Sentence examples for public catastrophe from inspiring English sources

The very public catastrophe of the appeal, ironically, energised an immediate fight back.

The younger Mr. Bakonyi will be charged with criminal negligence leading to a public catastrophe, a government spokeswoman said.

The Hartford blaze that consumed Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's big top during the July 6 , 1944 matinee cost 167 spectators their lives and was the worst public catastrophe in Connecticut's history.

Collected by reporters for The New York Times, these last words give human form to an all but invisible strand of this stark, public catastrophe: the advancing destruction across the top 19 floors of the north tower and the top 33 of the south, where loss of life was most severe on Sept. 11.

These humble, domestic, familiar materials serve a narrative function as metaphoric signifiers bridging and interweaving personal trauma with public catastrophe.

It also pays to not be Hungarian, apparently! [Zoltan Bakonyi, the director of the compnay involved in the sludge spill] will be charged with criminal negligence leading to a public catastrophe, and if convicted could face a sentence of up to 10 years, according to a government spokeswoman.

"Unless we're willing to rethink today's Internet," says Nick McKeown, a Stanford engineer involved in building a new Internet, "we're just waiting for a series of public catastrophes".

It seemed disrespectful of the Holocaust, co-opting the great tragic experience of the Jews under Nazism for a very great but very different realm of tragedy, a disease that had become a public health catastrophe.

These days, asbestos symbolizes a public health catastrophe.

So, on top of a crisis, the university has heaped a public relations catastrophe.

"Put simply, diesel exhaust is the biggest public health catastrophe since the Black Death".