Sentence examples for What a calamity from inspiring English sources

Ah what a calamity in the middle!

Your cofounder just quit; what a calamity.

Lawrence H. Summers, director of the president's National Economic Council, and Timothy F. Geithner, the Treasury secretary, belong to the same club of men and women who have sent our economy into a tailspin and are still looking for ways to squeeze a profit for themselves and their friends out of what is a calamity for millions of Americans.

So far, everybody seems super-respectful about the spin-off of Time Inc from Time Warner, eerily unmindful of what an astounding calamity the process has been.

"We are on the brink of what could be a calamity," he said.

What is currently a calamity for the people of Syria could worsen and become a conflagration across the Middle East".

Managing risk involves making upfront investments in resistant infrastructure, urban planning, and training, he explained; disaster management is what comes after a calamity.

What a disappointment to all those waiting for calamity in the press gallery above, poison pens poised.

But it is all what Lord Justice Leveson would call "a calamity".

Last weekend, he, along with his brother Chris, his parents and friends, organized a fund-raising walk at the National Mall — one family's effort to offer help in the face of what many Greeks see as a calamity.

"If there is a possibility of a political strategy to have avoided what turned out to be a calamity, would it have been a sensible idea to have at least tried it?" The SNP MP Stephen Gethins, a member of the committee, said it was clear that many lessons that should have been learned in the aftermath of the 2003 Iraq invasion had not been fully heeded.