Sentence examples for be more calamitous from inspiring English sources

Even if the speeding itself is unlikely to directly cause an accident, it increases the likelihood that something else — a wet road or a distracting text message — will do so and that the accident, when it occurs, will be more calamitous.

It were painful to anticipate the consequences which would too probably attend a disputed election to the Presidency; those consequences might be more calamitous than can be foreseen.

Yet although these highly leveraged creatures seem to have made credit tremors more sudden and more frequent, these episodes have not been more calamitous.

I list them in rough order of immediate impact because some will be sudden and calamitous, and some will be more insidious, only becoming obvious over time.

Brokers again were looking carefully at where the market goes next: are shares cheap after last week's falls, or could there be even more calamitous economic news around the corner?

The effects can be even more calamitous in countries with fewer checks and balances, and weaker institutions and independent media.

If lightning or a camper's carelessness causes them to ignite, the result could be one more calamitous conflagration to add to the state's recent string of them.

Then he pointed out that the recession that Obama had inherited from his Republican predecessor was even more calamitous than had previously been thought.

Potential climate surprises are more likely to be calamitous than benign, because the probability of adverse climate events, such as flooding resulting from sea level rise, increases with increasing uncertainty, all other factors being equal.

The economic fallout would also have been much more calamitous if the strong winds had hit one of the country's two main cities, Dhaka and Chittagong.

The economic fallout would also have been much more calamitous if the cyclone had hit one of the country's two main cities, Dhaka and Chittagong.