Sentence examples for a calamitous end from inspiring English sources

But that era of mass manufacturing came to a calamitous end in the 1980s as production moved overseas to take advantage of cheaper labour.

CONCORD, N.C., Oct. 14 — As the Bank of America 500 Nascar race came to a calamitous end Saturday night at Lowe's Motor Speedway, only three drivers in the 12-car playoff field emerged with a realistic chance of driving away with the Nextel Cup championship.

But 40 years after Japan's naval ambitions came to calamitous end, a ceremony was held on a ship above the wreckage.

Few economists expect a double-dip recession, in which the economy begins to expand only to contract again, but many fear a protracted period of stagnant growth that could last several years, much like Japan's Lost Decade in the 1990s following the calamitous end to an era of excessive real estate speculation.

As a reborn reporter, my instinct was to visit several Muslim centers -- Gaza, Cairo, Hamburg -- throwing myself into as many intense conversations as I could on the subject of suicide bombings, martyrdom and Sept. 11, especially with men in their 20's and 30's who might have given some thought to what moved their generational cohorts to take this path and stay on it till its calamitous end.

The central bank lowered interest rates following the calamitous end of the technology bubble in 2000, lowered them more after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and then kept them low, even as speculators began to trade homes like dot-com stocks.

If you are prone to superstition, 2012 provides a wealth of apocalyptic fears and calamitous end-of-day scenarios, starting with the ever-popular end-of-the-world Mayan doomsday.

Discovering who they are and where they are and when they were is what triggers the novel's calamitous ending.

Florida (3-1) also took care of the good fortune given it by slippery-fingered Tennessee (2-1), which may have fumbled its hopes for a Southeastern Conference title as well as its national championship aspirations over a calamitous five minutes that ended the first half.

With the second half just minutes old, their captain Thiago Silva ended a calamitous series of errors by passing the ball to Cavani in the penalty area.

But a rocky June turned into a calamitous July, and by the end of the month, Sowood was on the brink of collapse.