Sentence examples for calamitous falls from inspiring English sources

Mr. Fellowes said in a statement, "This was a vivid time with dizzying, brilliant ascents and calamitous falls, of record-breaking ostentation and savage rivalry; a time when money was king".

He and his fellow conservatives added them up, made howlers of their own and concluded that far from being an oligarchy in the making, the rich had suffered calamitous falls in their income.

Of course, that followed a calamitous decline.

But with the populations of Newfoundland falling by 7percentt between the 1996 and 2001 censuses, Yukon by 6.8percentt, Northwest Territories by 5.8percentt, New Brunswick by 1.2percentt and Saskatchewan by 1.1percentt, populations in some rural areas are already in calamitous decline.

Yesterday, an online forum set up by the authority to answer questions turned calamitous when hundreds of inquiring straphangers fell victim to technical glitches.

The Fergusons were all smiles at half-time as Posh led through striker Craig Mackail-Smith's 35th goal of the season but saw United fall apart in a calamitous spell after the break.

Poor in the first half, when they fell behind to a calamitous own goal from the wonderfully-named John Boye – whose miss-kick ended with the ball looping into the net off his knee – Ghana briefly threatened to resurrect their hopes of reaching the last 16 in the second half.

Closer to home, New Yorkers have always been vulnerable to such phenomena as the aleatory pigeon strafing, the annoyingly unpredictable jaywalk summons, the calamitous random subway shoving and the unexpected falling gargoyle.

Australia collapsed from 42-0, much of the damage done during a calamitous afternoon session that saw six wickets fall as their top order were guilty of poor shots and dreadful use of the decision review system.

At times, it looked as though he might come home empty-handed – a humiliation that might have set in train a calamitous slide towards Brexit and his own political fall.

Brokers again were looking carefully at where the market goes next: are shares cheap after last week's falls, or could there be even more calamitous economic news around the corner?