Sentence examples for calamitous days from inspiring English sources

More than 21,000 British soldiers were captured in the first 24 hours, including eight battalion commanders, one of the most calamitous days in Britain's military history.

Moores could have lost self-belief in the calamitous days after England fired him but he was saved from any lasting crisis by an early invitation to apply for the position as Lancashire's coach.

The newspaper clippings he kept from that calamitous day once depressed him.

The book recounts what could have been a far more calamitous day but for the bravery of Commander Carmichael and his engineering crew.

It might sound to most British ears like a calamitous day on the London Stock Exchange but "Black Friday" has followed Mother's Day and Halloween across the Atlantic and forced its way into the commercial calendar.

At 226-6 athehendnd of the first day of this fourth Test, Kevin Pietersen not out on 67, this was not England's most calamitous day.

Neither was Senna's down to Adrian Newey, the chief designer at his Williams team, yet the Briton is still haunted by that calamitous day two decades on.

The businessman is a longstanding friend and supporter of the prime minister, who is desperate to reassert his authority after a calamitous few days.

At least four thousand people have already died of Ebola, the economic impact of the epidemic has been calamitous, and every day the numbers get worse.

"The judgment not to take Captain Clarke's advice was to have calamitous results only five days later when Titanic sank.

This has prompted books with scary titles, such as "The Coming Generational Storm" by Laurence Kotlikoff, of Boston University, and Scott Burns, a journalist.Moreover, if things look bad in America and worse in continental Europe, they will one day look calamitous in some parts of the developing world.