Sentence examples for calamitous wrong from inspiring English sources
The city council now has the chance to right the calamitous wrong that was perpetrated by the destruction of the old Penn Station, by coming up with plans to replace the Garden with a new structure.
But when he looks along the touchline at Basel's St Jakob Park on Wednesday night, the home side's manager Paulo Sousa will be reminded that, sometimes, the wrong choice might not prove calamitous.
When there is no information or, much worse, wrong information, it can lead to calamitous decisions that clobber any attempts at vigorous debate.
"There is nothing that's more important in democracy than a well-informed electorate," she says tempestuously. "When there is no information or, much worse, wrong information, it can lead to calamitous decisions that clobber any attempts at vigorous debate.
He bore, with his usual fortitude, his consequent expulsion from Wilson's inner cabinet, though much later, reflecting perhaps on the calamitous winter of 1978-79 he came to believe that he might have been wrong on this issue.
Gadaffi may have been wrong about the way things were happening, but he was right about the final calamitous outcome.
Bob Caro's four volumes try to figure out how one person could combine ruthlessness and compassion, how one politician could be a "legislative genius" who pursued the exactly wrong strategy in a failed presidential campaign (wooing DC insiders in 1960 while JFK wooed delegates) and in a calamitous war abroad.
Not calamitous or terminal.
The result was calamitous.
Calamitous is probably better.
