Sentence examples for calamitous loss from inspiring English sources

Failure on any of these could represent a calamitous loss of power; all are possible.

Is the element of risk itself, the danger of calamitous loss, itself the proof that a legacy is being honored in the use?

Yingxiu suffered a calamitous loss of people and property, but this was followed by a conspicuous upswing in output (especially construction) and employment.If this seems counterintuitive, that is because GDP is easily misunderstood.

Johnson made a brief statement, taking the blame for the calamitous loss, saying he had worked his team too hard in a short week after last Sunday's wild-card victory in Seattle, then strode off the stage and disappeared, not even waiting for the inevitable question about just what he would say at his post-mortem in South Florida on Sunday.

If Barclays was a third the size it is; if it were a stand-alone investment bank with no depositors' funds at risk; if it had enough capital to stand on its own two feet after making a calamitous loss — then the arrogance and outsized pay packages of (some of) its employees wouldn't matter nearly as much.

It was only when we added up numbers of all the different farmland bird species for each year since 1980, when we started keeping records, that we found their overall population has dropped from 600 million to 300 million, which is a calamitous loss.

He said he expected that it would "lead to a better understanding of exactly what it was that preceded the calamitous losses".

When Hurricane Sandy hit, the new headquarters endured calamitous losses, including vintage musical instruments, all financial records and an estimated 60 to 70 percent of its CD stock.

What makes these calamitous losses even worse is that, compared with the rest of Europe, our wildlife even half a century ago was already impoverished after a series of devastating assaults.

Business leaders here noted that after prodding Asian governments from Japan to Indonesia to increase the openness of their financial institutions, the United States was bushwhacked by the calamitous losses at one of its own big hedge funds.

The most conspicuous beneficiaries are Wall Street banks like Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, which have sold stakes to government-controlled funds in Asia and the Middle East to compensate for calamitous losses on mortgage markets.