Sentence examples for approaching calamity from inspiring English sources

By midweek, a few anxious Republican voices were beginning to argue that their side had held firm long enough, and had better bend too if it did not want to be blamed for the approaching calamity.

While finishing the group stage on three points might not be a calamity, anything approaching a rout was to be avoided if possible.

Across the nation, innocent Americans braced for calamity while a handful of good guys struggled to stave off a rapidly approaching deadline for disaster.

DeLillo's pinpoint prose copes with big themes, like the structure of time and the artist's approach to calamity.

Many of them — especially the small number charged with approaching damaged reactors and exposing themselves to unusually high doses of radiation — are viewed as heroes, preventing the world's second-worst nuclear calamity from becoming even more dire.

The devastation approached the scale of a 1998 calamity in which 16 percent of the world's reefs died.

That's economic calamity on a scale the current crisis, however grave, hasn't yet approached.

Among the calamities: the Israeli military shelled the Gaza neighborhood of Shejaiya throughout the night with nonstop tank fire that allowed no emergency services to approach.

He approaches the three rabbis of his synagogue over the course of the film, but each of them stammers and cannot articulate any reasonable way of dealing with the calamities that are building in Larry's life.

In addition to giving us the words most often used to describe economic hard times, Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt also presented us with vastly different approaches to such calamities.

In light of these and other man-made and natural disasters, the world needs to revisit its approach to disaster planning and preparedness to insure that we can best meet the needs of those likely to be affected by future calamities.