Sentence examples for catastrophe avoided from inspiring English sources
Even if economic catastrophe is avoided, the financial crisis will impose great costs on consumers, workers and businesses.
Catastrophe was avoided only at the last minute when the pilots were able to restart the engines as their planes descended below the clouds.
In fact, the National Transportation Safety Board said today, almost everything that could go wrong did, and catastrophe was avoided largely because the boat was almost empty.
Torre has been the perfect manager for the Yankees; he repeatedly displays that when another clubhouse catastrophe is avoided and when he steers a team that is supposed to win through another dreamy October.
Catastrophe was avoided in the financial crisis, but a period of relatively subdued performance is possible, as consumers and governments tackle their debt problems.
Edwards says a "catastrophe was avoided — but only by luck".
Most are rooted in the organization's 'value-added' as a 'developmental' (as opposed to 'emergency') agency: Catastrophe was avoided and major epidemics did not occur.
The question is: could this catastrophe have been avoided?
If G.M. had made vehicles like these a decade ago, the company might have avoided catastrophe.
A global environmental catastrophe can be avoided, but we must act now to ensure that the Tibetan plateau is protected.
