Sentence examples for catastrophe that was from inspiring English sources

This was not a catastrophe that was unforeseen.

Their experiences were just a blip in the civil rights catastrophe that was Katrina.

On Tuesday evening, President Obama applies lipstick to the catastrophe that was the Iraq war.

He described the humanitarian situation as a "generalised catastrophe" that was likely to become increasingly desperate as time wore on.

This version brings in music heavily indebted to Motown and witty costumes that capture the neon-colored fashion catastrophe that was the '70s.

Like the European politicians who blundered into war in 1914, most people at the Fed simply couldn't conceive of the catastrophe that was to ensue.

Some say that Syria is the sort of catastrophe that is bound to happen.

Kenyans are still in denial about the catastrophe that is destroying their society.

It has shamed policymakers into considering the humanitarian catastrophe that is the predictable outcome of inaction".

For proof, look at the catastrophe that is housing in London.

And in showing the potential dispossession of a working-class family, Mr. Nichols, without banging a topical drum, points toward a social catastrophe that is all too real.