Sentence examples for capable of catastrophic from inspiring English sources

This is a life-threatening storm that the Hurricane Center warns is capable of catastrophic damage.

That made the storm, situated about 390 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica's capital, a Category 5, capable of catastrophic damage.

Irma is a Category 5, which already means that it is capable of inflicting "catastrophic" damage.

Hurricanes threaten the Florida coast line every year and are capable of causing catastrophic losses.

The more recent science tells us that the climate system is capable of abrupt, catastrophic change from a human perspective.

On the other hand, climate change projections repeatedly support the thesis that global average temperatures could rise at least as rapidly in the course of the next century or so as during post-glacial times, reaching levels at high latitudes capable of driving catastrophic breakup of polar ice sheets as thick as those that once covered much of Europe and North America.

But that still neglects a simple fact of early-stage investing: The private investors that taxpayers are matching dollar-for-dollar are capable of making catastrophic mistakes.

Haiyan is capable of causing catastrophic damage in the central Philippines and its outer bands are already starting to affect the island nation.

Ongoing, comprehensive surveillance is vital to addressing influenza because influenza A viruses have the capacity to undergo abrupt shifts in the major antigenic determinants of their surface proteins (4 ); these shifts can give rise to novel influenza viruses capable of producing catastrophic pandemics (5 ).

"The smaller bombs are not capable of causing that catastrophic attack.

Emmott's short, highly accessible and vividly illustrated book marshals compelling evidence that "entire global ecosystems are not only capable of suffering a catastrophic tipping point, but are already approaching such a transition".