Sentence examples for biggest calamities from inspiring English sources

Trump's victory is one of the biggest calamities to befall the west and the effect is that every racist, woman-hater, homophobe and rightwing authoritarian feels vindicated.

Containerization affected seaports everywhere, but the decline of New Orleans's waterfront was one of the biggest calamities to hit the city before Hurricane Katrina.

The work with the highest asking price became the evening's biggest calamity: "Minutiae" (1954), one of Robert Rauschenberg's earliest and largest mixed-media combines.

Perhaps intentionally, perhaps by clever accident, the producers dodged the biggest calamity, which would have been to somehow ruin the original by coming too close and yet not close enough.

But the biggest calamity in the novel is its language, which rarely rises above that which you'd find in a pamphlet, located between blandsville and a concrete post.

For all that, the biggest calamity remains a pick-and-mix football side composed of those professionals with the merest hint of Scottish blood who might be persuaded to forgo retirement for another decade or two.

1963: the killer winter It was greater in its effect than pesticides (and God knows that was bad enough), it was greater than shooting, or egg-collecting, or any human actions, or anything else that came along in the course of the 20th century: the winter of 1963 was the biggest calamity to hit the birds of Britain in modern times.

But in my opinion, the biggest calamity about TV shows for kids nowadays is that they are teaching children that cell phones and video games are the only forms of entertainment.

Other coal-ash ponds have caused even bigger calamities.

Devising ways to quarantine the influence of money keeps legions of lawyers and ethicists busy, and the price of neglecting this job has been a subtext of the big calamities of recent years.

But the experts stress that it is the sum of a number of issues all happening at once rather than one or two big calamities that will test society's ability to cope.