Sentence examples for catastrophe occurred from inspiring English sources

After all, this catastrophe occurred on his watch.

Her son, who had power of attorney for her medical care, flew in whenever the next catastrophe occurred.

But there were also more than 45,000 United States citizens on the island when the catastrophe occurred, from missionaries and aid workers to businessmen and tourists.

"The Chernobyl catastrophe occurred and these areas were littered with radioactive fallout," said Aleksandr Nikitin, director of the St . Petersburgoffice of Bellona, an international environmental group.

"Just as we were thinking this was a problem we had to tackle now, this catastrophe occurred," Mr. Hando said of the declining population.

There is a feeling, particularly among physical scientists, that if we can show that a physical catastrophe occurred at the K-T boundary, we have an automatic explanation for the K-T extinctions.

They have been shown how to operate government-issued alert radios designed to awaken them should a catastrophe occur.

There are some elders who will never agree to have "the conversation" until a major medical catastrophe occurs.

There is no need to develop a separate set of Federal skills and capabilities for those rare occasions when catastrophe occurs.

The devices, he said, could "diminish the quality of life between now and when a catastrophe occurs, if it ever does".

Then, inevitably, some catastrophe occurs, and the hero is spirited away, by either a grave bodily injury or being kidnapped by a Buddhist monk.