Sentence examples for point of catastrophe from inspiring English sources
Somehow, in the end, the pressure has always dissipated before the point of catastrophe, and that could happen now too.
The strain placed on it by withdrawing arable land for building factories, roads, housing and recreation areas for the rising urban population poses huge threats that climate change and industrial contamination could heighten to the point of catastrophe.
Not surprisingly, banks have catered to these desires with a bevy of products, including vastly increased mortgage lending (in fact, increasing to the point of catastrophe as we recently witnessed) along with home-equity loans, investment and retirement advisors, and a customer service relationship centered on local branches.
And from an environmentalist's point of view, catastrophe is a spur to urgent action.
Then he was in Paris, in the wake of the terrorist attack at the Bataclan concert hall, to join talks designed to rescue the earth from overheating to the point of global catastrophe.
With a new foreclosure occurring every 13 seconds, we face the turning point of a catastrophe that demands immediate action and long-term solutions.
But the key historical point of Francofonia is the catastrophe of 1940 and the Nazi invasion of Paris.
But for Moss, The Tidal Zone's ducking of catastrophe is the whole point.
By the time he cites research on the counterintuitive effects of removing traffic lights from cities – it seems to be safer – his terms are multivalent to the point of meaninglessness: "What is the catastrophe the red light assumes it is wanting to avert?
If, however, as many climate scientists believe, lowering our impact on climate change within the next 20 years is necessary to avoid passing a point of no return after which catastrophe may become unavoidable, then methane is 72 times as potent at trapping heat as carbon dioxide.
But from the vantage point of actually alleviating the human catastrophe facing the 1.5 people who remain confined in the open-air prison that is Gaza, the Israeli decision means, at best, a minimal improvement in conditions of daily survival.
