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Example sentences for: catastrophe

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under the false pretext of a humanitarian catastrophe."
There are a growing number of studies in which mutagens, such as ribavirin and 5-fluorouracil, are applied to viral infections in vitro and in vivo, including HIV, in the hope that these will induce so many deleterious mutations that the virus suffers an error catastrophe and is cleared (Loeb et al.
Commentators chuckled that the GOP was replaying its '96 Dole catastrophe, clinging fast to a sinking ship.
We find the NAMFIS approach valuable in this respect; [ 11 12 19 ] however there are a number of equally attractive alternatives [ 20 ] that, in principle, can also bypass the energy catastrophe.
"We have ignited the very human rights catastrophe the war was started to avoid," declared Pat Buchanan on Face the Nation . Columnist Arianna Huffington compared Kosovo to Waco, arguing that just as Clinton's actions six years ago "precipitated" the murder-suicides by the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, his intervention in Kosovo "has unwittingly produced one of the great humanitarian catastrophes of the 20 th century."