Sentence examples for considered catastrophic from inspiring English sources

What used to be considered catastrophic now seems routine.

That is despite a string of controversies that might have been considered catastrophic gaffes for more conventional candidates.

The breach was given an 8.8 out of 10 rating of seriousness in a global index maintained by a security company, with a score above 9 considered "catastrophic".

After all, unemployment — especially long-term unemployment — remains at levels that would have been considered catastrophic not long ago, and shows no sign of coming down rapidly.

Daniel Benjamin, of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, says that before September 2001 the bombing of the Sari night-club in Bali last October would itself have been considered catastrophic.

Seriously, what we're looking at over the next few years, even with pretty good growth, are unemployment rates that not long ago would have been considered catastrophic — because they are.

Consciously or unconsciously, Sandberg says, many researchers consider catastrophic risks the province of fiction or fantasy not serious science.

Here in Boulder, it is considered a catastrophic illness.

He went along with failing to rescue Lehman Brothers, a decision now generally considered a catastrophic mistake.

The value of Rsv > 75% is considered as catastrophic level of landslide hazard.

Two study cases involving a road tanker, transporting the product as liquefied gas under pressure, were considered: a catastrophic release, from a 220 mm hole, emptying the tanker in a few tens seconds (case A), and a continuous release, from a much smaller hole (15 mm), lasting 5 min (case B).