Sentence examples for turned catastrophic from inspiring English sources

The fighting turned catastrophic for Kurdistan: Massoud Barzani, the leader of the K.D.P., was so fearful of defeat that he invited Hussein's forces to come to his rescue.

In late 1979, as the crisis turned catastrophic, Carter came under pressure from his Democratic rival, Senator Edward Kennedy, and he sent his wife to the chaotic border camps.

Raqqa's later history largely registers as more mundane, a tale of declines and revivals that turned catastrophic when the Islamic State, or ISIS, seized it in 2014, making the city its effective capital.

Set in Orange County, the saga chronicled the real-life whirlwind romance between Newell, a wealthy interior design businesswoman, and John Meehan, an initially charming man whose mastery at manipulation and deception turned catastrophic.

"If the trend continues," the Web site acknowledged, "the situation could turn catastrophic".

However, for the vast majority targeted by the government who lack resources to put up a stalwart defense, a trial can turn catastrophic.

But the best-laid plans of media ubiquity outlined genially by his publicist (played with puckish precision by Sarah Silverman) run aground and turn catastrophic; he becomes a pariah, a joke, and a failure, and seeks to claw his way back to a favorable spotlight.

In "The Man Who Couldn't Cry," Loudon invents a mythically unluckier figure, and turns his catastrophic tale of damnation and subsequent redemption into a parable.

Federal officials said today that they were growing increasingly concerned that the situation in Montana, the state hardest hit, might turn more catastrophic, with separate fires beginning to merge.

"The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think," Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal on January 18 , 1915 when she was almost thirty-three years old and the First World War was beginning to turn into catastrophic slaughter on an unprecedented scale that would continue for years.

The smallest mistakes turn into catastrophic ones and Dan was on the receiving end".