Sentence examples for described catastrophic from inspiring English sources

But a Pentagon statement described "catastrophic damage" and said "anyone who survived the initial impact could not have survived the fire that followed".

When the Russian-American scholar Immanuel Velikovsky wrote "Worlds in Collision" in 1950, describing catastrophic near collisions and the wandering of planets, astronomers dismissed it as crank science.

Available documents provide direct information for historical events, often describing catastrophic events as they really happened, but sometimes with fictional elements.

Scientists describe "catastrophic climate change" as the point at which the earth warms enough to trigger feedback cycles that will contribute to runaway warming.

And the environmental impact can fairly be described as catastrophic.

Such phase change is characteristically described as catastrophic change.

Here, his train went awol in a finale his lead-out man, Mark Renshaw, described as catastrophic.

Back in May, we inherited public finances that can only be described as catastrophic.

The family has felt the collapse of the rouble, but the consequences can hardly be described as catastrophic.

Elsewhere in the world, the problems that have been associated with prescription opioid use can only be described as catastrophic.

This is the latest development in a week-long offensive that one health official has described as "catastrophic and unprecedented in modern history".