Sentence examples for a catastrophic turn from inspiring English sources

In retrospect, Ravitch believes that the reform movement took a catastrophic turn when test-based accountability began to dominate education policy.

Virtually no one who has followed his career believes that he will resign his seat barring anything short of a catastrophic turn in his health.

Besides all this -- and this is most critical -- an experienced firefigher is constantly on the lookout for signs that suggest the fire may be about to take a catastrophic turn.

While the repercussions of their tardiness are minimal at first – pissed-off mates, spending too much on taxis – halfway through the song, things take a catastrophic turn: their best friend ends up hating them, one of them misses the birth of their baby, and they get turned away from the gates of heaven and end up in hell.

That's a catastrophic number.

Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 5.55am Before55 Before the spin doctors arrive, the Guardian's Ewen MacAskill gives his verdict from the scene of the debate: Joe Biden raised Democratic morale tonight with a forceful, confident performance that will raise Democratic morale after Barack Obama's catastrophic turn last week.

I was out of step with the world, but for Zoe, who was suffering from anxiety, sadness and panic attacks, this catastrophic turn of events meant that the world had caught up with her frightened sense of the way things were.

He said the administration's failure in planning for Iraq had been "catastrophic," turning the country into a "haven for terrorists".

It started as a catastrophic rotational blockslide and turned into an earthflow in the distal part of the landslide.

To prevent a catastrophic deflation as speculators turned in their pesos, Cavallo arranged for stopgap loans from the IMF (Argentina was tossed into a temporary recession because the IMF demanded major tax boosts as a condition for the bridge-loan financing).

Researchers have long speculated that either a huge impact or volcanic eruptions may have triggered a catastrophic climate change, which in turn caused this dramatic shift in the fossil record--a transition that marks the boundary between the Permian and the Triassic periods.