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Topics catastrophe topics
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Examples catastrophe examples
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Few passengers survived the catastrophe.
The catastrophe also claimed victims' lives.
A catastrophe has been averted.
This is a catastrophe.
There are those who claim that a catastrophe will occur in 2012.
The earthquake caused a catastrophe greater than any the country had ever known.
This mysterious catastrophe dismayed the whole village.
Russian rescue workers are also working in the area of the catastrophe.
We will first describe the cause of the catastrophe.
Unfortunately, few passengers survived the catastrophe.
We're on the verge of another catastrophe.
Our trip to Africa is turning into a catastrophe.
Today I saw a film about the Chernobyl catastrophe.
Movie subtitles
Well, I mean they were dead already, so it's not a complete catastrophe.
This film, which takes place in our time is based on that terrible catastrophe.
That woman has driven him crazy. If you want to save him come here at once. Otherwise there'll be a catastrophe.
The Hofmeister affair would have turned into a catastrophe of the first order if not for the excellent work of Division 2-B.
Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe.
You are talking to a man who has laughed in the face of death sneered at doom and chuckled at catastrophe. I was petrified.
I suppose I'm right in thinking that you had no communication with Hammond.. forseveralweeks before the catastrophe.
A catastrophe.
Nothing can save the 8th British Army from a colossal catastrophe.
Now, even money that some catastrophe has brought you here.
Just a catastrophe, that's all.
Catastrophe, what is it?
This catastrophe. It's trouble?
It's catastrophe.
We've been hit by catastrophe, by disaster.
I was a catastrophe.
She says Edith Potter's baby is another catastrophe.
A catastrophe. - He must be taken care of.
This is a catastrophe.
The worst catastrophe in years.
Oh, no. What a catastrophe.
It takes a good man to prevent a catastrophe, milady and a great man to make use of one.
And to admit one in front of others would really be a catastrophe, wouldn't it?
I've hidden from you the glaring symptoms of imminent catastrophe.
The fact that no sacrifice is too great to avoid a catastrophe.
A catastrophe?
It's worse, it's a catastrophe.
A catastrophe, sir.
Yes, I was truly overwhelmed by this catastrophe.
You should have realized sooner what a catastrophe you'd cause for such a person who's been waiting 8 years. in innocent anticipation of this marriage.
You are talking to a man who has laughed in the face of death sneered at doom and chuckled at catastrophe.
If it should ever enter Drake's mind that this whole catastrophe was anything but an accident.
Oh, no, no. Just a catastrophe, that's all.
This catastrophe.
Your whole life, your misfortunes. your lover has left you, what a catastrophe really.
I'm not denying the possibility of that catastrophe. But how is he going to beat me?
News and current affairs
Why, then, do the most advanced countries, in particular, take on the risk of a mega-catastrophe by seeking to create energy from radioactive fission?
BRUSSELS - The tsunami that has swept across financial markets is a global catastrophe.
The narrow view of the catastrophe's economic impact is that Japan doesn't really matter anymore.
This time, we must act to save the planet from a human-induced environmental catastrophe.
We do not yet know what combination of black-box computer programs and electronic trading algorithms, interacting across more than 50 market centers, caused this catastrophe.
It is not that raising poor people's standard of living above bare subsistence produces Malthusian catastrophe, or that taxes and withdrawal of welfare benefits make people work, at the margin, for nothing.
For Murray, it is that social insurance means that behaving badly does not lead to catastrophe - and we need bad behavior to lead to catastrophe in order to keep people from behaving badly.
Those who monopolize power cannot imagine a world released from their grip as anything but a catastrophe.
No number reveals the true catastrophe of the American financial system more than this one.
Consider former US Vice President Al Gore, for example, whose documentary film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, is celebrated for its unflinching look at how fossil fuel consumption is leading mankind to the brink of catastrophe.
Some climate scientists believe that 400 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere is already enough to take us past the tipping point at which we risk a climate catastrophe that will turn billions of people into refugees.
That still leaves a one-in-three chance of catastrophe - worse odds than playing Russian roulette.
The solution is to stop applauding politicians who warn of catastrophe and promote poor policies.
Neither the state nor the people quite knew how they felt about Afghanistan or Chernobyl - one a lost war, the other an incomprehensible catastrophe.
But Countdown to Zero, an equally compelling documentary, made by the same production team and making shockingly clear how close and how often the world has come to nuclear catastrophe, has come and gone almost without trace.
The first message is that the threat of a nuclear weapons catastrophe remains alarmingly real.
But he's always worth listening to, and never more so than with respect to the question that he has been asking for years: When the next nuclear-weapons catastrophe happens, as it surely will, the world will have to respond dramatically.
CAMBRIDGE - Perhaps it is a pipe dream, but it is just possible that the ongoing BP oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico will finally catalyze support for an American environmental policy with teeth.
We need solutions that will prevent environmental catastrophe and that are equitable for every human being.
Meanwhile, civil war is raging in Syria, accompanied by a humanitarian catastrophe.
It would be absurd if we had to suffer a real catastrophe again in order to understand what European integration has always been about.
The fact that an even larger catastrophe would have resulted had governments not been willing to draw on taxpayer funds to bail out the banks was an additional blow to those who have told us to trust the unregulated market.
But it is an even greater test for the Palestinians: will they once again be led by a radical and fanatical leadership into another national catastrophe?
Even a tiny probability of global catastrophe is unacceptable.