Sentence examples for cataclysm over from inspiring English sources

Up to now, the bankers have argued that the financial crisis was like what insurers call an "act of God," an unforeseeable cataclysm over which they had no control.

Sandwiched between those two literally world-changing events are smaller cataclysms that, over time, gave rise to the earth's water, diamonds and lobsters — and also to the only species that exploits all three.

"Who the" -- here he uttered an expletive associated with Rahm Emanuel -- "says my personality is not like Rahm Emanuel's?" When Sunstein moved into his new office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building last September, Washington was a brittle place -- the financial cataclysm still hung over everything.

Princip, discouraged at the apparent failure of the planned murder, seized the unexpected opportunity and fired the shots that began the First World War, a cataclysm which claimed over nine million lives, ended four empires and set in motion events from the Communist Revolution in Russia to the rise of Nazi Germany.

But monsters threaten, the dream breaks up in universal cataclysm, weariness and self pity take over, and both boat and voyant capitulate.

There was no denying that this great cataclysm had been fought over slavery.

The cataclysm of modernism that broke over America with the Armory Show, in 1913, had marginalized these artists, and for a while Mrs. Whitney was their most generous patron.

The alternative is too gloomy to countenance; a public, whipped into a frenzy of anger over an environmental cataclysm, responding with a knee-jerk anti-governmentalism that renders it even harder, in the long-run, to rein in Big Oil or to clean up Big Oil's messes when they next occur.