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catastrophic
1. “This will give you direct control of these funds should something catastrophic occur either to us or to you while you are overseas
2. This left Jameson's life virtually unchanged, less the obvious catastrophic loss; he was able to continue in the kitchens of Mandy Hill's Restaurant and Tea Room and also keep up his own chores at the stable
3. Also the incident with the so called Brain could have been catastrophic
4. decisions in China would be catastrophic for wide world
5. monument of catastrophic mistakes
6. He sensed a failure of catastrophic proportions
7. Had the Cold War erupted, it would have been catastrophic as the use of nuclear weapons would certainly have eliminated most, if not all of Earth’s population
8. I was getting the feeling whatever happened here had truly been catastrophic for the whole town
9. So that’s when I began to realize the real impact of the catastrophic illegal immigration trends of the early part of the century
10. She’d listened to updated versions of this programme all of twenty times, hoping with each new report there would be something – at least evidence that he would never be returning, rather than what amounted to no more than speculation; there was always the expert detailing how such cutting edge technology inevitably carried a risk of catastrophic failure
11. The American People have historically supported the argument that in the event of a national or catastrophic emergency, the Office of the Presidency should be vested with unusual or extraordinary powers or, in time of war, (―unlimited‖) wartime powers, in order to facilitate effective leadership unencumbered by political (party) partisanship
12. We did everything together and made very sure they could not fall off the apparatus for that would be a confidence loss which would be catastrophic
13. Even so, they would have first seriously considered the potentially catastrophic risks which could result from their actions
14. And if an injury is sudden enough and catastrophic enough, it will kill you
15. Just prior to that last and most catastrophic of punctuations, a long-remembered oral cultural history could have described the area as a huge garden where every kind of tree and plant grew, where two rivers that had joined in the middle of the plain and then separated again gave the appearance of four, within the “editing” of generational recitations
16. I call the reader’s attention again to chapter 8 (Where in the World is Eden) wherein was described geological evidence of other catastrophic deluges, a portion of which I repeat here
17. They slowly learned to tell the story evermore completely of how they had survived the great catastrophic inundation, even the “Great Flood
18. Of course, the Nile Delta would have also suffered a disastrous, if not catastrophic flood, for at least one season, but very probably more
19. As a separate phenomenon from the Black Sea flood story, what might have been the cause of the Mesopotamian version? I’ve already said that it could have come from beyond the headwaters of the Tigris-Euphrates river system as a catastrophic release, an incidental causative from the rapid retreat of the northern ice cap
20. ” If a catastrophic runoff from the northern ice cap deglaciation had favored a western direction, it could have caused the Mediterranean to rise rapidly enough to breach the Bosporus in the north through some earthquake-caused crack in the narrow, eighteen-mile isthmus of hills that separated the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles from the lake-land (Black Sea) area
21. Less than ten years after the revolt of AD 66–70, a sudden catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, Roman resort cities, smothering them under more than a six-foot blanket of volcanic ash, deposited by a superheated pyroclastic flow from the mountain
22. Was John’s reference to “something like a great burning mountain, thrown into the sea,” and “a great star falling from heaven, burning like a torch” meant as a witness to an extremely ancient occurrence or was it meant as prologue to a catastrophic event that had yet to occur? Or maybe to both?
23. The result has been catastrophic
24. The effect this must have had on all life seems to have been catastrophic
25. them with an income for producing illegitimate children has been catastrophic
26. So again, we have the catastrophic flood, the man who survived it, and the sons who are the biblical ancestors of everyone
27. In chapter 11, “How High the Sky,” I depicted a real-world event that this parable might make reference to, a catastrophic flood, and the building of a platform as a place of safety
28. Will there be more? Will there be additional genetic “insights” that will lead to other areas of acceleration? Or is this all that there is? What about environmental dislocations that are suspected to have been a spur in past ages? (In an earlier chapter there was mention of a catastrophic environmental disturbance (flood) which seems to have taken place, 5,700+ years ago, approximately consistent with the ASPM “gift
29. The result is catastrophic because it isolates the familiar unit (individual), the public unit (the State) and the producing unit (corporation public or private) in the middle of the society, even if these units attempt to group in associations, cooperatives, unions, political parties or socioeconomic networks to acquire force political or economic
30. Since he had been walking around that might have been catastrophic
31. That which will spring up in its place will lead to catastrophic wars and genocide on a large scale
32. In most cases this would be catastrophic for all involved
33. Agriculture could be affected to the point that catastrophic famine might occur
34. This would produce extremely damaging, if not catastrophic, consequences for living standards everywhere
35. The Supreme Court, entrenched at the leading edge of the Civil War, has begun to fabricate a weapon capable of even more catastrophic devastation
36. We don’t fly directly into one; that would be catastrophic
37. This raises the image of society, like the particles in a nuclear event, flying apart in all directions with catastrophic effect
38. While running from Saul, he had ample opportunity to kill the king, but did not, because the result would have been catastrophic
39. Probably we would have to go back to the Mongol invasions to find anything as catastrophic in the last thousand years
40. shelters, most of which are in a catastrophic state
41. They say the dinosaurs’ extinction was caused by a catastrophic
42. I also said that nothing catastrophic happened to me
43. His choice was nearly catastrophic
44. If they breach this world and enter ours, this act alone will cause an imbalance between all the worlds, which could lead to catastrophic destruction for the world here and the spirit world
45. for which they can charge more than for catastrophic insurance
46. are so catastrophic, it is clear that humanity can do nothing but try to avoid
47. this experience and obtain a positive, rather than catastrophic, result
48. Even the first enchantments had had catastrophic results, taking to death to some of the bewitched ones, but she was ready to use any kind of magic, white, black or whatever, to erase any well-known obstacle which might intervene between her and the magician
49. Long time it had been since she was not feeling that kind of palpitations that was the way in which their ancestors, according to her belief, communicated with her to prevent from some catastrophic event, soon to take place
50. 99, it would be less catastrophic for him than it would be for me to raise the price on The Gathering Dead
