Betekenis van:
catastrophic

catastrophic
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
    • extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin
    "a catastrophic depression"
    "catastrophic illness"

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    1. The consequence of a wrong translation can sometimes be catastrophic.
    2. You need to look at things from a different angle, it's not as catastrophic as you think.
    3. Ups and downs must be expected; but even in the face of catastrophic loss and sorrow, I like to think that at bottom I can't not be all right: I read the lines as they were written.
    4. high mortality of animals caused by health or catastrophic circumstances;
    5. Closure would be catastrophic for the local economy.
    6. catastrophic consequence’ means fatalities and/or multiple severe injuries and/or major damages to the environment resulting from an accident;
    7. reduction of the risk of catastrophic accidents, explosions, fires, etc. and removal of the causes of serious or frequent accidents,
    8. Europe is taking measures to address global warming and to prevent possibly catastrophic changes to the climate [23] [24].
    9. The prices of agricultural inputs such as fertilisers, pesticides, feed and fuel have continued to rise in 2009, which has had a catastrophic impact on farmers’ living standards.
    10. Third, given its catastrophic financial situation and the lack of arm’s length security, HSY would not have been able to raise these loans from the private sector.
    11. The evidence was the catastrophic effects of the heavy frosts on the survival of trees of these origins, in particular, in the years 1956, 1963 and 1985.
    12. the reinsurance undertaking shall ensure that the assets are diversified and adequately spread and allow the undertaking to respond adequately to changing economic circumstances, in particular developments in the financial markets and real estate markets or major catastrophic events.
    13. The above findings, and in particular the 26 % negative profitability, indeed clearly suggest that the Community industry’s ability to raise capital, either from external providers of finance or parent companies, is heavily hampered by its catastrophic financial situation.
    14. First, these loans were granted from the end of 1999 onwards, when HSY’s financial situation was catastrophic and raised the risk of the revocation of the company’s operating licence.
    15. The aircraft systems, equipment and associated appliances, considered separately and in relation to each other, must be designed such that any catastrophic failure condition does not result from a single failure not shown to be extremely improbable and an inverse relationship must exist between the probability of a failure condition and the severity of its effect on the aircraft and its occupants.