Sentence examples for big catastrophes from inspiring English sources

It's human nature to pay more attention to big catastrophes than to "routine" deaths.

Tim: We've had pretty big catastrophes and big successes, and sometimes investors are utterly devastated if something happens, like the product didn't arrive on time or a machine breaks down.

In the end they were a big catastrophe".

"Historically, changes seem to come only after a big catastrophe.

Have the "Doomsday Bunker" diggers talked to the "Doomsday Prepper" people who think the Big Catastrophe will originate underground, via volcano or earthquake?

He said a flu epidemic was the "next big catastrophe that we can reasonably expect, and the country is phenomenally not prepared for this".

Jean-Robert Lafortune, executive director of the Miami-based Haitian American Grassroots Coalition, said that Haiti had endured "a cycle of natural disasters and man-made disasters, and this is one more big catastrophe".

(Agence France-Presse) ISRAEL: BOMB BLAST AVERTED -- The police said they prevented a "very big catastrophe" by defusing a pipe bomb found hidden in a backpack near a busy Jerusalem intersection.

It led the team to feel a bit that if it failed, it was a big catastrophe, and I worked really, really hard to make them understand that it's OK to fail.

But take a hard-working, successful gentlewoman who hasn't caused any big catastrophe but who was foolish enough to answer questions put to her by a government agent, and she gets jail.

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