Sentence examples for catastrophic choice from inspiring English sources
To quote the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, serious diplomacy is the only means of avoiding a "catastrophic" choice: "an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran".The EU3 of Britain, France and Germany are realistic about the talks they, along with the EU's foreign-policy chief, Javier Solana, have held with Iran.
The very threat of it brings the world a step closer to the catastrophic choice that France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, laid out in 2007: an Iranian nuclear bomb, or the bombing of Iran.The outstretched handThis year, it was hoped, would be different.
Arguing that there are a variety of options available to Mr. Obama for dealing with Syria, Sen. Graham said, "The President needs to choose one of those options so that we can immediately identify it as a catastrophic choice and demand that he be impeached".
On Thursday, Mr. Tsipras sent letters to European leaders urging an overhaul of the European strategy of austerity and stating that "the common future of the European nations is threatened by these catastrophic choices".
But to prove the horrors of imperial rule — or to dispute the historians who recommend that the United States self-consciously adopt Britain's former "burden" — one has only to examine the catastrophic choices of British colonialists that continue to influence events today.
This means that if the U.S. attacks the nukes, North Korea has the initiative to start a battle in the DMZ, posing unacceptable choices for the United States and catastrophic choices for South Korea.
Most Americans have driven a substantial sum, and yet I don't think many of us can recall ever having to make the catastrophic moral choice between killing 10 adult pedestrians or three young children — or anything even remotely resembling such a dualistic, doomsday framework.
He wonders if he can make a new life for himself, perhaps efface his catastrophic life choices.
The early 1930s saw social disorientation, catastrophic policy choices, dysfunctional and autocratic governments and the rapid rise of the fascist right.
For us in the West, it is a story that includes London, Madrid, Paris and the criminally catastrophic war of choice in Iraq.
He was a realist and his circumscribed Gulf War was a "war of necessity" where his son's 2003 invasion of Iraq was a catastrophic "war of choice".
