Sentence examples for brought catastrophe from inspiring English sources

But the Soviet collapse brought catastrophe.

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

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

The revolution has brought "catastrophe," he said, dominated by powerful militias who "don't find it in their interests for democracy to work".

Both articles parroted a 1981 Communist party resolution that conceded the Cultural Revolution had caused "domestic turmoil and brought catastrophe to the party, the state and the whole people" but skirted over Mao's central role.

Sixty-two yeago ago today, the combination of a severe storm and high spring tide brought catastrophe to the east coast of England, as the water rose to six metres above sea level and overwhelmed the land.

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.