| 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. |
| Only recently emerging from a violent political crisis, Haiti is suffering the casualties of several natural catastrophies. |
| Warning signals can be tallied in the multiplication of conflicts, intolerance, exclusion, the most abject poverty and ecological catastrophies. |
| Many of the problems are far from being well understood, and much more research is needed if appropriate solutions are to be found which will at the very least help us to avoid catastrophies. |
| His fear of an over-undustrialised world is illustrated by four supersonic jets, messengers of future catastrophies. |
