Sentence examples for catastrophic on from inspiring English sources

The likely result, she said, would be catastrophic on residents, so many of whom work in the industry and all its offshoots.

"What people have to understand – and this is why most politicians are so catastrophic on Question Time – is that it is a bear pit.

Historians argue about whether a given battle was a success or a failure, but, over-all, the military mission was catastrophic on many levels.

"And from a long-term institutional Republican standpoint, the election of 2014 after two more years of Obama could be catastrophic on a grand scale for Democrats".

And then there is the economy which has already become for my mind the number-one issue in the campaign and I think probably will be, between now and election day — barring something catastrophic on the war front, which of course is always a possibility, or some tremendous breakthrough in the war — but the economy is front and center.

An oil spill under these icy waters would have a catastrophic impact on one of the most pristine, unique and beautiful landscapes on earth," the letter continues.

Despite the debate on the exact nature of frailty, there is no disagreement on its catastrophic impact on older individuals, their families (particularly those involved in providing support to the older individual), and on society as a whole.

Enormous human rights abuses such as leveling insurgent cities would have a catastrophic effect on the war on terror.

Then, we had the catastrophic attacks on the U.S. on 11 September 2001 that killed close to 3000 people.

The El Niño climatic phenomenon of 1997/98 had a catastrophic effect on the Nepenthes species on Mount Kinabalu.

She said this would have a "catastrophic effect" on student achievement: "Kids have only one year in third grade".