Sentence examples for catastrophic reminder from inspiring English sources

With oil, the critical issue has become the safety of offshore drilling and the economic and environmental impacts of failing to contain a spill, with BP's recent disaster standing as a catastrophic reminder.

Men and machines in a catastrophic tangle – a reminder that no amount of training can prepare for everything.

Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, said: "Today's figures are a painful reminder of the catastrophic impact welfare cuts and our drought of affordable homes are having on thousands of people in England.

INTERROGATIONS AND TORTURE The recent disclosure that the Central Intelligence Agency destroyed videotapes of the interrogation of two Al Qaeda prisoners was a stark reminder of the catastrophic blunder that Congress made by enacting the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

A recent factory collapse in Bangladesh killed dozens of workers — a reminder of the sometimes-catastrophic human costs associated with rapid, unchecked urbanization and industrialization).

Deepwater Horizon is a gruelling disaster movie and a reminder of one company's catastrophic oversights, and it stands as a worthy tribute to the brave men involved.

Today, he and the Third Reich are remembered as the embodiment of evil and as a reminder that unchecked power can have catastrophic consequences.

Here and there have been reminders that loss doesn't have to occur on a catastrophic scale to have a profound effect on a family, a school, a town.

The study is a reminder that even a landlocked nation like Switzerland is not immune to catastrophic waves.

Pless called the research a useful reminder that our national sport may also be an important cause of catastrophic injury.

Such outbreaks, along with major natural disasters including the catastrophic 2010 floods in Pakistan that left millions of people stricken with flood-related disease, are a reminder of the potent connections between climate, water, and human health.