The emperor is heaven's ambassador on earth, and natural catastrophes such as floods and droughts are Heaven's way of warning the emperor to examine his personal conduct and correct his mistakes.
We've even walked ourselves back from the edge of some global conflicts and catastrophes.
The pledges that countries are making to battle climate change would still allow the world to heat up by more than 6 degrees Fahrenheit, a new analysis shows, a level that scientists say is likely to produce catastrophes ranging from food shortages to widespread extinctions of plant and animal life.
These CV catastrophes could explain why a third have applied for five roles without a response and one in ten have applied for more than 50 jobs and never heard back.
They can feel death, earthquakes and other catastrophes in advance.
In the food processing sector, operators are ruined by becoming too dependent on one customer — who then cancels their supply contract; or they crash thanks to exposure to major commodity price swings; or occasionally they cease trading owing to factory fires or similar catastrophes.
Indeed, the '90s were a decade of catastrophes that didn't happen.
George Orwell (1903 - 1950), Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham" War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
