Sentence examples for a calamity of from inspiring English sources

In a follow-up blog post he writes:A calamity of the proportions we are talking about here would make it very hard to sustain credibility, and the UK government would have had to call on every ounce of its credibility reserve.I don't know what this means.

A calamity of egos, perhaps?

"We were looking at a calamity of unknown proportions".

A calamity of this nature had long been predicted.

"You would have had a calamity of biblical proportions," Walle said.

The Australian consulate was meagerly staffed for a calamity of this scale.

But it was also a calamity for thousands of pets left behind.

"It's taking advantage of a calamity to extract a benefit".

"Panic and alarm in the face of a calamity are signs of weakness and defeat — let's come out of that," he said.

But it is already clear that, even in the absence of a calamity, the direction of globalisation will change.

We met at a natural calamity of greater proportions -- an earthquake -- so maybe there's some kind of nasty symmetry to this.