Sentence examples for cataclysmic failures from inspiring English sources

The rally on Tuesday may partly reflect a growing confidence among investors that the recent moves by the Fed and Treasury Department will prevent more cataclysmic failures in the financial system, like the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, analysts said.

Then in 2008 came a pair of cataclysmic failures: virtually the entire investment-banking industry, which the S.E.C. regulated, either failed or sought a bailout; then, having ignored explicit warnings about Madoff, the agency was further humiliated by the revelation that he'd been running a Ponzi scheme.

In light of the cataclysmic failures of the nation's war on drugs, there is plenty of reason to be tempted by that portrayal.

But did the slide happen slowly, as on the east flank of Kilauea, in Hawaii, which is collapsing under its own weight, or in a single cataclysmic failure?

At the time of the attacks, few educated Americans born after 1950 had any direct experience of war or persecution or cataclysmic failure.

George Packer makes the statement that "few educated Americans born after 1950 had any direct experience of war or persecution or cataclysmic failure" ("Coming Apart," September 12th).

She said the police were "silent partners" in the cataclysmic failure that led to multiple rapes, trafficking and violent abuse of girls.

"I think it would be a cataclysmic failure for black film if 2013 was remembered as the year of the black Oscar," says Oyelowo. "If this year is remembered, it should be as an indictment of the past.

As John Colapinto makes achingly clear in this riveting, cleanly written and brilliantly researched account of a world-famous case, Money's effort to prove the plasticity of human sexual identity by transforming Bruce into Brenda was a cataclysmic failure.

A few more legal flops may finally put an end to the cockamamie vaccine-causes-autism theory's sole success: diverting attention from the cataclysmic failure of the US healthcare system to care for people with autism.

Flaky syncing used to mar my original, even though I never experienced the same cataclysmic failure as others.