Sentence examples for greater catastrophe from inspiring English sources

By allowing international law to be repeatedly flouted, we risk an even greater catastrophe.

The alternative, as Iraqis constantly point out, is a much greater catastrophe.

Lanzer said UN agencies have not had the resources necessary to tackle the crisis and has called on international donors to prevent a greater catastrophe.

"To the extent that carriers perceive greater catastrophe risk, we expect that they will manage their exposures down," Moody's said in a research report this month.

It's not that disaster is a game of perverse one-upmanship where the greater catastrophe cancels out one not quite as awful.

Despite hopes that frigid conditions on the sea bottom will solidify the oil and prevent a greater catastrophe, some 5,000 tonnes had already leaked from the stricken vessel before it sank and are now coating Galicia's beaches.

Greater catastrophes await him in Uruguay.

Given the much greater thickness of many of the ancient layers compared with those left by floods like the 1927 disaster in Vermont, they said, society should at least ponder the potential for much greater catastrophes.

"It was a great catastrophe.

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

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