Sentence examples for becoming catastrophic from inspiring English sources

"We're trying to tell the truth and prevent what is a serious situation from becoming catastrophic".

Mohamed Elmontassir Hussein, the International Rescue Committee's country director for Yemen, said the humanitarian situation was becoming catastrophic.

It is going to take an extraordinary effort to reduce the fuel load in areas of high fire risk to keep those fires from becoming catastrophic.

It minimizes any divergence from the planned scope and secures that small challenges are addressed before becoming catastrophic roadblocks.

But scientists now say that threshold is too high — the line must be held at 1.5 degrees to prevent the climate change that's already underway from becoming catastrophic.

Can the government prevent this from becoming a catastrophic problem?

Pressure is building for action to protect pubs from what is becoming a catastrophic decline.

During campaigning for this election, many commentators said the fact that the party clung to Mr. Koizumi reflected its desperation to reverse what risked becoming a catastrophic slide, much more than it showed sympathy with the prime minister's views.

But even as living conditions are becoming denser, catastrophic weather events are growing in frequency and intensity, to the point that weather models based on historical patterns can no longer accurately forecast the future.

More than 1,200 people living in a camp for internally displaced people in northeastern Nigeria have died from starvation and sickness during the last year in what is becoming "a catastrophic humanitarian emergency," according to the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.

And because temporary programs often have a way of becoming permanent, might catastrophic insurance become entrenched by 2013 as the level supported by the federal government?