The phrase "against calamity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing measures or actions taken to prevent or protect oneself from disasters or misfortunes.
Example: "The government implemented new policies to safeguard the community against calamity."
Alternatives: "in the face of disaster" or "to prevent misfortune".
But armed as he is against calamity, Mr. Cockerline will admit to some generator envy.
He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity".
Not even three fathers — four, if you count Silvers — turned out to be sufficient as a hedge against calamity.
Co., 128 Ariz 188, 624 P2d 866 ["An insurance policy is not obtained for commercial advantage; it is obtained as protection against calamity"]; Andrew Jackson Life Ins.
For the playwright, we are all like figures in the Book of Common Prayer, fighting against calamity, believing in a world "without end," because we must.
And it is worth remembering that slower domestic spending and higher saving is exactly what America needs to correct its current-account deficit.Anyway, insuring against calamity can be costly.
Predictions of disaster have always been ignored — that is why there is a Cassandra myth — but it is hard to think of a time when so many major warned-against calamities have occurred in such quick succession.
These dance dramas developed from the shadow plays of the 18th century and are performed not only as amusement but as a safeguard against calamities.
They use the glittering metal as ornaments to flaunt family wealth, as a source of retirement savings and as insurance against calamities.
The most pressing questions, though, stand unchanged from nearly a century ago: Why do we allow poverty to be profitable, and what policy steps can we take to give people access to what federally insured mortgages first provided white Americans in the 1930s safe housing, strong schools, paths to middle-income wages, and safeguards against calamities in one's health or circumstance.
Cardano characterizes his method (ratio) for avoiding misfortunes and preparing against calamities as based on a particular kind of knowledge (scientia) – both useful and necessary – which "teaches us to recognize and obtain known goods, and once they are obtained, it tells us how to use them and how to protect us with them against ills" (De utilitate, OO, II, 17a).
