The Premier succeeded in breaking down the opposition by a passionate appeal to the Members, in which he warned them that they would be held responsible for the calamity of war with Mongolia, supported by Russia, if the conclusion of the agreement were refused.
Perhaps it was almost as if post-war Europe was telling itself that the ideal of European union was in some subconscious sense what they had yearned for all along, even before the calamity of war, and it was this yearning — so poignantly decent and honourable — which made Germany's victims and even Germany itself tragically susceptible to the hateful choices of invasion and collaboration.
Confederate Secretary of War James Seddon fulminated that these articles were intended "to subvert by violence the social system and domestic relations of the negro slaves in the Confederacy and to add to the calamities of war a servile insurrection".
In another chapter in "The Quotable Abigail Adams," called "War," Abigail reminds us that it is sometimes better to "suffer temporary privations, than the calamities of War, which when once commenced, no one can calculate or estimate".
Mr. Stone pays as much attention to Operation Barbarossa as Pearl Harbor, and shows archival material not just from Normandy and Iwo Jima but also the Battle of Stalingrad, the German invasion of Ukraine and other calamities of war.
Thus was inaugurated the New Economic Policy (NEP), which Lenin expected to last for an indeterminate period; during this time the country would recover from the calamities of War Communism and the population would acquire a higher economic culture.
He is the only British monarch (for virutally the PRINCE REGENT was a monarch), during whose whole reign the nation has been preserved from suffering by the crimes and calamities of war.
The director, Gavin O'Connor, embraces the conventions — you might say clichés — of the boxing melodrama with such confidence and conviction that you can't help but be caught up in the film's big emotions, or moved by its depiction of an American working class buckling under the twin calamities of war and recession.
"Give peace in our day, we beseech thee, O thou God of peace," he said, "and grant that this highly favoured country may continue to afford a safe and peaceful retreat from the calamities of war and slavery, for ages yet to come".
Nothing is truer than philosopher Samuel Johnson's apercu 258 years ago in The Idler that, "Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages".
