Sentence examples for about the calamity from inspiring English sources

No one asked about the calamity of the last "evidence-free" strategy.

In the manors and town houses of the super-rich those who have brought about the calamity harbour their wealth.

Since September 11th, he has been right about constitutional abuse, right about warrantless domestic spying, and right about the calamity of sanctioned torture.

In her pages on rock, Ehrenreich just barely mentions the Dionysian landmark of Woodstock — and says nothing about the calamity a few months later of Woodstock's evil twin, Altamont, where an 18-year-old black man was killed.

But another rumor soon spread: neither the Western press nor the Albanian émigré press had written a word about the calamity that was about to befall Albanian writers and artists.

(We know as much as we do about the calamity thanks to Daniel Defoe, who chronicled it in scrupulous detail in his 1704 book, "The Storm". Widely credited as the father of the modern novel, Defoe also pioneered the genre of the modern disaster narrative).

Apart from the direct material damage wrought by the quake and tsunami on the northeast of the country, which the government has estimated could reach ¥25 trillion, or about $300 billion, the calamity in turn set off a crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, which has been leaking radiation.

Many Iraqis and Libyans are glad to have got rid of the old dictators, but they have no doubt about the calamities that have befallen their countries since the change of regime.

And he was cleareyed about the calamities, sometimes self-inflicted, that had befallen others, among them Picasso's mistress Dora Maar and the great actress Arletty, who had paid the price for having an affair with a German officer.

Just as with the rather ridiculous and exaggerated claims about the calamities that would befall all of us if we removed lead from gasoline, we hear similar refrains about the catastrophic consequences of eliminating incandescent bulbs.

Making matters worse, the Fed and the Treasury have now changed their story about how the calamity unfolded.