Sentence examples for catastrophe upon from inspiring English sources

Don't try to shame us into inviting that catastrophe upon ourselves here.

"He has brought a catastrophe upon himself," said Kelsey-Fry. "A lifetime's work will be forever tarnished".

So it depends on a couple of leaders in Kurdistan, on whether they have the sense to take advantage of the situation without bringing catastrophe upon themselves.

The new German film "The Downfall", which chronicles Hitler's last, mad days in his Berlin bunker, leaves German viewers with a comforting view of their forebears' role as tragic victims of a deranged leader who brought catastrophe upon the nation".In 20 years we will all be victims," comments Andreas Nachama caustically, "but the brownshirts didn't fall from the sky".

And A. B. Yehoshua, who is among Israel's most distinguished novelists, and who is known for a certain gentleness of rhetoric, told the ArabIsraeli weekly Kul Al-Arab last December, "When Arafat stubbornly insisted on rejecting Barak's proposals at Camp David, he brought a catastrophe upon his Palestinian people.... Frankly, I'll tell you that personally, I hate Arafat from the bottom of my heart.

"For eons, it seemed, I had accepted my plight as the hapless, put-upon victim of fate and the Furies, but this time I had to face the fact that I had brought my new catastrophe upon myself".

"The story of the Iraqi Christians has been one of catastrophe piled upon catastrophe, and the prospects look very bleak so in this context, the safe haven seems like one of the few remnants of hope .The Nineveh Plains idea is still being mooted.

This could very well lead many to forgo vital preventive medications and other therapies and wait until a health catastrophe is upon them, which is often many times more expensive to treat.

"When catastrophe falls upon people who are doing their job, whether it be police, or fire, or emergency workers, our sympathy is much higher," he said.

"When catastrophe falls upon people who are doing their job, whether it be police, or fire, or emergency workers, our sympathy is much higher, we do understand they're out there protecting us".

These data indicate that multiple functions of Cdc5L in mitosis and DNA damage response contribute to the mitotic catastrophe observed upon Cdc5L knockdown.