Sentence examples for calamity experienced from inspiring English sources

The G20, however, will paper over important differences of emphasis between the major players on what the next steps should be, particularly in respect of ensuring that the global economic recovery does not begin to stall and that the calamity experienced over recent months never repeats itself.

At the start of the first programme (available on iPlayer), Kershaw listed some of the calamities he's experienced in making the eight shows: "I've hacked through mountain jungles in the Solomon Islands, been almost incinerated at a rocket festival in Thailand, robbed by officialdom in Kinshasa, survived the rigours of a Soviet hotel in Siberia.

We asked people who have experienced this calamity to revisit that dark place in their brain.

It have been noted that there is disaster awareness in most of us, as we saw and experienced several calamities occurred in the past few years.

Once within the Grand Canyon, the party experienced several calamities, including the loss of much of its remaining food through spoilage and the near-sinking of a second boat, which was later abandoned.

The government can take steps to avoid future economic calamities like those we experienced in 2008 and 2009.

The current leaders experienced the calamities of the Great Leap Forward in the 1950s and the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s.

Of course, untold numbers of people have experienced the personal calamity of losing the contents of their home computers, thanks to hard-drive crashes.

Hannover Re experienced catastrophe losses in 2010 that were 21% higher than the amount it took in on premiums.That probably reflects one disaster-prone year and the fact that more things are being insured, rather than rising risks of calamity.

In the aftermath of the calamity, the experience of being on a stage had changed for many performers, sometimes subtly, other times profoundly.

There is, however, one potentially major exception to this over-all trend: those who have experienced an extreme weather calamity in the past.