The Napoleonic Wars were particularly disastrous.

The river is prone to catastrophic flooding in spring when the Himalayan snows melt.

Over the past 25 years, continuous mine infestation had created a catastrophic situation there.

William of Tyre wrote that there was no battle more disastrous than this.

You need to look at things from a different angle, it's not as catastrophic as you think.

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The droughts of 1920 and 1921, as well as the 1921 famine, worsened the disaster still further.

This perception was the result of disastrous Italian offensives against Egypt and the performance of the army in the Greco Italian War.

The city, located on an island in a massive flood zone, suffered catastrophic damage.

Tragic loss, even not knowing her, seeing a fellow photographer have a tragic death is horrible.

The situation in the prisons was disastrous torture, rape, ill treatment, and hellish living conditions were common.

And he said, This genetic resource, and I'll never forget the words stands between us and catastrophic starvation on a scale we cannot imagine.

The military campaign carried out against the dahalo in the bush of the great south in June and July 2012 was a disaster.

We're talking about a society that is retreating into depression and disassociation when we are potentially confronting the next great catastrophic climate shift.

Whatever portions of this ecosystem that the dams don t submerge are certain to be disrupted in potentially disastrous ways.

In the face of a disastrous humanitarian situation, widespread poverty, and persisting armed conflict, isolation from the Internet could be disastrous.

Examples of humanitarian intervention illustrate, that in some cases intervention can lead to disastrous results, as in Srebrenica and Somalia.

There exists overwhelming evidence showing that impacts of large objects with dimensions in the order of kilometres (km) have had catastrophic consequences in the past.

And we've reached that time. We cannot afford to underestimate this problem. If we face irreversible and catastrophic consequences, we must act, and we must act decisively.

The only thing that could come to an end is the world s attention and engagement in Afghanistan, which could well lead to catastrophic consequences.

In this volatile environment, reverting to a confrontational relationship with Israel would be extremely dangerous, inviting the risk of another disastrous war.

If that growth is not achieved in an environmentally sustainable way, its effects on poverty and human well being will be disastrous.

Are we in fact putting ourselves in a situation where we're coming too close to thresholds that could lead to deleterious and very undesired, if now catastrophic, change for human development?

The situation in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, Syria, has reached catastrophic levels, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

It welcomed the Secretary General's report in document A 60 80 but wondered why it overlooked the catastrophic effects of foreign occupation and armed conflict on social development.

Being subservient to American power, as Japan has been since 1945, was the inevitable consequence of a catastrophic war. Most Japanese can live with that.

This would be disastrous for Europe s economic recovery, as the ECB would have no choice but to slam down hard on the monetary brakes.

A new split up and down the hemisphere, engineered by a leader awash in oil money, would prove far more disastrous.

It posits that anthropocentrism and several other widely accepted modern ideas are actually cultural myths and that global civilization is enacting these myths with catastrophic consequences.

Digging of a tunnel or trench in which to dump this waste was under way, presenting the same threat of catastrophic ecological consequences as described in the Special Committee's report last year.

It was decades before the term black hole was coined and people realized that black holes are real astrophysical objects in fact they're the death state of very massive stars that collapse catastrophically at the end of their lifetime.

Proof of this is the upsurge in acts of violence, sometimes barbaric in nature, which could long doom this country to instability, the consequences of which could be catastrophic for the entire region.

In the emerging multipolar world, characterized by sovereignty concerns and strategic competition, progress toward resolving global issues will be more difficult than ever with potentially devastating consequences.

Vulnerable countries fought hard for the goal of 1.5 C over pre industrial levels, after which scientists fear the consequences of climate change could become catastrophic.

The Bengal famine of 1770 (Bengali ৭৬ এর মন বন তর, Chhiattōrer monnōntór lit The Famine of '76 ) was a catastrophic famine between 1769 and 1773 (1176 to 1180 in the Bengali calendar) that affected the lower Gangetic plain of India.

After a disastrous qualifying session leaving only one 908 in the top ten, they quickly got to the front of the field during the first laps, and soon were running 1 2 3 after the R18s were running into technical issues.

Increasing public awareness The steady increase in beekeeper migration (for pollination service on agricultural crops) has masked the issue of pollinator decline from much public awareness, however sudden blocks to such migration could have catastrophic results on the global food supply.

To the south of Holland, in Zeeland, and to the north, in Frisia, this development led to catastrophic storm floods literally washing away entire regions, as the peat layer disintegrated or became detached and was carried away by the flood water.

In short, by building effective and indispensable international institutions and strategic partnerships, we did not just avoid another catastrophic world war we ultimately ended the Cold War and lifted global living standards for hundreds of millions of people.

After a catastrophic car accident that left him in a coma, Simon Lewis found ways to recover physically and mentally beyond all expectations. At the INK Conference he tells how this remarkable story led him to concern over all threats to consciousness, and how to overcome them.

We also acknowledge that the consequences of an airplane crash are liable to be far more catastrophic than, say, those of a cyclist clipping a curb on his way home from the shops. Accordingly, designing and manufacturing an airplane is many times more demanding and thorough than designing and assembling a bicycle is.

If Iran decides to engage the international community with concrete confidence building measures at the next round of multilateral talks, Erdoğan will take much of the credit for giving diplomacy a last chance and quite possibly for averting a disastrous military confrontation in the Middle East.

Now, here's another thing that happens, which is what I call sometimes Terminal 5 syndrome, which is that big, expensive things get big, highly intelligent attention, and they're great, and Terminal 5 is absolutely magnificent, until you get down to the small detail, the usability, which is the signage, which is catastrophic.

The series of international failures in this conflict so far is inexcusable. Each subsequent breakdown in negotiations, including the Geneva talks, has not only led away from peace, but has also contributed to calamitous developments, including the resurgence of extremist terrorism and the emergence of the Islamic State.