"If you can get beyond 30 weeks, and we do that with about 80 percent of quads, the catastrophic outcomes tend to get less," he said.

He warned that firefighters might be unable "to prevent a catastrophic outcome" in the event of a major fire or other emergency in the tunnels.

This is the whole point of insurance: to bear an acceptable cost in order to prevent a catastrophic outcome.

I'm prepared to pay more to avoid the potential catastrophic outcomes of continuing our unsustainable lifestyles.

An introduction teasing the catastrophic outcome of the threat.

On the other hand, unlike the discounted maximum loss even for lower values of expected shortfall does not consider only the single most catastrophic outcome.

The story I was about to hear, I felt certain, was abominable, the outcome undoubtedly catastrophic.

He calls financial regulation a "sideshow" compared with the need to avoid a catastrophic outcome to the eurozone crisis and a European slump.

"However, we never envisioned such a catastrophic outcome."

This is not an acceptable level of safety in an industry where safety failures can have catastrophic outcomes.