Sentence examples for a big calamity from inspiring English sources

"We need price support or there's going to be a big calamity soon".

The degree of schadenfreude with which America's belated and confused response to Hurricane Katrina has been received, especially in Europe, points to the exposed nerve: small government has not been able to cope competently with a big calamity; a superpower abroad has been shown to have clay feet at home.

They no longer look like a former or potential dynasty, but a big budget calamity that managed to put together one triumphant playoff run in 2009 and has been leaking oil ever since.

The European Commission's index of consumer confidence fell in November for the fifth month in a row.Now an even bigger calamity is looking likelier.

This signifies genocide to people here, but translates literally as "the big calamity".

Tusk takes the view that Brexit would be a disaster for Britain, but an even bigger calamity for the EU as a whole.

In the great financial crisis, all the major central banks of the western world had to intervene heavily in markets to prevent an even bigger calamity.

Devising ways to quarantine the influence of money keeps legions of lawyers and ethicists busy, and the price of neglecting this job has been a subtext of the big calamities of recent years.

Honestly, it is hard to imagine a bigger sporting calamity than the Mets, now that their overpaid and hotheaded closer, Francisco Rodriguez, has knocked himself out for the year by allegedly trying to knock someone else out.

But the experts stress that it is the sum of a number of issues all happening at once rather than one or two big calamities that will test society's ability to cope.

Aside from the tragedy that occurs when people hand out their self-esteem one free hug at a time, bigger calamities can be modelled with the Social Force model.