Sentence examples for worst catastrophe from inspiring English sources

"After this horrible day, which is the worst catastrophe day of my life … I will not leave without UN observation".

Speaking after a helicopter flight over Teresópolis, Rio's environment secretary, Carlos Minc, described the mudslides as the worst catastrophe in the region's history.

In the words of the then US secretary of homeland security Michael Chertoff, it was "probably the worst catastrophe or set of catastrophes" in US history.

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Admiral Motsak, speaking from his desk without any prepared text, said the accident "was the worst catastrophe that I personally have known, and the worst in the history of the submarine fleet".

Meanwhile, the US secretary of state, John Kerry, was in Paris on Saturday meeting European and Arab foreign ministers to discuss Syria, a conflict he described as the worst catastrophe since the second world war.

HYPERINFLATION is among the worst catastrophes that can befall an economy.

Hatred and hostility based on racial, ethnic, tribal, and other group divisions gave rise to some of the worst catastrophes of 20th-century history.

One by one, some of our worst catastrophes are materializing in book form, vexing specters in a city cursed and blessed with a short memory.

But most were disappointments or, at worst, catastrophes, plagued by riots, unbridled drug use and clashes with police or local officials not eager to have tens or hundreds of thousands of rock fans invade their towns.

The fire at the nightclub in the city of Perm this month has become one of Russia's worst catastrophes in the post-Soviet era, and has drawn renewed attention to the country's poor fire safety record.