The most catastrophic fall will be in Estonia, which is set to lose more than a third of its population in the next 50 years.

Much of the manufacturing sector was on the verge of total collapse, with a catastrophic fall in the level of industrial production.

The unleashing of the anger against the self causes a catastrophic fall in self-esteem.

The rapid rise of Jiang Qing - rather than her still more sudden and catastrophic fall - were clearly lessons to Elena.

The result, as shown in figure 4.2, was a catastrophic fall in capital inflow and an inability to control all outflows.

Bumper rice crops in the late 1920s, however, combined with rice imports to produce a catastrophic fall in rice prices in 1930-1.

Today, conversely, Japan is extending its hand to avert the potentially catastrophic free fall of a failing but militarily threatening Communist government.

It is a catastrophic fall, which means eternal ruin.

The Government still won the vote by 281 to 200, but the catastrophic fall in the Government's majority put great pressure on it.

(Lords of Essaence ) Details regarding this age have been left deliberately vague, with allusions to a galaxy-spanning empire's rise, corruption, and catastrophic fall.