Sentence examples for rather catastrophic from inspiring English sources

The occurrence of a further, rather catastrophic, genocide caused by slave trading and epidemic diseases, occurred shortly after the European contact (AD 1722), has been documented historically.

Sounds rather catastrophic.

But let's assume that the opinion polls are right and any defeat is marginal rather than catastrophic.

There's no comparison: If you want people to spend less on health care, socialized medicine rather than catastrophic coverage is obviously the way to go.

These partnerships inevitably fell victim to mistrust, but they helped assure that the end of the old order was managed rather than catastrophic.

The occurrence of such events can give us a sense of past threats, although we have to remember there are more subtle long-term threats, which lead to cumulative, rather than catastrophic damage, have probably gone unrecorded in the past.

Today, those halcyon pre-Madoff, Mumbai attack, Operation Cast Lead, Russian gas crisis days, when the condition of the economy was merely disastrous rather than catastrophic, feel like a distant and simpler time.

However, the key pressure exerted by increasing average SST may result from sub-lethal rather than catastrophic effects.

The use of out-of-pocket expenses rather than "catastrophic" health expenses [ 12] as an indicator of financial protection could be seen as another limitation.

Making health insurance pro-poor may require a focus on outpatient costs, credit constraints and chronic diseases, rather than catastrophic illnesses.

"4C would likely be catastrophic rather than simply dangerous," Sherwood told the Guardian.