Sentence examples for catastrophic death from inspiring English sources

B11 QUESTIONS FOR FAMILIES -- Families are trying to make their way through the unfamiliar territory of catastrophic death.

Although later upped to over $100m, original skepticism by the Bush administration highlighted tension between the two nations, regardless of such a catastrophic death toll.

Particularly hard hit by Afghanistan's 23 years of war, civil strife and Taliban misrule are Afghan women, who are experiencing what health officials call "catastrophic" death rates associated with pregnancy and childbirth -- the world's worst, doctors believe.

This year's collection contains seven entries from the Web — more than any previous edition — and one of them, Kathy Rhodes's "Open Letter" to her husband in the wake of his sudden and catastrophic death — is, to my mind, one of the best in the book.

PAGE 35 Africa's Deadliest Killer The catastrophic death tolls in Congo's and Sudan's wars have largely been caused not by combat and slaughter but by the disruption of frail societies, which shatters families, empties hospitals, destroys livelihoods and opens the way for unchecked disease and starvation.

As families and funeral directors try to make their way through the unfamiliar territory of catastrophic death, they are being confronted with delicate questions, forcing what can be an uncomfortable examination of beliefs about the appropriate treatment of what death leaves behind.

"These service members usually die suddenly and they're often catastrophic deaths, often traumatic deaths," Steen said.

The other scenarios projected the effects of alterations such as longer life spans, mothers having their first children at older ages, the imposition of a global one-child policy, and catastrophic deaths due to war or pandemics.

But they also saw booming population growth even when they introduced global catastrophic deaths of up to 5% of the population, the same seen in World War I, World War II, and the Spanish flu.

Altogether, the evidence points to repeated, catastrophic deaths among the marine mammals, the researchers report today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Based on estimated rates of sediment accumulation along the ancient beach, the team suggests that the four deadly episodes occurred across a span of between 10,000 and 16,000 years.

Bennett's death was the catastrophic end to a day of his temper being flared by a flurry of racist slurs from a fellow patient.