Again Williams skated within two points of disaster before levelling at 6-6 in a set which would have to be fought to the death rather than ended by another tie-break.
The group's suite of offices at 55 John Street has become a focal point of disaster relief.
Risk to the point of disaster; the desire to transgress and to do violence in the name of that transgression is always with us.
Put simply, the pattern has been one where private interests have been given freedom to create, to exploit and to grow up to and beyond the point of disaster – fire, disease, overcrowding, sprawl, pollution.
Elsewhere, he says, after claiming that absolutism is "very old, perhaps older than anything else in our moral understanding", that at the point of disaster or supreme emergency "absolutism represents, it seems to me, a refusal to think about what it means for the heavens to fall" (Walzer 2004a).
The earth's climate is reaching the point of disaster and you are melting down online because Katy Perry wore a kimono?
Most disastrously (that is to say, 38 points' worth of disaster), Ms. Torin determined that my refrigerator — which, despite some dripping condensation during the summer, has always been perfectly adequate for my needs — was warmer than the required 41 degrees, as was the food inside.
He points to the catalogue of disasters befalling the Child Support Agency, also struck down by the ailments of a new and flawed computer system, which has seamlessly paved the way for murmurs of privatising the service.
These points of view on disaster need not to be in conflict.
There had been no shortage of dire warnings from experts that the grid was fraying to the point of potential disaster.
