Sentence examples for calamity which from inspiring English sources

This summer, the beach is the symbol of an ecological calamity which has been 40 years in the making.

The priority today is to avoid the further calamity which could follow if disease is to take hold.

They are not bound to refrain altogether from debating the causes of the calamity which is visiting Europe.

At least two provinces have declared a "state of calamity", which allows the accelerated release of government relief funds.

This calamity — which would have affected Jeannot and Rose as well — is occasionally mentioned but never really incorporated into the emotional structure of the film.

If those frequencies were powerful enough, he maintained, they would spare the planet a coming 25-year period of calamity, which ancient writings had augured.

To put an end to these incessant armaments and to seek the means of warding off the calamities which are threatening the whole world-such is the supreme duty which is today imposed on all States.

"It has been my political creed to try and arrest the calamities which now beset us," he declared in March 1861, But as we are in trouble we must meet like men.

Admittedly, none of us is yet clear what precise percentage of Britflicks are deliberately conceived as Producers-style calamities, which nonetheless result in millions plopping into various tax-avoiders' bank accounts.

The Marquis of Londonderry said he was afraid that, if the bill passed, the hitherto unrivalled constitution of England would be destroyed, and the country become a prey to all those calamities which were now desolating the other parts of Europe.

Nicaragua is striving to overcome the after-effects of dictatorship, civil war and natural calamities, which have left it one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere.