Sentence examples for a calamity at from inspiring English sources

Sports pages were full of news about Kazuhiro Kokubo, the Japanese snowboarder whose dress sense — generic snowboarder scruff, plus dreadlocks — was considered such a calamity at home that officials reprimanded and then banned him from participating in the opening ceremony.

Andy Hornby, the former head of HBOS who caused such a calamity at the bank, yesterday became the chief executive of Boots with a salary and bonus likely to be over £1m per year.

Three years later, Mr. Miller took up the directing reins for the dark and rather more grown-up sequel, which tracks Babe (voiced by E. G. DAILY) as he and the farmer's wife (MAGDA SZUBANSKI) travel to a Dickensian city following a calamity at the farm.

There's even a calamity at the end of the second act, followed by a re-energised return to the fray when Sandra and her husband psyche themselves up by singing along to Van Morrison's Gloria on a car stereo.

Such a calamity would at least free up money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema).

A calamity last week at the Siachen Glacier — more than 100 Pakistan soldiers were killed in an avalanche — highlights the need for both sides to bring their troops home from that remote border.

The widespread assumption in the Westminster village that he will be a calamity might, at least in the short term, work to his advantage if he can surprise expectations on the upside in his early weeks in the role.

He started to show signs of delirium tremens in late April, including paranoid delusions, and Sarah, fearing that a calamity was at hand, admitted him to the Melbourne Hospital on 1 May to be kept under restraint.

He says that, if Mr Murphy continues in office, the result will be a further calamity at the Holyrood elections next year - and the "disappearance" of the party.

The fire was an enormous calamity at the time, but the rebuilding laid the groundwork for modern Chicago.

Quai Branly, the museum Jean Nouvel recently designed in Paris for this same purpose, is in many ways a calamity, but it at least began from the serious premise that devising such a building in a Western capital during the 21st century is a complex issue demanding careful consideration.