Sentence examples for local catastrophe from inspiring English sources

He will spend some time in Provence, but is likely to keep rushing wherever there will be a local catastrophe.

A global, national and local catastrophe The murder of nearly 3,000 people on 11 September 2001 was a national and international disaster.

But it was also a local catastrophe with an immediate political impact: it redeemed New York's unpopular mayor, Rudy Giuliani, and opened the door for the election of Mike Bloomberg, the second Republican in a row in this overwhelmingly Democratic city.

To suggest time's passing, Dutch artists also painted images recording the aftermath of fires, floods and other local catastrophes.

But local catastrophes like Bosnia's war and Albania's anarchy set tens of thousands in motion and remind westerners that foreigners crave their security and their living standards.Mistrust is only part of the story, though.

His palæontological work in the 1790s had established the reality of extinction, which he explained by local catastrophes, followed by repopulation of the affected areas by other species.

And now you've got this, a local tragedy and a national catastrophe".

She predicted in an interview with the Guardian that Balls's actions would lead to a "local tragedy and a national catastrophe" for child protection.

But they often remain, like Nisqually, complex collaborations spurred more by imminent local ecological catastrophes.

If development brings catastrophe, locals will do what the birds do, the village elder told us: "We'll fly away if we have to, go deeper into the forest until it's safe".

Still, our local cascade of gubernatorial catastrophe almost defies belief.