Sentence examples for minor catastrophe from inspiring English sources

The potential penalty was described by German newspaper Handelsblatt as a "minor catastrophe".

Lunch does not quite work out as planned, but his response to this minor catastrophe is laughter.

The home side needed only four smartly executed counter-attacks to inflict a minor catastrophe on their guests.

At 78, Georgopoulos belongs to a generation brought up on loss, starting with the Asia Minor catastrophe that followed Greece's disastrous military campaign against the Ottoman Turks.

But Manischewitz made its way into the news last month through a (very) minor catastrophe, a production problem at a new high-speed, computer-controlled oven at the company's Newark plant.

Even more unfortunate for any members of its still dedicated, weary userbase, Twitter's latest wholly avoidable minor catastrophe comes as a surprise to no one.

Each chapter focusses on one year, setting the minor catastrophes and victories of the family's life against a backdrop of historical change, particularly the Great Depression.

However, a sizable proportion of the frequent minor catastrophes are admittedly down to my walking around in a daze, being unaware of my own body and its strength, and not looking where I'm going.

In the poorer districts, its a minor domestic catastrophe that the whole neighborhood takes an interest.

That unlikely event, reported in the Villager, occurred just a few days before a minor plumbing catastrophe over at the Times shut down most of its toilets.

The one, admittedly minor, Apostrophe Catastrophe (AC) "tipping point" that tempted me to throw all of the final exams out of the window (if not to jump out of the window myself): September 11'th.