Sentence examples for spiral into catastrophe from inspiring English sources

Xan Brooks Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop A broken vase, a mistaken letter, a sexual encounter in a library, a crime, a lie — as so often with the opening of a McEwan novel, it is hard to tell the exact moment at which events begin to spiral into catastrophe.

While pushing his stimulus plan earlier this month, Obama said the action was needed to keep a "crisis" from spiraling into a "catastrophe".

But while health insurance may pay your medical bills, it does nothing to protect you from a big risk that all Americans face: that when they get sick, they won't be able to work, and all the obligations they've taken on — the car payments, mortgage, student loans and credit card debt — will send them spiraling into financial catastrophe.

Although an emergency in the Horn of Africa was forecast as early as August 2010, the international community did not respond until almost a year later, by which time the warning signs had spiralled into a humanitarian catastrophe.

Crisis could turn into catastrophe".

It would mean world leaders had already triggered a spiral of catastrophe for humankind," he said.

At worst, it may push the euro zone into catastrophe.

In the '30s, the Fed followed this principle into catastrophe.

We can't risk a slide into catastrophe.

This conflict could spiral into world crisis.

Others spiral into spinning towers of grit.