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Перевод: catastrophic

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катастрофический

Тезаурус:

1. The catastrophic effects of the most recent drought can be gauged fact that in 1967 the country imported over 30 per cent of its food requirements and yet only seven years later this figure had risen to a colossal 96.5 per cent in what is nominally an agrarian economy.
2. The islands were well-known for their beauty to the passengers of the steamships passing up and down the Straits, but few of those who leant on their ship's rail on sultry moonlit evenings, gazing out at the serene islands could ever have conceived that they were to be the site of some of the most catastrophic events that the world has ever seen.
3. Statistics are cited to prove the depth of popular misery: falling real wages, rising unemployment, a catastrophic drop in production, a general collapse of living standards.
4. However, the effect has been cathartic rather than catastrophic.
5. But while Mr Smith campaigned well, he may in hindsight come to be blamed for Labour's catastrophic defeat.
6. This is a major contribution to the "Greenhouse Effect" with its catastrophic influence on the earth's climate.
7. They were fighting for seats in a body - the Strasbourg parliament - which is the assembly of the European Community, of which they strongly disapprove. 1992 and the European Single Market would be "disastrous, catastrophic", an "ideological bluff" devised by deceitful politicians, declared a German MEP at the Paris conference.
8. It is the catastrophic slippage in public respect which blows the minds of the apparatus.
9. The theory, articulated formally by Malinowski (1954), states that these practices constitute a form of magical insurance policy against normal catastrophic events, such as accidents, sickness, hunting failure or famine.
10. Conservationists have for many years been predicting the catastrophic consequences of a major oil spill in Arctic or Antarctic seas, and in early 1989, their worst fears were realised.
11. A blossoming of the arts followed the rebuilding of Cuzco after the catastrophic earthquake of 1650, partly due to the arrival of Bishop Manuel de Mollinedo y Angulo.
12. Short of a catastrophic breakdown, the chances of that happening were close to zero even before the race started, because Koch is determined to freeze out Conner and make the final an all America Foundation affair.
13. In fact the leisure facility is a minefield of safety, legal, and operational problems that, unless addressed in a professional manner, can cause catastrophic consequences.