Sentence examples for a catastrophic year from inspiring English sources

"It's been a catastrophic year," Ramsden added.

Steve Norris, the British film commissioner, has predicted a "catastrophic" year unless agreement is reached.

The three-day week would begin in a matter of days, after a catastrophic year for Edward Heath's government.

PARIS — After a catastrophic year for global markets, dazed investors are emerging from their shelters to ask if 2009 will be any better.

Underwriting income has never been better, and Swiss Re is benefiting from a flight to quality after a catastrophic year scared many competitors out of the business.

1944 had been a catastrophic year for the ZNDH.

But the government rescue of American International Group (AIG), through an $85 billion loan at punitive interest rates thrown together on the evening of September 16th, marked a new low in an already catastrophic year.

At the Pillar of Fire Church, on the grounds of the Firestone Natural Rubber Company, Reverend Luther Tarpeh led his flock through the final hours of a truly catastrophic year.

As in the crisis that attended the first Gulf war, many airlines hope that traffic will soon bounce back, and a few catastrophic years will be followed by fuller planes, happier passengers and a return to profitability.

In 2003, the catastrophic year that defined America's occupation of Iraq, Anthony was miles ahead of everyone".

He doesn't think the catastrophic year, as he calls it, has had much impact on his writing.