The Revolution opened the way for cataclysmic change in Persia, heralding the modern era.

With a long history of cataclysmic, often violent change, Chinese society is perhaps more adaptable than most.

PRINCETON Today, the world is threatened with a repeat of the 2008 financial meltdown but on an even more cataclysmic scale.

The cataclysmic potential of such a conflict makes it essential to limit and eventually eliminate this leftover from the Cold War.

The first, following the collapse of the USSR, was almost cataclysmic nothing in the shops, the country in bankruptcy, all savings lost.

Palestine from the Jordan River to the coast should be handed to Israel so that the world can end with a cataclysmic Christian triumph.

He may have had the idea for the final cataclysmic conflagration while fighting in the 1848 1849 revolution in Dresden alongside the Russian anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin.

In fact, it was cataclysmic climate change which transformed a lush, green Sahara into a harsh desert that triggered the emergence of such lifestyles in East Africa 5,000 years ago.

Depending on the objective and the means employed, the effects of such attacks may range from soft kills of enemy weapon or sensor systems to cataclysmic disruptions of nationwide power grids.

But what is true of international diplomacy that a series of seemingly reasonable decisions can have cataclysmic consequences if no one bothers to figure out the endgame is equally true of international finance.

The name is also used for the surrounding island group comprising the remnants of a much larger island of three volcanic peaks which was obliterated in a cataclysmic 1883 eruption, unleashing huge tsunamis (killing more than 36,000 people) and destroying over two thirds of the island.