Sentence examples for a calamitous state from inspiring English sources

Baghdad's hospitals were in a calamitous state.

With Colorado's economy improving, taxpayers will likely get their first TABOR refund since 2005, even as a calamitous state budget crisis looms and the roads and schools crumble.

Signs of a Calamity Clues to the calamitous state of the country can be found even in recent articles tucked into Mr. Mugabe's mouthpiece, The Herald, the only daily newspaper he has allowed to keep publishing.

In a little brick-walled taverna in Athens, over a lunch of Cretan salad and stuffed grape leaves, a Greek journalist named Aris Hadjigeorgiou was holding forth one day in late November about the calamitous state of his city and country as only a veteran metropolitan reporter could.

To read: The New York Times' Russell Shorto interviews Greeks about everyday life in a crippled country: In a little brick-walled taverna in Athens, over a lunch of Cretan salad and stuffed grape leaves, a Greek journalist named Aris Hadjigeorgiou was holding forth one day in late November about the calamitous state of his city and country as only a veteran metropolitan reporter could.

His stance is somewhat understandable, given the calamitous state of the Knicks.

In its modest fashion, Film Comment Selects helps offset the calamitous state of foreign-language film distribution by highlighting work that hasn't (yet) inspired the love and guts it takes to put a subtitled movie in American theaters.

So how should we take the news that Andreessen Horowitz, set up by two of the figures behind the Netscape browser – that "web thing" which helped put newspapers in the calamitous state they're mostly in – is investing $50m in Buzzfeed, the online publisher?

It was a stirring ending to a World Thoroughbred Championship day that had a calamitous start.

Many states are now in a calamitous financial situation.

As California continues to endure a calamitous lack of water from the sky, the state could, for the first time, start to regulate water drawn from the ground.