Sentence examples for calamitous time from inspiring English sources

It's been a calamitous time for the Co-op, having to abandon plans to take over 632 branches from Lloyds and suffering a humiliating, six-notch, credit-rating downgrade by Moody's.

Most of them are Sunni like their cousins in northern Iraq.These cousins, in their western-protected safe haven, had a calamitous time early on, cursed by the infighting of the KDP and the PUK (the two main Kurdish factions), and by the military intervention of, variously, Turkey, Iraq and Iran.

Ultimately, the play appreciates both those who open up and those who stay tight-lipped because they believe that, in calamitous times, there are greater horrors to combat than individual unhappiness.

That said, we live in complex and calamitous times, and what Simon did all last year was explain that in plain English so dumb-dumbs like me can i.

A lot are sure that the cause of that debacle was the failure of Bill and Hillary Clinton to pass health reform, and that coming up empty again could prove calamitous this time, too.But it is also arguable that the Democrats' big problem 15 years ago was not the failure on health care but the perception that the party had moved too far left.

Struggling to reinvent himself as a serious actor, tugged between his glamorous Hollywood life and his inner-city roots, Andre pours his heart out — in more ways than one — to a journalist (Rosario Dawson) over the course of one tumultuous and at times calamitous day.

Fixing this calamitous mess will take time and care — and Mr. Obama has taken important steps in that direction.

They acknowledge that they are suffering through a calamitous season in prime time, but argue it is not likely to be repeated.

In the three calamitous losses here this time, Anderson was clouted for 409, his meagre seven wickets costing 58 apiece; Swann was savaged so badly (560 runs conceded, each wicket at 80) that it ended his Test career.

Also notable is the fact that there is no mention of – let alone a coherent strategy to tackle - the calamitous fall in part-time students since 2012.

The new vice-chancellor of the Open University has called on MPs to arrest the calamitous decline in part-time students in higher education, with 200,000 fewer part-timers enrolling since tuition fees were hiked and student loan rules tightened.