Sentence examples for catastrophic move from inspiring English sources
The cast have survived a decade thick with war, infidelity, breakups and Kennedy and are entering a new decade in which Nixon will ban smoking ads on TV, a potentially catastrophic move for the already brittle firm.
But Papandreou – who described the prospect of Greece restructuring its debt as a "catastrophic" move that would bring about the collapse of the banking system – insisted on sounding a message of hope.
As the storm, described by the National Hurricane Center as "potentially catastrophic," moved toward the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Tuesday, little could be learned about the conditions on Dominica.
"Mine is a plan that will cut soaring premiums, cut the waste, cut the greed, and cut Americans a good deal," Mr. Kerry, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, told several hundred people, of his proposal to have the federal government assume the responsibility for catastrophic care, a move intended to reduce health insurance costs.
It hedges against catastrophic mistakes by moving in a stepwise fashion and preserving fallback options in case the new system doesn't work.
Like many of the recent catastrophic superstorms, Maria moved over the island at a snail's pace of about nine miles per hour after gaining strength as it traveled over unusually warm Atlantic waters.
But the unions labelled the move as catastrophic and a disaster.
He emerged to lobby Congress for better insurance protection against catastrophic injury and to move an Academy Award audience to tears with a call for more films about social issues.
Enduring months of therapy to allow him to breathe for longer and longer periods without a respirator, Reeve emerged to lobby Congress for better insurance protection against catastrophic injury and to move an Academy Award audience to tears with a call for more films about social issues.
President Bush signed legislation today requiring that the federal government pick up most of the insurance losses in a catastrophic terrorist attack, a move that represented a political triumph for the White House and some relief for the ailing real estate and construction industry in New York.
