Sentence examples for may be catastrophic from inspiring English sources

They may be catastrophic.

"Particularly in medicine, where the consequences of defective decision-making may be catastrophic".

However, the consequences of progressive collapse may be catastrophic in terms of injuries and loss of lives.

Unlike the failure of a heating system or a roof gutter, the failure of a building to withstand the wind may be catastrophic.

In this facility, fire hazards are comparatively high and even a single fire accident may be catastrophic due to the congested and complex layout of the facility.

Search and rescue personnel will face the challenge of reaching villages nearer the quake's epicenter, about 50 miles northwest of Katmandu, where damage may be catastrophic.

But as his book brings out with chilling force, the alternatives may well be catastrophic.

(That may not be catastrophic for them but it will be for many low lying regions of the world).

Hayden said that missing the daily briefing would be discouraging "but may not be catastrophic" if he was well briefed by top aides.

This year he has been looking at the market towns and farmworkers of Lincolnshire, a strong Leave area, for whom leaving may well be catastrophic.

The suspicion on both sides is that, while the results in policy terms if the other side wins the election may not be catastrophic, the other side's true aim is a vision of America that is anathema to one's own.