Sentence examples for calamitous to from inspiring English sources

They range from the calamitous to the inconvenient.

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.

If it's volume, it has hardly any meaning to the main point of contention between us — which is whether coming Arctic changes are calamitous to ecosystems, and human affairs, or not.

A new selection process and head coach have played a part, together with the injury, fortuitous rather than calamitous, to Mitchell Johnson from whom it was previously insisted that Australia would eventually get some consistency.

When the good writers tried to regain their self-respect by becoming political activists in the Stalinist style, it was calamitous to talent; the Algonquin group's own style was lost as their voice blended into the preachy, self-righteous chorus.

Their god Dagon, an agricultural fertility deity probably meaning "grain," fell to the ground whenever the ark was placed in close proximity to it; and, even more calamitous to them, the Philistines suffered from "tumours," probably the bubonic plague, wherever they carried the ark.

From within, sections of the media suffer from calamitous willingness to submit to the army pressure, chronic disunity and alarming lack of accuracy and professional accountability.

Only last spring nearly everyone involved in regulating airline safety thought the idea of giving guns to pilots was a desperate, potentially calamitous way to prevent hijackings.

These measures need have no negative impact on the growth and stability of the economy, but they would address the calamitous failure to ensure everyone has the chance to secure for themselves a permanent, decent home in a desirable location.

Should the challenge prevail, and German support be withdrawn, it would almost certainly doom the project of greater integration and send a potentially calamitous signal to financial markets looking for urgent steps to buttress troubled euro zone economies.

— pushed financiers to make billions of dollars in profits selling calamitous mortgages to people who plainly could not afford them.