Sentence examples for bring catastrophe from inspiring English sources

The strange character of Orpen Wren, a sort of lost historian who sees everything and knows nothing, who goes out to tell Ellie's husband something catastrophic at the end, does not bring catastrophe as such.

That, he says, would bring "catastrophe".

Fighting with guns and bombs could only bring catastrophe.

This time the flames would engulf the economy and, as with Iraq, bring catastrophe.

Mechanized glory, forcing the fault lines of age-old prejudice and ritual violence, could only bring catastrophe.

The Tories keep saying that such an outcome would bring catastrophe, but since the election they cannot be sure that voters will heed the warning.

But the Soviet collapse brought catastrophe.

"You are on your way out (and you) brought catastrophe".

A Saudi-led, American-supported war has brought catastrophe to the Arab world's poorest country.

The collapse of the USSR brought catastrophe to the central Asian republic of Tajikistan.

So it depends on a couple of leaders in Kurdistan, on whether they have the sense to take advantage of the situation without bringing catastrophe upon themselves.