Sentence examples for calamitous end from inspiring English sources
But that era of mass manufacturing came to a calamitous end in the 1980s as production moved overseas to take advantage of cheaper labour.
But 40 years after Japan's naval ambitions came to calamitous end, a ceremony was held on a ship above the wreckage.
Few economists expect a double-dip recession, in which the economy begins to expand only to contract again, but many fear a protracted period of stagnant growth that could last several years, much like Japan's Lost Decade in the 1990s following the calamitous end to an era of excessive real estate speculation.
CONCORD, N.C., Oct. 14 — As the Bank of America 500 Nascar race came to a calamitous end Saturday night at Lowe's Motor Speedway, only three drivers in the 12-car playoff field emerged with a realistic chance of driving away with the Nextel Cup championship.
The central bank lowered interest rates following the calamitous end of the technology bubble in 2000, lowered them more after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and then kept them low, even as speculators began to trade homes like dot-com stocks.
As a reborn reporter, my instinct was to visit several Muslim centers -- Gaza, Cairo, Hamburg -- throwing myself into as many intense conversations as I could on the subject of suicide bombings, martyrdom and Sept. 11, especially with men in their 20's and 30's who might have given some thought to what moved their generational cohorts to take this path and stay on it till its calamitous end.
Discovering who they are and where they are and when they were is what triggers the novel's calamitous ending.
If you are prone to superstition, 2012 provides a wealth of apocalyptic fears and calamitous end-of-day scenarios, starting with the ever-popular end-of-the-world Mayan doomsday.
After calamitous "death panel" claims, he takes on the crowd.
When Angelou was three and her brother four, their parents' "calamitous marriage" ended, and their father sent them to Stamps, Arkansas, alone by train, to live with their paternal grandmother, Annie Henderson.
Not calamitous or terminal.
