to the risk of catastrophe and, oddly, it is probably a good thing. Times, Sunday Times
Global catastrophes are made bearable - or at least comprehensible - through its measured tones. Times, Sunday Times
The leaders of the tribe began the assiduous task of sending the entire clan under miles of glacial ice, silently hoping to avoid catastrophe.
Computer system users can not control risk management decisions, but suffer big losses when inadequate protection fails to avert catastrophe.
The catastrophe of a tragedy usually brings death or ruin to the leading character.
Not a resounding success but not a catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times
Other evidence for the quick deposition of sediment on organisms as seen in a great catastrophe is provided by the presence of soft-bodied organisms in the fossil record.
He added that seeing people come to terms with tragedy and catastrophe had played a profound role on his spiritual beliefs and influenced his faith.
catastrophes make good copy
We are the last generation who can avert this catastrophe.
This catastrophe - probably caused by an earthquake and explosion of gases - may be the reason.
The Black Sea is facing ecological catastrophe as a result of pollution.
That dawn the first catastrophe came when a steam ship broke its moorings and took out all three bridges to the mainland.
The world was said to have narrowly missed a global catastrophe on Tuesday when an asteroid skimmed past. Times, Sunday Times
Until he saw the trapped wagons and animals, he did not realize the full extent of the catastrophe.
Whatever the motive, federal misfeasance is getting the blame in many media anatomies of the catastrophe.
It is loathsome to think that balefulness of an unknown cause could create such a catastrophe.
A social catastrophe would therefore pose no more than a minor indisposition for the regime.
For instance, if you habitually turn trivial events into catastrophes, or repeatedly focus selectively on the unpleasant aspects of your experiences, you are more likely to find yourself in a dark mood.
The coming environmental catastrophe, therefore, provides an ideal demand through which the vast majority can identify with the anticapitalist struggle. The Times Literary Supplement
Scientists say the oil spill is an ecological catastrophe.
And without a change of policy, the winter snows will soon begin to tilt this disaster into an international catastrophe.
Greece's economic travails are not some natural catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times
(But never any suggestion of "clawback" -- or getting back the profits that were made while creating the catastrophe.) Dave Johnson: Finance, Mine, Oil & Debt Disasters: THIS Is Deregulation
And most fiction writers that theorize a great catastrophe or attack like this, will often say, ‘More people will die in the evacuation than in the actual attack.’
Of course, this anarchic competition among rival capitals could destroy us all, bosses included, in a nuclear catastrophe.
The phrase confuses many English speakers, since it uses the same word, “evil,” to refer both to natural catastrophes and to humanly generated evil, moral evil. In the Valley of the Shadow
At the very sight of it, one felt the agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe. Les Miserables
But there's something in the way she says it that implies catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times
The colonial state consciously forswore any attempt at intervening and averting these catastrophes.
In those cases, health insurance is not so much protection from catastrophe as it is a mechanism to "prepay Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
According to Mike Davis, a California writer and urban critic who likes to flirt, passionately, with catastrophe, botanical sclerophylly is “the development of small, tough, evergreen leaves…as a defense against drought.” I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe. Ulysses
While the root cause of the catastrophe remains uncertain,[sentence dictionary] there are some pointers for the investigators.
Its attack on that people is a political and humanitarian catastrophe.
The earthquake was a terrible catastrophe.
Contaminants combined with inappropriate wound care can convert a simple wound to a major catastrophe.
The catastrophe affords a rehearsing of the insecurities that lie in wait beyond a solidary family and considerate neighbours.
There have been rumblings of a military coup, although the military brass is not anxious to assume power under conditions of economic catastrophe.
Borges denounced Hitler almost from the start, decrying the arrival of Nazism as a catastrophe for German culture.
The colonial state consciously forswore any attempt at intervening and averting these catastrophes.
Only when her youngest Childe had left - and she glared after him - Kaya returned her attention to the catastrophe of the night.
It was a formula for catastrophe.
This'll be the second time that we can point to impacts coinciding with major extinction events and other catastrophes.

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