Sentence examples for catastrophe in which from inspiring English sources
What I mean by the Next Big One is a pandemic of some newly emerging or re-emerging infectious disease, a global health catastrophe in which millions die.
A Saudi minister has blamed a catastrophe in which more than 700 pilgrims died on undisciplined believers who failed to "follow instructions" from authorities.
But this event occurred around the time of the catastrophe in which the dinosaurs perished, and the extra genetic versatility may have been a lifesaver.
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the 2013 Rana Plaza catastrophe, in which 1,134 garment workers in Bangladesh were killed when their factory collapsed.
They also hoped to head off a Pearl Harbor type of catastrophe, in which an attack on a large base could cripple the Navy.
One of these days, probably after some catastrophe in which hundreds of people are killed, we'll start to take global warming seriously.
For African-Americans, Hurricane Katrina has become a generation-defining catastrophe - a disaster in which the majority of victims were Black.
I remember writing a poem in my early 20s with the hilariously juvenile title of "Hell's Supermarket", a shopping-list of our species' moral crimes and self-inflicted catastrophes, in which the first letter of each line oh-so-cleverly spelled out that mantra: "Life is a bad joke".
He invented a "catastrophe machine", in which a circular disc on a pivot was attached to two elastic bands, one with a free end.
The accumulation of silver into organs and tissues important in motor functions may be of relevance especially in emergency and catastrophe situations in which accurate motor functions may be critical.
Readers of The Sixth Extinction will be unable to evade the conclusion that we do indeed find ourselves on the brink of a great catastrophe, one in which the agent involved is not an inanimate object (such as an asteroid) or a geophysical force (such as the extreme global warming disaster of 250m years ago) but a sentient creature: ourselves.
