Sentence examples for calamitous at from inspiring English sources

The changes would be calamitous at the best of times but to attempt such reform when spending is being cut takes ideological commitment to a level well beyond anything attempted by Thatcher.

Okay, but do have a look out at the world -- Iraq in particular -- and consider that how a war is ended can be at least as calamitous as how it is begun.

Like the novel, it flashes backwards and forwards between Clough's brilliant tenure at Derby County in the 60s and his calamitous arrival at Leeds in the early 70s.

To be sure, they built the archetypal Middle Eastern authoritarian state; they also led Egypt to calamitous defeat at the hands of Israel in June 1967.

His title came from his great-great-grandfather, the 1st Baron, the famed one-armed Crimean war commander responsible for the calamitous attack at the Battle of Balaclava.

For Johnson-Thompson it was a reassuring return to form in an event she has struggled with ever since her calamitous performance at the world championships in Beijing.

In the sequel, he survives a calamitous fall at the Hoover Dam after a military assault, and comes back more monstrous and madder than ever ("Glenn! Put the bus down!").

Coventry City will return to the Ricoh Arena after the club's owners agreed a two-year rent deal with the stadium's operators to end their calamitous groundshare at Northampton.

Within that, there is a new and cruel detail, about the way in which Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield, the officer in calamitous command at Hillsborough, was able to retire before he faced disciplinary proceedings.

Another 0-0 draw to follow the 0-0 with South Africa last week leaves the host nation not just in a familiar state of head-scratching disbelief at the impotence of these neat but oddly uncompelling inheritors of the yellow shirt but in danger of a calamitous elimination at the group stage.

André Villas-Boas has been accused by Sam Allardyce of showing "immaturity" in his reaction to coverage of his difficulties at Tottenham Hotspur but the Spurs defender Kyle Walker believes that the club have turned a corner after their calamitous defeat at Manchester City.