Sentence examples for catastrophic disaster from inspiring English sources

It would be naïve to see this as anything other than a catastrophic disaster.

The country is teetering on the brink of a catastrophic disaster.

"If this is the best that BP can do, then I think it's clear why the Gulf of Mexico spill was such a catastrophic disaster.

Governor Jeb Bush declared a state of emergency in advance of the storm, and warned that the state faced 'yet another catastrophic disaster'.

"I knew God would find a way to bring them home, but who would have thought like this, through a catastrophic disaster?" said Kristin Heaton, their 49-year-old adoptive mother.

More than 16 millioncommercial cargo containers arrive by air, sea, and land every year,and all it would take for a catastrophic disaster would be for oneof the steel crates to conceal a nuclear device.

And then there are the catastrophic disasters arising from the interminable squeezing of expense.

The root cause is the Concorde itself and its vulnerability to such catastrophic disasters.

It has been phenomenal that we have avoided potential catastrophic disasters to life and structures".

In the first place, people have trouble imagining how small failings can combine to lead to catastrophic disasters.

In the wake of catastrophic disasters, citizens have used the Internet to donate to charities in an unprecedented fashion.