This is the largest metropolitan area disaster in decades, and it was not a natural disaster it was a disaster of engineering.

It's a catastrophe.

... and then a catastrophe happened.

Ending Child Marriage

Sami's own life is a complete disaster.

Mutant Chernobyl Style

We are facing a violent crisis.

We are facing a violent crisis.

As a result, the likelihood of another disaster on the scale of Fukushima has been reduced.

America s Debt Ceiling Debacle

A new catastrophe befalls the Arab world.

Indian Ocean tsunami

We face an analogous situation today.

That's a tragedy for those populations, but it's also a tragedy for the people eating them because they don't know that that's toxic meat.

And yet Europe is facing a calamity.

Changes everything.

The war started as a total disaster for Romania.

The spread of disease was a major secondary disaster.

Aftermath The battle was a disaster for the Japanese.

For Iran and its Hezbollah clients, the fall of Assad would be nothing short of a calamity one with far reaching consequences.

It is more than a tragedy it is a major disaster in every possible meaning of the word. It is a disaster unprecedented in the annals of human history.

The recent tsunami, caused by an earthquake, was an unprecedented natural disaster with extensive and devastating effects.

Three draft resolutions have been submitted for action today the first on the South Asian earthquake disaster (A 60 L.18), the second on the Chernobyl disaster (A 60 L.19) and the third on the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster (A 60 L.20).

We're either going to have an absolutely unmitigated catastrophe of this oil leak in the Gulf, or we will make the moment we need out of this, as many people have noted today.

Greed, selfishness and irrationality will visit catastrophe upon us, from which those who refuse to accept a different world born of solidarity and justice will not be spared.

Fast and resolute mitigating action is needed to avoid national disaster.

The United Nations was itself born out of calamity.

But not proceeding would also have been a disaster.

None of this implies a disaster for developing countries.

That would be nothing short of disastrous.

The birthday of Bashar, from Kuwait, coincides with the Chernobyl disaster.

The flood disaster also inundated the country's estimated 3,000 crocodile farms.

After the Hillsborough disaster there was a government review of stadium safety.

The resulting attack on Tangier, led by Henry, was a debacle.

Other efforts to raise international awareness on Chernobyl

In some cases the effects could be catastrophic.

The threat of avian influenza and other infectious diseases is far from over, and the possibility of the outbreak of a large scale pandemic still exists.

The great movement of solidarity that it has generated is unprecedented.

But look, it can't AIDS, Iran Contra, the Challenger disaster, Chernobyl.

Fukushima has presented the world with a far reaching, fundamental choice.

All of this amounted to a human and economic disaster in the making.

They portray the burn as a disaster and the fight against it as a war story.

Unfortunately, they are not just kicking the can down the road, but pushing a snowball down a mountain.

The disaster has been described as the deadliest disasters in modern maritime history.

Officially we have a catastrophe in Egypt whether in Sinai or Aswan.