Sentence examples for calamity up from inspiring English sources

The move was a desperate effort to lower the river levels and to head off calamity up- and downriver.

The move was a desperate effort to lower the river, which had climbed to about 61 feet in nearby Cairo, Ill., to head off calamity up- and downriver.

Her unwitting part in an American calamity ended up subjecting her to years of investigation and decades of suspicion.

36South Capital Advisors, a London-based manager that also thrives in market calamity, is up nearly 70 percent in one fund.

The calamity stirs up a mystery — what did Whip do, and was he sober when he did it?

As calamities pile up and the more levelheaded Leo struggles to adjust, the actors develop impressive intimacy, their increasing dysfunction cooked in sweat and humidity.

In the first days of the calamity, people lined up on West Street and applauded.

There are hirings and firings, coordinators axed, fresh starts and do-overs, mediocrity and calamity all cued up for the cameras.

The fundamental thing you want as a manager after the kind of calamity Spain served up in their opening game against Holland is a reaction.

Rich peasants who employed other men to drive their teams could be found in any village; such people as the mayor, the lord's provost, and the peasant creditor established themselves as a rural elite, whose resources insured them against calamity and opened up diverse opportunities in prospering regional economies.

This latest mishap comes only a few days after Calamity James gashed up his chin in yet another bicycle accident.