Synonym: accident, calamity, disaster, misfortune, tragedy. Similar words: catastrophically, claustrophobia, claustrophobic, prophet, prophetic, trophy, atrophy, astronaut. Meaning: [kə'tæstrəfɪ] n. 1. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune 2. a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune 3. a sudden violent change in the earth's surface.
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121. Is that a natural catastrophe or act of God or something?
122. Due to the equivalence between autonomous gradient system and catastrophe model, a standard cusp catastrophe model can be obtained through variable substitution.
123. The international community is now charged with thinking about how to reorganise the financial sector and minimise the risk of similar catastrophe in the future.
124. Even the smallest amount of wrong substances could cause complete catastrophe.
125. It was an absurd arrangement, and bound to lead to catastrophe.
126. Decades ago, a furious space battle raged over their world, and a shattered capital ship plunged into their primitive planet. The resulting environmental catastrophe poisoned their waters and soils.
127. If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
128. This paper researches the reasons of TGP's banquette slumping during river closure by the Catastrophe theory and Self organized criticality.
129. Borrowing a forecast from Nostradamus, the 16th-century French riddler,(www.Sentencedict.com) author Charles Berlitz predicted catastrophe in his 1981 book Doomsday 1999.
130. Insurability and affordability is an important prerequisite of the role of insurance in catastrophe risk management framework that cannot be avoided.
131. Here is a quick guide to the nuclear process, what can go wrong, and how to prevent catastrophe.
132. If global warming really is the catastrophe the alarmists claim, the least they can do for its victims is not to patronize them while impoverishing them in the bargain.
133. In case the Y2K bug didn't do us in, global catastrophe was assured by Richard Noone, author of the 1997 book "5/5/2000 Ice: the Ultimate Disaster."
134. Modern meanings of the Russian thought are as following: intercommunity, the world reply, the peaceful coexistence of different nations and active doomsday in the face of catastrophe.
135. We live in the shadow of the apocalypse, of a catastrophe that will mean the end of the world itself.
136. Miss Ley, indeed, was convinced that some catastrophe had occurred.
137. They all stand on the shoulders of giants: British economist Thomas Malthus predicted in the 19th century that the rise in population would lead to widespread famine and catastrophe.
138. We have the means to prevent this catastrophe but, our leadership is married to this model til death do us part.
139. There is no way to fill in the space between the spines so that they are proof against catastrophe, or easily fixable at any point of failure.
140. It is likely that these " enlightened " nostrums would have speeded up the catastrophe.
141. No-one can say for sure how this particular arachnid met her end, but she may have succumbed to a natural catastrophe.
142. Then the main points of nonlinear science, including dissipative structure theory, synergetics, catastrophe theory and chaos theory, are introduced.
143. He was both out of pocket and out of spirits by that catastrophe.
144. The week that Sasselov met with Szostak and Church to discuss mirror life, a catastrophe was under way across the Charles River at Genzyme, one of the largest biotech companies in the world.
145. Story takes place in a remote town in the United States, where people madding crowd and live a quiet life, but the catastrophe has come in overnight, to their head.
146. Ontheir eighth album, they stay true to form in their machinations of artfrom misery; pop from catastrophe and embitterment; beauty from heartwrenching bitterness.
147. Lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system.
148. Russia has huge problems: crime, poor infrastructure, secessionism and chaos in the north Caucasus, appalling human-rights abuses and a looming demographic catastrophe.
149. No similar red mud catastrophe was seen before: that is why any kind of forecast about the short and the long term environmental impacts are uncertain.
150. If the world is to avoid environmental catastrophe, advanced economies must undergo a profound transition.
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