In a sense that catastrophe sparked the transplantation of modern art to America, extracted from its European roots.
The inflationary catastrophe sparked by 1970s populism has faded from the public memory, and no longer serves as a cautionary tale.
Four year anniversary coverage of a crisis that has claimed the lives of 200,000 people, sparked a humanitarian catastrophe, fuelled violent Islamic extremism and exposed serious splits in the international community.
It's a cautionary tale about simmering class divisions that explode when sparked by unanticipated catastrophe.
Brown hopes the Blueberry catastrophe sparks broader awareness of the global labor crisis causing this systemic neglect.
Threats of nuclear catastrophe sparked rumors that Japan's revered emperor had been secretly moved far from Tokyo, economic collapse seemed imminent, and political systems were jolted.
This was before Steven Soderbergh's movie "Contagion" came out, and made it thoroughly, unnervingly obvious to all that a mutated flu virus could spark a global disease catastrophe necessitating prolonged self-quarantine.
There were reasonable fears that default could plunge Greece into chaos, precipitate bond crises in the euro zone and spark a European banking catastrophe.But the European economy, as a whole, is now in better shape.
With the news of the disastrous Battle of Tsushima in May 1905 morale dropped to an all time low and only needed a spark to set off a major catastrophe.
Once you have fuel and a spark, all you need is oxygen to have a catastrophe.
This indicates that it is difficult to end fragmented institutional arrangement, improve adaptive leadership (Howitt and Leonard 2009) in catastrophe response, set up fault-tolerant incentive mechanisms, and spark interdepartmental innovation and coordination.
