Sentence examples for calamity at hand from inspiring English sources
Its signal accomplishments to date are an initial stimulus package that was overrun by the calamity at hand and a marathon health care battle as yet better known for its unseemly orgy of backroom wrangling than its concrete results.
He started to show signs of delirium tremens in late April, including paranoid delusions, and Sarah, fearing that a calamity was at hand, admitted him to the Melbourne Hospital on 1 May to be kept under restraint.
Of course, if you're a movie fan, you already know that LA has been invaded countless times over the years in blockbusters like War of the Worlds, Independence Day, Transformers and V. Indeed, no other city -- other than perhaps Tokyo -- has suffered more on-screen calamity at the hands of extraterrestrials than Los Angeles.
They don't see the validity in the stark calamity of the dying planet at hand, they see a dumb blonde with a nose ring wasting time with parables and play-time stories about how we can "save the world".
The supposed moment when the United States would be unable to pay its bills, a would-be international calamity, was drawing closer by the hour, though a bloody compromise seemed near at hand.
"You see, we are accustomed to such type of calamities, where gone is gone, and cannot be taken back," Mr. Pandiya said, raising his palms upward and turning away to the job at hand, bringing badly needed urgency into the languor of lesser babus, seated row on row at open-air tables in the grounds of the collector's office.
"We gonna see some carnage?" "I, potentially, am promising some calamity at Turn One, just like rallycross," the announcer said.
