Fiascos

Usage examples of disasters.

There was precedent for such disasters, stories of races that had played with fire and had burned for it.

What gruesome irony that even the greatest disasters can create opportunities for decent people.

Ravna had seen pictures of such disasters, but they had always seemed an improbable thing.

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all -- no one's around to write horror stories.

Honestly, if we're in anything like most past disasters, we'll come out of it in another day or two.

It does not care, and even with all our science there are some disasters that we can not avert.

Interstellar political or natural disasters were not added to the emotional burdens already suffered by populations.

Not planted, but no sign of natural disasters or deaths accidental or otherwise.

Still, I was in a state of considerable apprehension, my mind continuing to dredge up, in increasingly horrific variety, all the disasters and accidents to which horses are prone.

By the time the films of the Parapsychic Center's assistance had been widely aired, with a few choice comments on how the Center operated to forestall major disasters, the threatened legal action against the Talents was withdrawn.

Daffyd said with a wistful sigh, thinking all kinds of disasters, of a minor sort, to befall the dour New Englander on his way down the aisle to his own office.

Very often their visions allowed the future to be altered and disasters to be averted.

Afterward, to avoid such disasters, the US switched to a mix of oxygen with just enough nitrogen to prevent explosive fires.

To be sure, naval units met with disasters of all kinds, causing the death of many or all those aboard the stricken vessel.

But it's really named after them-the Powers That Be that move us from A to B or Z or wherever they gotta plug holes or clean up disasters or fight wars.