Business men were appealed to to help avert the further catastrophes which a Democratic Administration would surely inflict.
It was a dark hour to the patient and patriotic Lincoln, who had never dreamed that such catastrophescould be the result of his reluctant decision, in early April, 1861, to hold Fort Sumter.
Catastrophes have indeed been supposed, and they are an easy way of getting out of the difficulty; but unfortunately, they are not supported by evidence.
She proceeds slowly step by step, and this with occasional local catastrophes will remove all our difficulties.
That is what precipitates violence, that is what renders social co-operation impossible, that is what makes catastrophes the method of change.
Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan.
On the contrary, it is very conceivable that catastrophes may be part and parcel of uniformity.
These catastrophes were made the object of special study in Germany and Switzerland, where Agassiz was in the midst of his epoch-making discourses on the glacial period.
It has been preceded by other wars at intervals of every few years, and war itself is only one of a series of catastrophes and calamities that splash the human chronicle with innocent blood.
Physical crises are transformed into catastrophes of the soul, and the pressure of the blood and its beating waves are spiritualized into the soft melancholy and sweet dreams from which his verses rise like tender buds.
Thus it is possible to name the catastrophes and to set the milestones of his misfortunes.
The fortunes of the Carthaginians had in their turn considerably improved owing to the catastrophes I have described.
The host, an elderly man much esteemed in the district for his knowledge, went on to describe many such catastrophes which he himself had witnessed.
The very earthquake which shakes the earth to its center and shatters cities into ruin, prevents by that very concussion the graver catastrophes which bury continents out of sight.
Thus, without any counterpoise, the imperial government consisted in a single will which was intermittent, fluctuating, and a perpetual source of troubles and catastrophes to France.
They are connected with catastrophes human memory will forever retain.
The brooms of these spectres can be heard under these vaults, and the enormous fetidness of social catastrophes is breathed there.
To-day, the victories of Christian emancipation have come, to contrast with the catastrophes provoked by impenitent despotism.
According to Buckland, the last of these great catastrophes was the Quaternary or drift period, and this period was, by him and by many others since, associated with the Noachian Deluge.
The catastropheswere supernatural; the times of quiet were natural.
Such catastrophes were supposed to be followed by periods of quiet, during which the new earth was repeopled, by direct act of creation, with new forms of life adapted to the new conditions.
Jeremiah watched and shared the prolonged agony and overwhelming catastrophes of the last days of the Jewish monarchy, and ever and anon raised his voice to declare that his fellow-countrymen suffered, not as martyrs, but as criminals.
Fournet, but they are valuable, both to the miner and geologist, as showing how the supposed signs of violent catastrophes may be the monuments, not of one paroxysmal shock, but of reiterated movements.
Catastrophes are brought about by the ruling classes.
Indeed, as a mere matter of probabilities, it may be truly said that it would be exceedingly unlikely that catastrophes such as the one which may have occurred in this case would fail to happen at comparatively short intervals of time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "catastrophes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
