Sentence examples for a catastrophic power from inspiring English sources

He did not mention Iraq by name, but warned that "even weak states and closed groups could attain a catastrophic power to strike great nations".

I remind him that the first London performance of Into the Little Hill had to be performed in the bar of the Royal Opera House after a catastrophic power failure in the auditorium itself.

And here I was, year after year, living my theory as the recession dragged on and the month of December became jinxed -- in 2011, Dad passing away as I kept an all-night vigil at his side; in 2012, a catastrophic power spike blowing out one of my $20,000 Mac systems from hard drive to printer (post-warranty).

Image caption Could cyber-attacks cause major disruption, as a catastrophic BA power failure did in May?

The history of nuclear technology isn't all drawn-out military stand-offs and catastrophic power plant disasters – there's also a load more depressing stuff you've probably never heard about.

Now, a decade after the largest blackout in American history, engineers are installing and linking 1,000 of those instruments, called phasor measurement units, to try to prevent another catastrophic power failure.

Bush in Terrorist Warning By The New York Times WASHINGTON, June 10 -- President Bush warned an international group of conservative and moderate politicians at the White House tonight that terrorists could attain "catastrophic power" with weapons of mass destruction and would readily use that power to attack the United States or other nations.

We are pleased to show several papers (authors F Wen, J Jia and F Wei), which are proposing solutions which are expected to help in eliminating cascading events and catastrophic power system blackouts.

Solar storms of such high magnitudes can knock out satellites and aircraft autopilots, cause catastrophic power outages, and take us, according to one of the scientists leading the research, Dr Sunil Gupta, "back to the Stone Age".

Energy experts say that clean, efficient, decentralized energy is key to alleviating the aftermath of potentially catastrophic power failures.

I can't agree with the disgraced Lib Dem ex-cabinet minister when he calls this development the most catastrophic power-grab in British peacetime history.