Sentence examples for civic catastrophe from inspiring English sources
Why, on the site of our biggest civic catastrophe, would we want yet another middle-brow mausoleum?
In the funny way history works, an era of civic and political catastrophe was a boom time for art.
Aristophanes wrote his play just a year after thousands of young men from Athens lost their lives in a disastrous attempt to defeat Sparta's allies in Sicily - a military catastrophe and civic trauma that some have likened to the American experience in Vietnam or, now, Iraq.
If the so-called education reformers are not careful, they may bring on that catastrophe by toppling the only remaining institution dedicated to reinforcing civic values -- public education.
Every element of the rebuilt site, from the gleaming new towers to the landscaped plazas, is charged with the catastrophe that caused their construction, and that reshaped the political and civic landscape at home and abroad.
In Ancient Sumeria, a woman's desire for sexual sovereignty and radical vision of civic plurality draws the anger and outrage of the male status quo and unleashes catastrophe onto her city and her body.
But, he adds, the threat to elephants is part of a much bigger catastrophe which cannot be averted without "active collaboration from a wide range of actors and activists – local populations, scientists, civic groups, corporations, politicians, security forces.
Although Britain has since had public relations catastrophes on other fronts, most lately culinary, renovations of the British Museum and Somerset House have further aided civic sheen, culturally speaking.
The catastrophes in Japan came at a particularly inopportune time for Honda, which had just remodeled its popular Civic and had been counting on it to drive growth in sales this year.
