Sentence examples for true catastrophe from inspiring English sources

That would be the true catastrophe.

This is undoubtedly true; catastrophe need not accompany global warming.

But the true catastrophe of modern London is architectural.

The true catastrophe is that we are living under a permanent threat of catastrophe"..

The likeliest form of true catastrophe on the planet, after all, involves panicking an armed-to-the-teeth Russia with absurdly overstretched NATO guarantees.

That, in turn, could lead to a true catastrophe: Italy would probably be forced to return to the lira, which would most likely be tremendously devalued.

And yet, says John F. Timoney, once a senior police commander in New York and the former police commissioner in Philadelphia, the events of Sept. 11 are among the most rare in American public life: true catastrophes that have gone fundamentally unscrutinized.

The near disappearance of corals and the myriad organisms that depend upon them would constitute a true biodiversity catastrophe, but also a grave human crisis for the many millions of people who rely upon reefs for their health and wellbeing.

Both scenarios will likely result in a profound waste of effort, rather than progress to a true medical catastrophe.

But after a decade in which two true national catastrophes, a wasteful war and a near-ruinous financial collapse, were both in part byproducts of the ease with which our leaders bamboozled us, we can't so easily move on.

Orbital debris could block all these benefits for centuries and prevent us from developing clean energy sources like space solar power satellites, exploring our Solar System and someday making humanity a multi-planetary civilization capable of surviving true climatic catastrophes.