Sentence examples for become a catastrophe from inspiring English sources

If it sinks below 20% this time, a disaster would have become a catastrophe.

On first glance it might seem that this story has become a catastrophe for Putin's image.

"We simply can't allow a catastrophe of nature to become a catastrophe of debt for our children and grandchildren," he said at the time.

"Congress must ensure that a catastrophe of nature does not become a catastrophe of debt for our children and grandchildren," Mr. Pence warned after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

On Tuesday, the International Committee of the Red Cross spokeswoman Marie Claire Feghali warned that Yemen had also become "a catastrophe, a humanitarian catastrophe".

"If we try to hide our mistakes, as I did, any error can become a catastrophe," he said, adding: "The only way to prevent big failures is a willingness to consider every little one".

History long regarded Gustav as an incompetent, stubborn, and sometimes mentally damaged figure whose foreign policy became a catastrophe.

Then came the last nine holes yesterday at St . Andrews Scotland, when the Old Course became a struggle and one last putt became a catastrophe.

While the emphasis on effects became a catastrophe for science fiction, it was a relief for the capitalist culture of which Star Wars became a symbol.

We indeed do have a serious problem on Long Island and it is most important that the problem be fixed before it becomes a catastrophe.

It is as though the now familiar principle of the tipping point has been shifted from global warming to the interior workings of the heart; one word or look in the wrong place or time, and life becomes a catastrophe.