Sentence examples for large-scale catastrophe from inspiring English sources

There is the additional problem that readers, viewers and listeners in developed countries are perceived as not being particularly interested - unless there is a large-scale catastrophe involved.

"There is a half step from street fights on political issues to large-scale catastrophe", he added.Even before this blew up, the political temperature was rising.

Set in the present, it mostly unfolds in a Los Angeles house within gasping distance of a large-scale catastrophe of the kind usually let loose by masters of disaster, like Roland Emmerich.

"This is going to be a very large-scale catastrophe," Nowery said.

The vault, which opened in 2008, contains the seeds of more than 525,000 crop varieties, and was constructed as a fail-safe back-up plan to protect the existing world food supplies from destruction in the event of a large-scale catastrophe, built deep inside of a mountain to withstand rising sea levels and even a nuclear explosion.

Large-scale catastrophes and spells of bad weather have a way of uniting the disparate multitudes of the city.

THE BOTTOM LINE There is evidence that large-scale catastrophes may influence birth and marriage rates, but in which direction is not clear.

Reading "Floodmarkers" and peering into the lives of this town's fully formed fictional inhabitants, it's impossible not to wonder about the real-life human stories at the heart of recent large-scale catastrophes, both natural and manmade.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The relief effort in Haiti could end up being the most difficult, faith-testing recovery from a modern disaster, perhaps even exceeding that from the 2004 Asian tsunami, according to United Nation officials and aid groups with experience in large-scale catastrophes.

Or are these large-scale catastrophes so inevitable that the only option is to stop pursuing the policies that lead to them?

In the aftermath of natural disasters or other large-scale catastrophes - Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and the Ebola quarantines in West Africa come to mind - ChildFund regularly sets up "child-centered spaces," safe zones where we can not only tend to children's basic health and nutritional needs, but also ensure that they are in an environment that is conducive to play.