Sentence examples for great catastrophe from inspiring English sources

"It was a great catastrophe.

Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide.

He plumped for "medz yeghern", Armenian for "great catastrophe".

According to the shopkeeper, "The Century's Great Catastrophe" was selling particularly well.

Many cheerleaders of this great catastrophe still show scant remorse or penitence.

How does the president of South Africa say, 'I stay away from this great catastrophe?' ".

THE great contraception catastrophe seemed destined to end this way, that is, not to end at all.

All you have to do is look at the World Trade Center and September 11th, one of the great catastrophes, in my opinion, the single greatest military catastrophe in the history of our country; worse than Pearl Harbor because you take a look at what's happened, and citizens were attacked, as opposed to the military being attacked — one of the true great catastrophes.

Like Charles Lyell before him, he doubted that species went extinct in great "catastrophes". Just as the planet's geology changed gradually, so did its species become extinct gradually as new species were formed.

In other words, the loss is spread over the country, the disaster to an individual is shared by many, the disaster to a community shared by other communities; great catastrophes are thereby lessened, and, it may be, repaired.

Setting aside natural disasters, most of the great catastrophes of human history have been government failures of one sort or another.