Sentence examples similar to a calamitous project from inspiring English sources

It seemed a calamitous risk for a project of this scale to exist at a site where the supply of water was not assured.

John Prescott's regional fire control project was a calamitous failure, yet the real lessons have still not been learned and the present government is making the same mistakes.

But I actually had two distinct projects going at once: a story about a calamitous earthquake in the Middle East, and one about an infidelity.

It is a calamitous desire.

Of course, that followed a calamitous decline.

"It's a calamitous mess.

If so, it was a calamitous mistake.

It was a calamitous miscalculation for Syria and for Turkey.

Aid workers feared a calamitous battle for the city.

Baghdad's hospitals were in a calamitous state.

England finished on a high after a calamitous start.