At the same time, increasing numbers of Congressional Republicans are disputing the warning that a default on United States government debt would lead to a global economic cataclysm, Jonathan Weisman reports in The Times.
WASHINGTON — Senator Richard Burr, Republican of North Carolina, a reliable friend of business on Capitol Hill and no one's idea of a bomb thrower, isn't buying the apocalyptic warnings that a default on United States government debt would lead to a global economic cataclysm.
The stock market began the week in a funk and ended in subdued celebration as apparent progress in the debt-ceiling impasse seemed to confirm the Wall Street consensus that dysfunction in Washington won't lead to a debt default or set off a global cataclysm.
Small acts of terror in the Middle East, in South Asia, could lead to cataclysm as they did in Sarajevo.
In sum, when Christ had said he had come to bring a sword, even though he was not urging the deployment of worldly means, the teaching of love that he had sought to place in the hearts of men and women had led to a series of convulsions and cataclysms that were forcing us to obey the law of love or perish.
My main point was not that there will be a war, but that apparently quite trivial moments in history can lead to cataclysms, and only the benefit of hindsight allows us to see those links, but by then it's too late.
In the midst of the 2008 economic cataclysm, there was introspection about whether the overwhelmingly male leadership in finance led to a macho culture of excessive risk-taking.
After the cataclysm that led to an alien invasion of Earth in Half-Life, Gordon Freeman is tasked with taking the fight to the oppressors of the human race.
What Francis outlines in his letter is the prelude to a cataclysm.
The discovery of that and other wiretapping led to an official investigation that helped topple Chongqing's charismatic leader, Bo Xilai, in a political cataclysm that has yet to reach a conclusion.
