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Think of nuclear fission: it generates useful energy but if it runs out of control you get a cataclysmic explosion.

A bloodline that, if it were genuine, would be cataclysmic for the traditional Christian religions of the world.

Together these data make it clear that cataclysmic impact as a cause of mass extinction was the exception, not the rule.

A default would be a cataclysmic event for the U. S. economy, its financial markets and, probably, for the rest of the world.

It is now almost a year since a cataclysmic week for quantitative funds heralded the beginning of the credit crisis.

During Earth's opening act, space debris and cataclysmic volcanic upheavals destroyed the evidence, like an arsonist torching his tracks.

The kind of cataclysmic event my generation has learnt to think belongs only in the history books.

"The cataclysmic events took place in the fall of 2008 and the early months of 2009, " Roger Altman, the chairman of Evercore, said to me.

After all, Islamic resistance to westernization is not a new phenomenon, though it has taken on a new and potentially cataclysmic dimension.

As the next President of Haiti, Martelly will have to tackle the cataclysmic aftereffects of the earthquake.

Such dilemmas might be pondered one day by future humans living on a planet orbiting a cataclysmic variable binary star system.

They had not gone far when Thaurissan's fury resulted in a spell of cataclysmic proportions.

While cataclysmic for the domestic industry, the Last Supper also had a substantial effect on transatlantic trade.

"2012" revolves around cataclysmic events that strike the Earth just as the Mayan calendar is coming to a close.

Less than four years later, as I wrote these words, the prospects of Chiang had undergone a cataclysmic change.

Why should GMP INSPECTION sometimes turn into a PAINFUL and CATACLYSMIC event ?

The last full day of trading for this cataclysmic year saw indices in Asia close practically flat as 2008 draws to a close.

Tambora started to grumble noticeably in 1812, building up to a cataclysmic eruption in April 1815.

It's almost like you're saying - in a post-cataclysmic world you're kind of reduced to the cave man state, and. . . What's the deal there?

My diminutive friend, you force me into a cataclysmic decision.

Hurricane Katrina has quieted the jazz capital with its cataclysmic floods.

Like many analysts, France Television reporter and former Washington correspondent Ulysse Gosset, describes the changes as cataclysmic.

slamming into the island chain with a cataclysmic force never before witnessed.

Daniel Griswold, at the Cato Institute, said: "This bill is not cataclysmic but could pass and would damage trade ties. "

The Sleeper is a huge human hero armed with ancient weapon, waiting for the final cataclysmic battle that will decide the fate of the world.

In fact, Fukuyama never suggested that the "end of history" entailed the cessation of extreme violence or cataclysmic events.

If, say, the Western Hemisphere were sterilized, there would soon be a cataclysmic spiritual crisis.

One can readily trace the disappearance of dinosaurs to a major cataclysmic event .

The prediction or expectation of cataclysmic upheaval, as in political or social developments.

My senior year was a strange combination of interesting college life and cataclysmic personal and political events.

Those old predictions are no longer viable, and the cataclysmic earth changes are no longer necessary.

We always trace the disappearance of dinosaurs to a major cataclysmic event.

A software project that has a consistently increasing earned value profile is certain to have a pending cataclysmic regression.

Cataclysmic variables involve gas falling from a large star onto an accretion disk surrounding a massive but compact white dwarf star.

Great changes in the way that the economy was regulated and managed were often provoked by cataclysmic upheaval.

Over the course of 50 years, three cataclysmic conflicts changed the face of China.

Could they be the leakage of gravitational waves caused by the cataclysmic collisions of supermassive black holes before the Big Bang?

It was, he writes, "a cataclysmic financial decision. "

Together, these forces proved cataclysmic.

Some of the worlds cataclysmic disasters are associated with climate change, such as floods and massive landslides.

It is said that there are increased cataclysmic type occurrences when these cycles happen.

Many today believe that the Zeta Reticuli messages actually refer to the Mayan calendar's cataclysmic event of 2012.

That was why the numbers for industrial production looked so cataclysmic earlier this year.

are a type of cataclysmic variable star system.

No event, no matter how cataclysmic, will have the same effect on everyone.

Iceland increased its benchmark interest rate for the first time since its cataclysmic bank crash of 2008.

We don't think we can survive these cataclysmic emotions or take on the tasks now required of us, but we do.

Pole shifts are a cataclysmic inversion of the planet's axis of rotation, up to 180 degrees;

Application in Parameter Estimation of Nonlinear System Based Upon Improved Genetic Algorithms of Cataclysmic Mutation

Spectroscopy around and Ca II Triplet of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects

The End of Sri Lanka's Cataclysmic Civil War