| Even catastrophies cannot make us change our habits, our culture. |
| Only recently emerging from a violent political crisis, Haiti is suffering the casualties of several natural catastrophies. |
| Not unlike the man-made violence of war and civil strife, the number of natural catastrophies of all kinds seems to be on the rise. |
| However, registration of accidents is limited to fatalities and other catastrophies. |
| In the midst of one of the worst catastrophies of the 20th Century, one man had the courage to stand up and act on his convictions while we all buried our heads in the sand. |
| Often we feel helpless when confronted with the human and environmental catastrophies caused by a few powerful ones and suffered generally by the more disadvantaged. |
