Sentence examples for outright catastrophe from inspiring English sources

The bogus nostrums that Coolidge touted have directly led either to enormous deficits during the Reagan era or to outright catastrophe during the Bush era.

While policy makers will probably manage to avoid an outright catastrophe in the euro zone, he wrote, establishing a "new, more robust euro framework"will take years.

But because Brazil's homegrown talent and sheer size — its natural soccer resources, if you will — are always abundant enough to prevent outright catastrophe, the country plods on, rarely fulfilling its potential.

A couple of days later the Fed cut short-term interest rates again to 2.25%, marking the fastest loosening of monetary policy in a generation.It was a Herculean effort, and it staved off the outright catastrophe of a bank failure that had threatened to split Wall Street asunder.

The rest is neither the return to form it thinks it is, nor the disaster Madonna should rightly have delivered at some stage in her musical career but never quite has: there have been highs and lows, but never an outright catastrophe – a state of affairs she's more than made up for in the world of celluloid.

In October, three large blazes devoured vast areas of bush land west of Sydney, and only an unprecedented firefighting effort prevented outright catastrophe.

There were no terrorist incidents, no outright catastrophes, although some would point to the collateral damage in Brazil's favelas and surrounding areas, where killings escalated as security forces were stretched thin by the vast deployment in the city centre.

In order for his climactic scenes – a cascade of triumphs, near-disasters and outright catastrophes, including the reprisal massacre at Lidice – to make their full impact, quite a complicated set of political and historical circumstances have to be laid in place.

Accommodating this growth one could hardly call it development–led to one of the riskiest building stocks in the region, and then to outright national catastrophe.

Renters and those who own homes outright are most likely to be uncovered.America's insurers have had some bruises of late: 2004 was the worst year for catastrophes on record, and this year will surpass that.

An outrage, a humanitarian catastrophe, an outright war crime, declares the US, along with the UK and France, singling out Russia as a particular culprit.