Sentence examples for catastrophic power from inspiring English sources

He did not mention Iraq by name, but warned that "even weak states and closed groups could attain a catastrophic power to strike great nations".

Now, a decade after the largest blackout in American history, engineers are installing and linking 1,000 of those instruments, called phasor measurement units, to try to prevent another catastrophic power failure.

I remind him that the first London performance of Into the Little Hill had to be performed in the bar of the Royal Opera House after a catastrophic power failure in the auditorium itself.

Bush in Terrorist Warning By The New York Times WASHINGTON, June 10 -- President Bush warned an international group of conservative and moderate politicians at the White House tonight that terrorists could attain "catastrophic power" with weapons of mass destruction and would readily use that power to attack the United States or other nations.

We are pleased to show several papers (authors F Wen, J Jia and F Wei), which are proposing solutions which are expected to help in eliminating cascading events and catastrophic power system blackouts.

Solar storms of such high magnitudes can knock out satellites and aircraft autopilots, cause catastrophic power outages, and take us, according to one of the scientists leading the research, Dr Sunil Gupta, "back to the Stone Age".

I can't agree with the disgraced Lib Dem ex-cabinet minister when he calls this development the most catastrophic power-grab in British peacetime history.

The decision affords Mr Chirac some respite by averting an immediate and potentially catastrophic UMP power struggle.

Conditions in the western neighbourhood of Baba Amr have been described as catastrophic, with power cuts, shortages of food and water, and no medical care for the sick and wounded.

In 1997 she published Chernobylskaya molitva: khronika budushchego (Voices from Chernobyl: Chronicle of the Future; also translated as Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster), which confronted the devastating consequences of the Chernobyl disaster as told by witnesses and victims of the catastrophic nuclear power station accident.

Image caption Could cyber-attacks cause major disruption, as a catastrophic BA power failure did in May?