Meanings of national catastrophe in English

A national catastrophe is unfolding, with each day bringing new shocks.

Not qualifying for the World Cup would be a national catastrophe.

At best it would be a national distraction, at worst a national catastrophe.

Meanwhile, Burkina Faso has declared a state of national catastrophe following recent torrential rain.

For their government, "celibacy syndrome" is part of a looming national catastrophe.

Its collapse would be a national catastrophe.

The result would have been an economic crisis which might easily attain the proportions of a national catastrophe.

It really is a national catastrophe.

The loss of even one of these multi-billion dollar ships "would be a national catastrophe," he noted.

It is a gangrene preying upon our vitals-anearthquake rumbling under our feet- amineaccumulating material for a national catastrophe.

Transcript (introductory music) Tonight we're going to discuss our ongoing national catastrophe (laughter) known as the presidential election process.

Once again, race in America informs a needless personal and national catastrophe that draws attention to the quotidian inequities that undermine true democracy.

It sank in full view of a crowd gathered to celebrate the ship's first voyage, publicly cementing the Vasa as a national catastrophe.

He really does think the urgent issue today is jobs, jobs, jobs, because the personal catastrophe of unemployment, multiplied a millionfold, becomes a national catastrophe.

We are living at the heart of a national catastrophe, writes the poet Thomas McCarthy (below) in his essay The Years of Forgetting 2006-2011.

National catastrophe You have ministers who are calling ventilators vibrators on national television.