He showed that famine was not just a consequence of nature, but also an avoidable economic and political catastrophe.

In the funny way history works, an era of civic and political catastrophe was a boom time for art.

The master political manager of their time and country had committed, at least to paper, a major political catastrophe.

History shows that Jerusalem has always become more important to a people after they have lost it and after political catastrophe.

But while some experts warned of political and environmental catastrophe, others disputed whether growth would necessarily lead to disaster.

He argued she was the best candidate the party had to avoid a political catastrophe this November.

If, by some political catastrophe, government social services were abolished, they would soon have to be recreated in private form.

Look, there's a political and environmental catastrophe happening out there.

I look upon it as a political catastrophe.

It would be a political catastrophe, like a tornado going right through the Kremlin.