Sentence examples for calamitous attack from inspiring English sources

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.

Internal papers also showed that extra nicotine was added to cigarettes to guarantee smokers sufficient "satisfaction".Despite such public-relations disasters, the industry continued to win judgments, most significantly when the Supreme Court rejected by five votes to four a potentially calamitous attack that would have given the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco products.

Azhar and Shoaib Malik had previously fallen in quick succession, the former to a calamitous comedy run out with more phases than an All Black attack, and the latter first ball to Anderson's reverse-swung in-dipper which no one in their right mind would think of reviewing.

Whenever there is a calamitous terrorist attack, alternative theories take shape in the gaps in evidence.

US officials say it was not directly linked to the calamitous 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, although US counter-terrorism operations in Libya were stepped up after that incident.

The pace wasn't frantic, the plot didn't turn preposterously far-fetched, and the rekindled love affair between the C.I.A. analyst and the P.O.W.-turned-terrorist was sundered not by treachery or boredom, but by a calamitous terrorist attack that made it impossible for them to stay together.

Though we have yet to suffer the sort of game-changing, calamitous cyber attack of which many have warned, why wait until then to prepare?

A team renowned for attacking but who never convincingly attacked, and for calamitous defending but who never defended calamitously.

Mrs. Robinson also saw parallels to other public scandals, like the Enron case, and to other calamitous events, like the terror attacks of Sept. 11, after which many people set priorities in their lives.

When "Far Away" was staged last year at London's Young Vic theatre, it seemed unsettlingly prescient: written before the 9/11 attacks and the calamitous war on terror that ensued, it opens at nighttime, with a girl, Joan, staying at her aunt's house.

A year that Democrats decreed would be about "jobs, jobs, jobs" has produced a far different check list as its sixth month nears: health care, financial regulation, energy, a nuclear arms treaty and a Supreme Court vacancy, as well as investigations into a mine accident, a calamitous oil spill, a failed terrorist attack in Times Square and alleged Wall Street fraud.