Sentence examples for catastrophic strikes from inspiring English sources
WASHINGTON, March 16 - The United States government cannot protect the American public from all possible terrorist attacks and instead must focus on trying to prevent more serious or catastrophic strikes, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Wednesday.
Homeland Security Chief Calls for Narrower Focus The government cannot protect Americans from all possible terrorist attacks and must focus instead on trying to prevent serious or catastrophic strikes, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said.
The vulnerabilities of chemical-related industries, although recognized before 11 September 2001, became dramatically more pressing that day after terrorists demonstrated the capacity for catastrophic strikes against key U.S. targets.
Bradley Manning's arrest was made public — WikiLeaks suggested that it had and planned to publish leaked video of a catastrophic strike on civilians in the Afghan village of Granai.
In the Sept. 11 commission reports released Wednesday, the striking portrait of Al Qaeda as a wobbly but determined organization lurching toward its catastrophic strike against America was built largely on the two plot leaders' own words.
One casualty of the furloughs however, will be the Twitter feed NASA runs to alert earthlings to potentially catastrophic asteroid strikes.
Initially, it failed to even consider the facility's potential to increase catastrophic bird strikes to aircraft at one of the world's busiest airports.
"My Subcommittee will continue to press FEMA on its inadequate housing strategy to ensure the next time a catastrophic disaster strikes, the agency provides safe housing quickly and effectively," Landrieu said.
She said she felt herself a prisoner of these twin worries, particularly when a catastrophic earthquake struck Turkey two years ago.
Three months later, when a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti, people on Twitter again took to posting appeals for donations to the Red Cross.
A catastrophic earthquake struck the capital three days ago, destroying almost every edifice and burying about 100,000 people to their untimely deaths.
