Sentence examples for close to catastrophe from inspiring English sources
It was true that we'd come close to catastrophe, but it hadn't happened.
These have brought drainage levels of aquifers in the 1,300sq km park desperately close to catastrophe.
"But in some cases the crew haven't operated this, and in my view they have got quite close to catastrophe – if it was at night they could have turned out badly".
In 2012, typhoon Haikui battered the megacity of 12 million people for eight days, but when tropical storm Ondoy hit Manila in 2009 and a month's worth of rain fell in a few hours, the city came close to catastrophe.
The overwhelming focus on austerity; the succession of half-baked rescue plans; the refusal to lay out a clear path for the fiscal and banking integration that is needed for the single currency to survive: these too are reasons why the euro is so close to catastrophe.
Still, some Indian and Pakistani military officers and civilian officials I spoke to say that the 2001-02 war scare was their Cuban missile crisis — a confrontation that came so close to catastrophe that it shocked both sides into a new approach to nuclear deterrence, one that is grounded in military restraint, political patience, and negotiations about underlying grievances.
None of us had ever felt closer to catastrophe.
ARE battles between Nigeria's armed forces and militants in the Niger Delta pushing the country closer to catastrophe?
No personal belief or political affiliation can change the stark truth that every new oil well and pipeline pushes us all closer to catastrophe.
Adopting a restrained, documentary tone, he slowly builds a picture of massing natural forces and helpless humanity, brought closer and closer to catastrophe with each tick of the clock.
In the past few weeks Syrian soldiers and regime officials (including the Syrian Prime Minister) have defected, some residents of Aleppo and Damascus have turned on the regime after the destruction of their neighborhoods, more weapons from abroad have likely been sent to the FSA, and the Assad regime's finances have been nudged ever closer to catastrophe.
