Sentence examples for calamitous invasion from inspiring English sources

It's the eve of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, the Nazis' calamitous invasion of the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941.

With John Chilcot finally about to release his report into the Iraq war – a mere 13 years after the calamitous invasion – Blair is in full-blown reputation salvage mode.

It is not South Africa's fault that East Asian economies are in trouble, nor that so many other African countries are at war although South Africa's calamitous invasion of Lesotho will not help.

Argentina had tempered its claim following the calamitous 1982 invasion.

This is done to protect Australian species from a potentially calamitous alien invasion.

He ruled the church during a period made calamitous by the invasion of the Lombards and by famine, plague, and the flooding of the Tiber River.

Iraq had no WMD and the aftermath of the invasion was calamitous.

Almost everyone now agrees the 1982 war was a calamitous mistake, not just because the invasion was repelled, but because it was initiated by a dictatorship.

According to Variety, Greengrass has long been critical of the Iraq war, describing the invasion as "the most calamitous decision of our generation".

The calamitous wars that convulsed the Italian peninsula for some four decades after the French invasion of 1494 were not, according to modern historians, the tragic aftermath of a lost world.

Not calamitous or terminal.