prevent a catastrophe

And now they will try to prevent a catastrophe on both ends."

He said he had been forced to agree to the compromise to prevent a catastrophe.

In his belief, the multi-national companies can only be controlled by global laws to prevent a catastrophe.

It was programmed to prevent a catastrophe and safeguarding human life on board had the highest priority.

The private sector created the recession; the public sector prevented a catastrophe.

Who knows whether we shan't arrive in time to prevent a catastrophe."

Prevent a catastrophe, create a localized time warp!

Only Leon's quick thinking and powerful, steadying hands on the reins prevented a catastrophe.

But if worse comes to worst"her face seemed to pale in the moonlight"you must do what you have to, to prevent a catastrophe."

The government did not invest in the levees, the communications and the roads and other infrastructure to prevent a catastrophe.

When he seems to fail to prevent a catastrophe or even to desire a tragedy, he can seem callous and cruel.

EOD developed render safe procedures on-site to prevent a catastrophe.

We took action then because we felt that the world situation was entering a dangerous phase, in which extraordinary efforts were required to prevent a catastrophe.

By the time this nuclear nightmare catches the world's attention, it maybe too late to prevent a catastrophe that could do irreparable human, economic and environmental damage.

The U.N. has flown emergency food supplies into Ethiopia to try to prevent a catastrophe.

Only Pucky's shrill outcry prevented a catastrophe.

'Additional Response Time' "All we can do to prevent a catastrophe in Florida needs to be done," the Governor said.

Erich Kästner, looking back in 1946, described him as the "little fat Berliner" who wanted to "prevent a catastrophe with his typewriter".

The ideologist said that in order to "prevent a catastrophe" in the Soviet Union it was necessary "to transform the impending explosion into a controlled reaction."

Its premise is that a group of adventurers are traveling north to the Northern Capital (a.k.a. Hameln) to prevent a catastrophe.

The US, UN, and other donors attempted to mount a coordinated international relief effort in both north and south Sudan to prevent a catastrophe.

NATO's legal justification will be the same as it was in October, the last time bombing was threatened: to prevent a catastrophe in Kosovo.

Unlike some of the more optimistic white participants, Mr. Smith does not believe initiatives like the Mamelodi encounter will prevent a catastrophe in South Africa.

Asked what NATO, operating only from the air, could do to prevent a catastrophe, Mr. Holbrooke went silent and shrugged.

Only by releasing gas from the aft bags and dumping the remaining forward ballast prevented a catastrophe, but as the rear came down it smashed the tail fin into the ground.