Sentence examples for catastrophic act from inspiring English sources
§ 741.214 Report of crime or catastrophic act and Bank Secrecy Act compliance.
I regret even having to declare that I do not excuse this catastrophic act.
And our present habit of forgetting and looking in the other direction would seem a catastrophic act of global folly.
The story moves toward a catastrophic act of vengeance, though its effectiveness as a thriller is undermined by the improbable nature of the original offense.
Another, sent the day of the attacks, said: "Today's catastrophic act of violence to the World Trade Center, Pentagon and four commercial planes is such a calamity that no words to our cast can express".
The F.B.I., to justify its decision to bring about a sudden and violent end to the siege, believed that the Branch Davidians were dangerously in the thrall of Koresh; it feared a catastrophic act like the mass suicide, in 1978, in Guyana, of the cult leader Jim Jones and his followers in the People's Temple.
There is probably less danger in adapting ther law to the reality of the new situation than allowing it function as instrument that effectively upholds gross and catastrophic acts of immorality.
In recent weeks, catastrophic acts of violence have become numbingly ordinary, banal.
The catastrophic acts of the genocide in 1994 gave rise to unprecedented numbers of mental health disorders among children and young adults in Rwanda.
Until the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 (MCCA or Act), state standards often left a spouse living at home (called the community spouse) destitute, the couples assets drained to qualify his or her mate (the institutionalized spouse) for Medicaid, and the couples posteligibility income diminished to reduce the amount payable by Medicaid for institutional care.
That law, the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988, was repealed within months of enactment after a furious response by elderly voters angry that they had to pay for the benefits themselves through a tax mostly paid by the wealthy.
