Sentence examples for occasional catastrophe from inspiring English sources

With each team's offense an occasional catastrophe, the division is sinking into a competitive, if mistake-riddled, quagmire.

He is blessed because he inherited not the Post of 1965 but, rather, an institution created by Ben Bradlee — one capable of withstanding occasional catastrophe.

It is the fate of every New Yorker to experience the occasional catastrophe on this otherwise charmed island.

Those statistics give context to occasional catastrophes, like the Alaska Airlines crash off Los Angeles in January, or reports of aircraft parts that may not meet the required specifications.

And how will dating, or to-do lists, or buying tickets, or study groups, advance in this era of instant communication and dynamic networks, if not through the same things that have advanced everything from cave axes to particle physics: experimentation, mistakes, and the occasional total catastrophe?

Oil spills from normal tanker operations and occasional large-scale tanker catastrophes have had deleterious effects on phytoplankton and zooplankton, both necessary parts of the food chain of commercial fisheries.

He identifies three approaches that a friendly civilization might take to help humanity: Intervention only to avert catastrophe: this would involve occasional limited intervention to stop events that could destroy human civilization completely, such as nuclear war or asteroid impact.

I've made my fill of TV documentary material about this quintessential catastrophe of the modern world, and written the occasional article about it too.

Conditions today are fast deteriorating, and despite the occasional sucker's rally the bear market has almost become, in Schwed's parlance, a "national catastrophe".

A year and half later, her son's regular payments covering her mortgage and occasional emergencies, like a car repair or arthritis medication, have proven to be her bulwark from economic catastrophe.

A catastrophe".