Sentence examples for one catastrophe from inspiring English sources

"We're constantly responding from one catastrophe to another, so it's difficult to focus on reducing risk over the long-term and get funding".

Even sustaining your creative engagement could prove tricky: perhaps that's why one catastrophe is tagged with the exhausted words "Darkness, and so on" and why yet another recitation of Ursula's birth is reduced to a mere five lines.

One catastrophe after another befalls me".

You try to get out of one catastrophe, and now here we've got another one coming".

A day of screenings could take you from one catastrophe to another: war, oppression, criminality, suicide and sexual cruelty.

They pull back; it isn't entirely clear whether they've merely chosen one catastrophe over another, but whatever they did was no flirtation.

One last catastrophe awaited him.

However, Ward warns: "Just one serious catastrophe could potentially wipe out the entire underwriting profit from last year".

Britain was stumbling from one military catastrophe to another, America's entry into the war was still six months away and the Blitz was at its most ferocious.

Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet.

Overcoming their own perceived imperfections, others' bitchy comments and the unpredictability of the boys they so want to impress, the girls lurch from one near catastrophe to another.