Sentence examples for during a catastrophe from inspiring English sources

What sophisticated urban dweller hasn't entertained the uneasy fantasy of being stranded in the country during a catastrophe without power, communication or transportation?

"Tombstone" shows that, even during a catastrophe caused by a profoundly undemocratic system and a fanatical ideologue, the Party accommodated a degree of dissent, improvisation, and pragmatism.

The immediate offers of help from the entire world were comforting, and it is gratifying to see what mankind is capable of during a catastrophe.

Some here said the president had been callously detached for vacationing during a catastrophe, while others said he was respectfully keeping his distance during rescue efforts.

His description of Londoners going about their business during a catastrophe shows no admiration at all for British stoicism; he's appalled by their obliviousness to what's happening just across the Channel.

Few societies could maintain such order and solidarity during a catastrophe of this magnitude.

That is a catastrophe during a race or qualifying session in a sport where there is often only a thousandth of a second between drivers on pole position or further back.

A catastrophe during the John Henry Days is early foretold and hovers promisingly in the reader's mind, but the narrative supplies so many foci, so many momentary scenes and diversionary points of interest, that attention skids and stalls.

A mayoral advisory group said the city faces a catastrophe during elections in 2006 if the State Legislature does not quickly pass legislation allowing New York to qualify for federal money to buy new voting machines.

NASA Langley led the effort to develop the LAS, an advanced system that sits atop the capsule to whisk the crew to safety in the event of a catastrophe during launch.

And they can't demand even more generous benefits during a fiscal catastrophe.