Sentence examples for lead to a catastrophe from inspiring English sources

"I saw it as a catastrophic process, and it did lead to a catastrophe".

"If preventive measures are not taken the project could lead to a catastrophe".

"Rats on board an aircraft can lead to a catastrophe if they start chewing up electric wires of a fly by wire plane," the unidentified commander said.

If the rise turns out to be as rapid as the worst-case projections, it could lead to a catastrophe without parallel in the history of civilization.

Warning that a rash increase could lead to a "catastrophe," Mr. Zangeneh said OPEC nations "must move with the market and seek stability.

He accused Georgia of continuing to rearm its forces and warned that further attacks "would lead to a catastrophe on a regional scale".

Just as the Rwandan crisis (and Mr. Clinton's failure to respond decisively) led to a catastrophe across central Africa that has cost more than four million lives so far, Liberia's civil war could lead to upheaval across West Africa.

"It's the culmination of little things that have led to a catastrophe," said their lawyer, Guillaume Le Maignan.

"There were people working underwater and any accident could have led to a catastrophe," he said.

As with an earlier investigation commissioned by the West Virginia governor, MSHA officials found that managers at Performance and Massey put profits ahead of workers' safety, and that an ingrained corporate culture of greed and recklessness ultimately led to a catastrophe that should have been prevented.

In one, written on 14 February 2003, she wrote: "Any disruption could lead to a humanitarian catastrophe.