A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
Life without Music would be a Mistake. Life without Books would be Catastrophic!
Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at see, washed be...
I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe.
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.
If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.
Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.
It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.
Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden.
Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.