Baghdad's hospitals were in a calamitous state.
However, he said that it would be calamitous to get to that stage and argued diplomacy would have to be used to try to avoid it.
Another 0-0 draw to follow the 0-0 with South Africa last week leaves the host nation not just in a familiar state of head-scratching disbelief at the impotence of these neat but oddly uncompelling inheritors of the yellow shirt but in danger of a calamitous elimination at the group stage.
(In the 1990s Argentina actually adopted some sensible policies, and guess what? Inflation ceased, investments flowered, and the economy blossomed. But by the end of the decade toxic actions, such as increasing taxes, were setting the stage for a calamitous relapse).
Saturday will mark the halfway point of their calamitous campaign.
For half a dozen years, she failed at everything she tried on the stage, most spectacularly in 1937, when she had the calamitous misjudgment to take on "Antony and Cleopatra": she had no classical technique, and she refused to be coached.
Flushed out of its 19th-century opera house by the calamitous floods of last summer, the Semper Oper of Dresden is staging its latest production in an automobile factory -- a shimmering glass-and-steel edifice in which the newest VW, a luxury sedan called the Phaeton, is assembled.
By that stage Swansea were a goal down after yet another piece of calamitous defending.
The declaration, nine months after a calamitous earthquake and tsunami set off a huge radiation leak, could set the stage for the return of more evacuees to affected areas.
Yet there they were, night after night, on a dusty softball field turned into a neon carnival by the volunteer fire department in Hastings-on-Hudson, which recently staged a four-day celebration of the 125th anniversary of Engine Company No. 1, founded after a calamitous fire at a waterfront sugar refinery on Christmas Eve, 1875.
