This incident was the single worst catastrophe in the history of military broadcasting.

It was not a single catastrophe, but a parade of them, a concatenation of terrors.

Finally, island populations are typically small and thus more likely to be obliterated by a single catastrophe - hurricane, disease, invading snake.

Lloyd's has said claims from the attacks of Sept. 11 will cost it some $1.92 billion, its biggest loss ever from a single catastrophe.

Although sometimes interpreted as the result of a single catastrophe, the Bernissart finds instead are now interpreted as recording multiple events.

The agreement appeared to have averted, at least temporarily, what has threatened to become the largest single catastrophe of the Bosnian war.

In Cuvier's landmark 1796 paper on living and fossil elephants, he referred to a single catastrophe that destroyed life to be replaced by the current forms.

Finding a whole city and its occupants buried whole in a single catastrophe fills us with excitement.

The accident at Chernobyl was the world's largest single catastrophe of the decade.

He discovered that they had formed over a long period of time, and not the result of a single large catastrophe, as was previously believed.