Sentence examples for calamitous disaster from inspiring English sources
The claim has been largely debunked, but that has not stopped the spread of rumors and tall tales, some of which are proving nettlesome to the ruling Communist Party as it grapples with China's most calamitous disaster in a generation.
Much of the devastation wreaked by this latest and most calamitous disaster to befall Haiti is best understood as another thoroughly manmade outcome of a long and ugly historical sequence.
Then hours later Gingrich found himself in the middle of a calamitous disaster, with fellow Republicans dissing him in public and people like Charles Krauthammer declaring his bid to be "over".
The former Prime Minister, though stating, "The Conservative Party has suffered a calamitous disaster" in a CBC interview, could not conceal his delight at Stanfield's humiliation, and especially gloated at the defeat of Camp, who made an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Commons.
President Obama has ordered a freeze on new offshore drilling leases as well as a "thorough review" into what is almost sure to be the worst oil spill in this country's history — exceeding in size and environmental damage the calamitous Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989.
Izzard, who is presently treading the boards on Broadway in David Mamet's play Race, describes the Deepwater Horizon disaster as "calamitous" but wonders whether BP is solely responsible.
That was the first in what would be a long series of travel-related near-disasters — our calamitous Mexican road trip, our jet-lagged toddler's miserable Taiwan visit — and while I remembered it now fondly, I also felt strange.
O'Neill did what he could to help Carter without betraying his own fundamental beliefs, but the relatively modest accomplishments of the Carter administration were not enough to offset a calamitous combination of political disasters, including double-digit inflation and interest rates, increased unemployment and the inability to orchestrate a return of the hostages from Iran.
Analysts expect more layoffs on Wall Street because of the trade center disaster and its calamitous effect on the stock market, where three years of gains have been wiped out.
For the FSA, the idea that its second-in-command allegedly helped to silence one of the few voices warning that HBOS was flirting with disaster was a calamitous one, made worse because the regulator subsequently admitted it had undertaken repeated investigations focusing on HBOS's financial strength and found nothing untoward.
For the Dutch Republic, 1672 proved calamitous, becoming known as the "disaster year" (Dutch: rampjaar) because of the Franco-Dutch War and the Third Anglo-Dutch War in which the Netherlands were invaded by France under Louis XIV, England, Münster, and Cologne.
