It's a catastrophe.

Hedging instruments such as so called catastrophe bonds can help insure against the increasing risk posed by natural disasters.

But catastrophe was avoided.

This is a catastrophe.

Experts in both the nuclear and finance industries assured us that new technology had all but eliminated the risk of catastrophe.

The fact that a catastrophe is unlikely to occur is not a rational justification for ignoring the risk of its occurrence.

Investors around the world would take on Japanese GDP risk in return for an expected yield, just as with catastrophe bonds.

The Politics of Cosmic Catastrophe

... and then a catastrophe happened.

Few passengers survived the catastrophe.

Sixty Years of the Palestinian Catastrophe

Unfortunately, few passengers survived the catastrophe.

There was no major new genocidal catastrophe.

This is truly a planned ecological catastrophe .

This mysterious catastrophe dismayed the whole village.

We're on the verge of another catastrophe.

The international community is now charged with thinking about how to reorganize the financial sector and minimize the risk of similar catastrophe in the future.

Why, then, do the most advanced countries, in particular, take on the risk of a mega catastrophe by seeking to create energy from radioactive fission?

We need far more and better catastrophe bonds.

This is a catastrophe waiting to happen again.

The catastrophe became evident on 15 October 2008.

Some worthwhile new risk management proposals include advance commitments for new vaccines, subsidies to drug manufacturers to make their products more affordable, and regionally pooled catastrophe insurance.

Even a tiny probability of global catastrophe is unacceptable.

In 2008, Israel teetered on the edge of catastrophe.

Our trip to Africa is turning into a catastrophe.

Today I saw a film about the Chernobyl catastrophe.

Before the disaster, Japan issued about 1.5 billion in earthquake related catastrophe bonds as a risk management device the debt is canceled if a precisely defined seismic event occurs.

Before the disaster, Japan issued about 1.5 billion in earthquake related catastrophe bonds as a risk management device the debt is canceled if a precisely defined seismic event occurs. This design helped spread the earthquake risk from Japan to foreign investors, who could accept the risk and were enticed by higher expected yields.

Ignoring this reality will lead to failure, if not catastrophe.

After the Kursk catastrophe, Putin was asked what really happened.

Thus, the world economy may dodge yet another potential catastrophe.

Germany also had to overcome the moral catastrophe of Nazism.

Catastrophe hunger in No Man's land. Rohingya kids without food.

Here an exporter faces two types of risk price risk and competitiveness risk.

Environmental Risk

To them, change appears as something irrational, even as a catastrophe.

They also present the alternative to a bailout as a catastrophe.

The second catastrophe followed closely on the heels of the first.

Lisbon was not the only Portuguese city affected by the catastrophe.

Meanwhile, civil war is raging in Syria, accompanied by a humanitarian catastrophe.

The world seemed to be teetering on the brink of nuclear catastrophe.

Responding with military aid will simply turn a catastrophe into an apocalypse.

NEW YORK The Greek catastrophe commands the world s attention for two reasons.

Experts have called the catastrophe the worst air disaster in Russian history.

Russian rescue workers are also working in the area of the catastrophe.