Sentence examples for catastrophe down from inspiring English sources

It's a public display of authority calling attention to the preacher's mysterious abilities in a way that will almost certainly bring catastrophe down on the town.

"It's a catastrophe down there," Mr. Prieto said.

Yes, all is well, until suddenly it isn't, and Roth – with unsentimental terseness – brings the long-prepared catastrophe down.

The film uses all the techniques familiar from other depictions of mass migration and suffering to try to bring the catastrophe down to a graspable scale, but it's not terribly effective at humanizing its characters.

Stories of addiction frequently pass through a metaphorical crossroads — redemption down one path, catastrophe down the other — but Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie), Mr. Trier's protagonist, faces such a choice at every waking moment.

Will information that might allow you to avoid some medical catastrophe down the road also be used to take away your health insurance or your job, in which case you may wish you hadn't found out after all.

The loss of this GTP cap facilitates a conformational change in the filaments, subsequent depolymerization and, possibly, catastrophe (Downing and Nogales, 1998).

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.

HERE'S an exercise for homeowners or renters who think their property and casualty insurance will reimburse them fully in case of a fire or other catastrophe: Sit down and make a list of the contents of a room in another part of the house or apartment.

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

While the response is ongoing, there are early lessons that could help governments and health systems in dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Irma and other major catastrophes down the road: Deploy existing resources creatively to address unforeseen challenges.