Sentence examples for a source of calamity from inspiring English sources

Macaulay's exceptional gifts of mind were never, as they have been for many men of genius, a source of calamity or mental anguish.

If the source of calamity lies with tumbling house prices or weaknesses in particular financial institutions, such as monoline insurers, then targeted remedies are important.

They use the glittering metal as ornaments to flaunt family wealth, as a source of retirement savings and as insurance against calamities.

The action all takes place in the dining room, "the source of every calamity," as Ludwig says.

It is also important to reassure the moderate Syrian opposition as well as America's regional allies that while the U.S. is engaged in the fight against ISIS, it recognizes the original source of the calamity in Syria and is committed to bringing about political transition and power-sharing in Damascus.

In the Bronze Age, when agriculture had become firmly established as a primary source of food, few calamities would have been as devastating to a community as the loss of its seed stores, or the destruction of its crops.

Tagore's reflections on the world and especially the Eastern University, "The deepest source of all calamities in history is misunderstanding.

Elsewhere was a catalogue of calamity.

"It was a kind of calamity on top of a calamity," Ms. Spencer said.

Frank Kermode wrote, "It seems there is a sort of calamity built into the texture of life".

Now a week of calamity threatens to upend those compacts, with unpredictable consequences.