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Example sentences for: catastrophes

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The "first" first responders on 9/11, as in most catastrophes, were private sector civilians.
Pop had a way of putting what I thought of as catastrophes into their rightful context.
Because 85 percent of our nation's critical infrastructure is controlled not by government but by the private sector, private-sector civilians are likely to be the first responders in any future catastrophes.
If Albright's childhood is marked by the catastrophes of 20 th -century European history, her early adulthood unfolded amid the complacencies of the American '50s.
As an alternative to my approach, in which the growth in Holocaust memory is to be explained by the contemporary purposes it serves, you suggest a focus on the Jewish tradition of remembering catastrophes.