Sentence examples for catastrophic week from inspiring English sources

Bear's travails were the final act in a catastrophic week for the world's financial markets, in which every day brought a new, dismal record.

Ben Hammersley: In an already catastrophic week for George Bush it has emerged that the man sheltering his biggest enemy was once the American's biggest friend.

Rennes could be forgiven for the defeat after a catastrophic week in which their top scorer Jimmy Briand was ruled out for nine months with smashed knee ligaments after a clash with the Toulouse No1 Cédric Carasso during a France training-session.

Phillips believes that Putnam's assets were safe and that Putnam was the victim of a catastrophic week for the commercial paper market.

One of the most terrifying and catastrophic weeks in Wall Street history unfolded a year ago.

Now he recounts how, over a catastrophic harvest week, other incomers – first a vagrant family uprooted by enclosure from their homes, then a gaggle of sinister gentlemen and strong-arm enforcers – sound a death-knell for the old, collective virtues.

WASHINGTON -- Newt Gingrich's catastrophic first week as an official Republican primary candidate may knock him out of the race before it even gets started.

The mother of a seven-year-old boy who died after suffering catastrophic bleeding a week after a heart operation has said the hospital where he was treated could have done more to save him.

It became catastrophic a few weeks ago, when Israel sealed off the movement of anything at all into Gaza, including UN food supplies, medicines and fuel.

In recent weeks, catastrophic acts of violence have become numbingly ordinary, banal.

Denver and Seattle (both now 2-1) provided the type of theater that many anticipated during the Super Bowl, giving the NFL precisely what it needed after a catastrophic couple of weeks.