There was a a touch of lawyerly nuance in that speech – with Inhofe specifying he was asserting that "catastrophic" man-made global warming was a hoax.
The more accurate phrase would be "the unraveling of the ecosystem," "climate chaos," or "catastrophic man-made global warming".
When the government advisory task force recommended against screening, urologists, who treat many men with prostate cancer, expressed outrage, with one saying the policy was "flawed, dangerous and catastrophic for men".
To the contrary, in an extraordinarily difficult job, one in which actions are second-guessed, success is unreported, and failure can be catastrophic, the men and women of the intelligence community, including the NSA, consistently follow protocols designed to protect the privacy of ordinary people.
Simon Pegg – immensely talented man, catastrophic at choosing star vehicles – plays a mild-mannered schoolteacher given miraculous powers by a council of CGI aliens voiced by Terry Jones and his former Monty Python colleagues.
Unprecedented for the United States, these numbers come close to the catastrophic decline Russian men experienced in the desperate years following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
But the more important question "Stuart" poses is whether the catastrophic arc of one man's life — not to mention that man's resilience, wit and allure for women — can ever adequately be explained.
Senator Kennedy interrupted to introduce Exhibit A. "He said, 'Here's a young man with catastrophic expenses,' " said Mr. Fausti.
Witnessing the catastrophic deterioration of a man who had been sharp enough to work for Gen. Douglas MacArthur, my frightened father was inspired to become a neurologist.
To some extent, New York City's eventual loss of faith in the radiant future was the result of catastrophic overreaching by one man.
