| The enemy in this case is our imaginations, avid for the spectacle of catastrophe. |
| The stakes are high, and the rewards of successfully averting the coming catastrophe are even greater. |
| Could some of the individuals brought down in this catastrophe have had astrological foreknowledge? |
| The catastrophe of the Late Devonian was roughly equivalent in magnitude to the event at the end of the Cretaceous that killed the dinosaurs. |
| Or perhaps the father envisions catastrophe, seeing such grades as foreclosing the possibility of a top college, thus dooming his son's future. |
| You don't explain away a near catastrophe at an atomic power plant by saying that it was caused by negligence. |
