| You cannot run a national grid on wind turbines, it would be an economic catastrophe. |
| The department of local disaster relief blamed the damaging natural catastrophe on continuous rain in the area in recent days. |
| Or perhaps the father envisions catastrophe, seeing such grades as foreclosing the possibility of a top college, thus dooming his son's future. |
| Maybe we'll just wait for the catastrophe and anyway, it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good. |
| The stakes are high, and the rewards of successfully averting the coming catastrophe are even greater. |
| You don't explain away a near catastrophe at an atomic power plant by saying that it was caused by negligence. |
