Sentence examples for catastrophe being from inspiring English sources

Andrew Smith of Campaign Against Arms Trade said: "UK fighter jets and UK bombs have been central to the humanitarian catastrophe being unleashed on the people of Yemen.

Fuad, the music teacher who is trying to emigrate to Egypt, says "it is a second 'al-Nakba' for us", the first al-Nakba or catastrophe being the Palestinian expulsion in 1948 from what became the state of Israel.

Gradually, Ms. Neiman says, the idea of a catastrophe being a "natural evil" disappeared; its divorce from the notion of "moral evil" became "part of the meaning of modernity".

It is obvious that there was a direct connection to what was happening in Palestine/Israel, with the great catastrophe being endured by the Palestinians who had been forced from their homes.

If you were to make a pie chart showing the amount of attention given to the banking part of the financial crisis -- both by the government and by the media -- and the amount of attention given to the foreclosure part, the catastrophe being faced by millions of American homeowners would barely rate a sliver.

Catastrophe was averted.

But catastrophe is not.

Yet catastrophe was averted.

Catastrophe is a synonym of denouement.

A catastrophe was divine punishment.

Catastrophe is a modern great.