Sentence examples for serious catastrophe from inspiring English sources

However, Ward warns: "Just one serious catastrophe could potentially wipe out the entire underwriting profit from last year".

"If the Americans leave, you will see a very serious human catastrophe and a massacre in this camp," said a camp spokesman, Shahriar Kia, who was reached by telephone.

Government ministers say that so far they lack the evidence to explain the explosion, France's most serious industrial catastrophe, which killed 29 people, injured several thousand and destroyed numerous buildings on Sept. 21.

Affairs, unwanted pregnancies, serious illness, financial catastrophe and involvement with police can all plausibly happen to teachers, pupils, parents – or combinations of the three.

He said that since a serious nuclear plant catastrophe would occur over a period of time, there could well be time for parents to pick up their children from school.

This is probably one of the most serious dust explosion catastrophes known apart from some very major coal dust explosion disasters in coal mines.

There's a serious risk of climate catastrophe and it could be soon.

I worked in the US for a decade between the 1980s and 1990s and saw the misery of people who could not afford even to insure themselves against the catastrophe of serious ill health.

In the novel, beer also leads to other, less serious kinds of social catastrophe: Dangerfield's fondness for drink lands him in one of the funniest scenes I've read, where, in a crowded train car, he is informed by a disgusted fellow passenger, "Part of you, sir, is showing".

So Heinberg suggests that if we're serious about avoiding climate catastrophe, we need to look at shrinking overall economic activity, de-emphasizing GDP in favour of "quality of life indicators", and reigning in population growth while instituting a guaranteed jobs program or a universal basic income.

In a letter they said there was a risk of "catastrophes and serious failure".