“Before this year of disasters even began, it was heralded by a natural catastrophe as sudden and violent as anything that followed.”

“The long-awaited opening of the movie had been preceded by rumors that the film was a catastrophe.”

“You cannot run a national grid on wind turbines, it would be an economic catastrophe.”

“It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.”

“Instead, in a more Brechtian key, we are left stranded in catastasis, and Bernard Shaw and Totalitarianism forgoes anodyne closure in favor of sustained dissonance.”

“Joshua the Stylite, Philagathos' De siccitate, and Synesius of Cyrene's Catastasis.”

“In one of his books he reviewed the early nineteenth-century development of catastrophism and uniformitarianism and made this revealing comment.”

“He considered species to be indistinctly defined, a view that conflicted with the doctrine of catastrophism held by many of his contemporaries.”

“The idea paved the way for the widespread acceptance of Alvarez's theory about the demise of the dinosaurs and heralded a return to the ideas of catastrophism.”

“Paul tries to lead us out of the catastrophization of childhood but too often plays right into it.”

“The comparison of the evolution of sub-Saharan consumption with those of the OECD countries is a revelation of the African catastrophy.”

“That this summit, where important choises will be take, should be serious and respected if we want to evoid an ecological catastrophy.”

“This could actually mean a further increase, barring a financial catastrophy.”

“Through catastrophes such as the Deluge or Sodom and Gomorrah, the religious imagination fantasised about the end of the world.”

“Remember the anticipations of catastrophes brought about by computer meltdowns.”

“What are a few entirely avoidable catastrophes to a thrusting modern economy?”

“He examined the site to learn about floods and mountain formation, thus drawing the event into a debate between gradualists and catastrophists.”

“But they believed that much of the geological record was formed quickly and catastrophically, as the early nineteenth-century catastrophists had believed.”

“Leading catastrophists such as them promoted the so-called diluvial theory, which accounted for many geological phenomena by the action of the biblical flood.”

“His fear of an over-undustrialised world is illustrated by four supersonic jets, messengers of future catastrophies.”

“Only recently emerging from a violent political crisis, Haiti is suffering the casualties of several natural catastrophies.”

“However, registration of accidents is limited to fatalities and other catastrophies.”