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Example sentences for: catastrophe

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The Guardian of London claimed Monday that an ecological catastrophe "far worse" than the Exxon Valdez accident 10 years ago could happen in Alaska "at any moment."
The consensus among the papers is that the Japanese mishap is nowhere near as environmentally threatening as either the meltdown at Three Mile Island or the far worse Chernobyl catastrophe.
Haetzni said the Wye agreement had been a catastrophe because it had brought Arafat to the goal he had longed for--"instead of negotiations between him and the Jews, there would be negotiations between the Americans and the Jews, with the United States representing the Palestinians."
In the Times of London, one of its former editors, Simon Jenkins, wrote in his op-ed column that Western meddling in Kosovo's separatist struggle "has now brought Nato possibly and Kosovo certainly to a catastrophe."
under the false pretext of a humanitarian catastrophe."