Engineers have a new potential calamity against which to design.
The devastation approached the scale of a 1998 calamity in which 16 percent of the world's reefs died.
As Fritz Stern, a German-American historian, put it, the conflict was "the first calamity of the 20th century, the calamity from which all other calamities sprang .That still does not explain why interest in what caused the war and how it was fought is so much fiercer in Britain than in any of the four other main belligerent powers.
A quarter century later, Chernobyl remains the radiation calamity by which all subsequent nuclear accidents will be measured.
Forty years during which the earth has careened toward environmental calamity.
The novel takes place over a period of four days, during which its hero, Bob Jones, a shipyard worker in Los Angeles, faces a number of calamities: he is hoodwinked out of his job, framed for rape, beaten up by white workers, and antagonized by the police.
The calamity at Shearson which during the current recession on Wall Street has cost thousands their jobs &.resulted in a first-quarter loss this year of nearly a billion dollars is a complicated drama.
Every tragedy has lessons, from calamity to triumph, which God presents to us, in order to gain His wisdom.
This summer, the beach is the symbol of an ecological calamity which has been 40 years in the making.
The 12th, a putter, is the original Calamity Jane model which was ot used after 1924".
"Even if what you're saying is true — that somehow you could foresee the financial calamity, which is, I would say, a stretch at best — when you became governor, you didn't protect the people from the calamity.
