Sentence examples for calamity I from inspiring English sources

Rich a) criticizes Obama for originally saying that it's unlikely Ebola would come to the U.S. (it was unlikely but then it did, says Bob); and b) urges that we establish some travel bans given the potential for a growing calamity, i.e. Ebola becoming "the next AIDS," in the chilling words of CDC director Tom Frieden.

"Still," he added, "out of this near calamity, I believe Chairman Bernanke provided leadership that was urgent, nimble, strong and vital in staving off greater disaster".

"I actually believe that if, God forbid, I had been the mayor during such a calamity, I would have done as well, or better, than Rudy Giuliani," said Mr. Green, the city's public advocate.

As they cling to the railings to maintain their balance, sniping with hilarious exactitude over what is clearly a supernatural calamity ("I don't know what the management will say," the department head fusses), resisting the instinctive need to stand where a majority stands is made to seem like a losing battle against the force of gravity.

All that said, the economy is still 0.6% smaller than it was at its peak size, before the crash, in the first quarter of 2008 (which of course implies that, barring a calamity, I will be telling you in three months that the UK has at last regenerated all the income wiped out by the Great Recession).

After last week's calamity, I think the judges needed to do some damage control.

"I'm just shocked at the calamities I've had to deal with the last four years," he said, Chief Markey put it this way: "One phrase I don't use anymore is, 'It can't get any worse.' ".

In my first calamities, I thought I knew – without much training and only a little prompting from my editors – what to expect: helplessness among the victims, looting and social breakdown, and the looming threat of disease.

In my first calamities, I thought I knew without much training and only a little prompting from my editors what to expect: helplessness among the victims, looting, social breakdown, and the looming threat of disease.

Based on the titles of the books, I'd guess that the nightstand on the left is the "hers" — "Special Topics in Calamity Physics," "I See You Everywhere," "The Middle Place" — and the authors on the right nightstand suggest it's a "his" — Ian McEwan, Nick Hornby, Paul Auster, Junot Diaz, Barack Obama.

Mr Brown claimed credit for "stopping a crisis becoming a calamity", adding: "I know how to run the economy in good times and in bad".