Sentence examples for often catastrophic from inspiring English sources

"These service members usually die suddenly and they're often catastrophic deaths, often traumatic deaths," Steen said.

Often, they are not static deliveries of dialogue but dynamic and often catastrophic sequences of psychological transition.

The results, as people were exposed to viruses such as flu for the first time, were often catastrophic.

But it's hard to look at them without imagining other sites of drastic and often catastrophic transformation: Lower Manhattan, Haiti, computer networks and the financial markets, among others.

Not only are benefits falling in real terms, but the complexities and brutal sanctions of the welfare system are often catastrophic for those relying on social security.

Novelist Ferdinand Mount's The Tears of the Rajas (Simon & Schuster £25) is more than 700 pages and I would happily have it longer – vivid and frequently witty writing about the intense and often catastrophic relationship between India's multiple local rulers and their British overlords during the run-up to the mutiny.

But from the service users' perspective, their disappearance will often be catastrophic.

The birth rate soon doubled, but then the rate of increase slowed as Romanian women resorted to homemade illegal abortions, often with catastrophic results.

The impact on recipients has often been catastrophic, with high-profile victims such as David Clapson, who died after he was sanctioned.

Though Taher's fiction often reveals catastrophic misconceptions between Europe and the Arab world, he says, "I never thought a character could reflect a whole culture, or a 'clash of civilisations'.

Well documented studies about landslides causing blockage of riverbeds, often with catastrophic consequences, are frequent.