Sentence examples for catastrophe bearing from inspiring English sources

After hurricanes Katrina, Gustav, and Ike devastated the parish, it was easy to regard the BP oil spill as just another catastrophe bearing down on the state.

When I first encountered the Wall — in the weeks after the 1967 War, when Labor's founders were still in power — it was largely a place of secular pilgrimage: the site of an ancient catastrophe bearing witness to a recently averted one.

This would all be bad enough without the threat of complete ecological catastrophe bearing down on civilization.

It's hard to look at the world before 1914 and not wonder if they somehow felt a catastrophe was bearing down on them and their societies.

After bearing witness to the catastrophe of wrongfully-convicted people facing execution, Illinois Governor George Ryan placed a moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois in 1999; in 2003, he commuted over 160 death sentences.

Protection of children The Lebanese Ambassador to the UN, Nouhad Mahmoud, said children were bearing the brunt of the catastrophe and would continue to suffer in the months to come.

The mind explains away mystery to liberate us from suffering the disruptive duty of feeling, of bearing witness -- especially when an unprecedented catastrophe assaults hard-won, precarious certainties.

In both p53-proficient and p53-deficient diploid cells, there was a linear correlation between the frequency of cells bearing supernumerary centrosomes and that of mitotic catastrophes.

Beware advisers bearing gifts.

Lunchtime was bearing down.

"I'm bearing up.