Sentence examples for catastrophic ends from inspiring English sources

Three of Peng's predecessors retreated into their husbands' shadows as soon as they were pushed into the limelight, a reaction, consciously or otherwise, to an unsavory history of wives meddling in politics to catastrophic ends.

An earlier revelation -- that the anonymous call prompting the lawyer's action had come from a terrorist mastermind -- underscored the apparent moral of the episode: regardless of good intentions, those seeking to protect suspects' rights risk abetting terrorist activities, to catastrophic ends.

Otherwise, we will be struggling to save our wild places from these insane assaults in perpetuity, always debating merely the catastrophic means but never the catastrophic ends.

What starts out alternately comic and catastrophic ends in unforeseen poignancy in "Finders Keepers," a documentary that proves that truth is stranger than fiction.

The 10th member of the Shah family regime was about to come to a catastrophic end.

The period between the catastrophic end of the Mycenaean civilization and about 900 bce is often called a Dark Age.

In the Arabic media, editorials condemned "Iranian irredentism" and drew comparisons with Saddam's ambitions and their catastrophic end.

Netflix's "Fyre" focuses quite a bit on the how, particularly regarding how Fyre Festival reached its catastrophic end.

Yet the Crusade against Aragon, blatantly political and impractical, came to a catastrophic end: the king himself died as his battered forces staggered out of Catalonia (October 1285).

Nathaniel Branden spread her message in lectures and on tapes, developing what Burns calls a "sprawling empire" before his long affair with Rand reached its catastrophic end.

When eight are singing at once, as in the catastrophic end of the birthday party, you feel as if you are being hit by a vocal tsunami.