Sentence examples for catastrophe experienced from inspiring English sources

These, however, coincided with the greatest catastrophe experienced by the Irish people: the Great Potato Famine, or An Gorta Mór ("The Great Hunger"), of 1845 49.

Pardew's use of the term "explosive" to describe his first taste of the North-East derby was perhaps a little unwise, but it's unlikely his introduction to this turf war will be the catastrophe experienced by Bruce on his "debut" 11 weeks ago, a fact not lost on the Sunderland manager, who added: "I hope Alan enjoys his first North-East derby as much as I did mine".

Every so often new challenges arose that they would have to overcome, and the wide age range of characters did provide interesting details of how the catastrophe was experienced from various points of view.

Ishi's optimism has been tailored by catastrophe, having experienced firsthand the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which killed almost 16,000 people and left more than four million homes without water or electricity.

Dale and Marilyn Snyder picked themselves up from the ashes of their home and have single-handedly led a movement to reform home-insurance laws in Colorado to assure that those who experience catastrophe receive proper compensation.

Munich Re, for example, experienced catastrophe losses of 11% of net premiums in 2010.

If its gases were suddenly released, the explosion (a "turnover", in geology-speak) could be "the biggest catastrophe humankind has experienced," perhaps suffocating or incinerating the 2m people who live on the shore, says Jarmo Gummerus, a Finnish engineer.

Hannover Re experienced catastrophe losses in 2010 that were 21% higher than the amount it took in on premiums.That probably reflects one disaster-prone year and the fact that more things are being insured, rather than rising risks of calamity.

Haiti, however, experienced a catastrophe.

Yet our newspapers dwell on the casualty figures from Iraq as if they were a catastrophe we have never experienced.

Iranian rescue services, all too experienced in catastrophe, arrived swiftly but were hampered by the enormous distances and lack of transport and resources.