Sentence examples for a calamitous year from inspiring English sources

The discussion has rumbled since 1996, a calamitous year when 15 people died -- the highest annual death toll on Everest -- while 98 people reached the summit, according to figures from EverestNews.com, an Ohio-based Web site.

The vote marks a new low point for Mr Chen in a calamitous year that has seen his wife charged with corruption, his approval rating slip below 20% and many of his most powerful overseas supporters in the US turn their backs on him.

In the six years leading up to that calamitous year they had seen a sultan deposed and their immense and immensely inefficient army battered.

Niny was born near there in the calamitous year when Dr. Clemenceau was Mayor of Montmartre.

That, you may recall, was the calamitous year they let Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood present The Brits.

Unlike some Brotherhood leaders, Mr. Beltagy is willing to concede some errors by Mr. Morsi, who often seemed indifferent to police repression of non-Islamist protesters during his calamitous year in power.

After chasing LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh four years ago, Chicago instead ended up signing two-time all-star forward Carlos Boozer to a calamitous five-year, $75 million contract.

However, Coe hopes to perform the equivalent of a hard reset on a calamitous few years for athletics by introducing a series of governance reforms – including some that are surprisingly radical in places.

5. Opening heroin consumption rooms We have spent nearly 50 calamitous years treating drug addiction as a criminal justice matter rather than a social and medical problem.

The devastation wrought by the calamitous years of 1914-1945 dealt a fatal blow to the country's capacity to perform this global management role.

This does not inhibit the biography, but it does make it more difficult for him to stand in the shoes of the millions of Germans who were captivated, entranced and fascinated by him.Inevitably, in a book which covers the ten most calamitous years in world history in more than 800 pages of text, there are gaps.