Sentence examples for cause a calamity from inspiring English sources

As in the Ericsson case, they can conspire together to cause a calamity.

According to Haberman, Clinton, who apologized for failing to intervene in the Rwandan genocide, continued: "If you refuse to act and you cause a calamity, the one thing you cannot say when all the eggs have been broken is that 'Oh my God, two years ago there was a poll that said 80 percent of you were against it.' Right?

If you need evidence of how Congress acting irresponsibly can cause a calamity, look no further than the Great Depression.

That could be a scenario for a massacre, he suggested, causing a calamity for Palestinians who would be pulled into violence, and a political disaster for Israel.

Regulators said on Tuesday that 28 of the world's biggest and most interconnected banks would be required to hold more capital in reserve than less important banks would under proposals intended to keep the failure of one or two large institutions from causing a calamity.

The last statement illustrates an attempt by the hospital's quality-control department to reduce the impact of legal punishment on its physicians, in the case that thoughtful and responsible behavior nevertheless caused a calamity.

CNBC's Larry Kudlow, an occasional Trump adviser, said that the tariffs could cause a "major calamity" and Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska said that "[y]ou'd expect a policy this bad from a leftist administration, not a supposedly Republican one".

They noted that votes to raise the debt limit have failed at least nine times in Congress since 1975 without causing a financial calamity, though in most of those cases the increase was approved soon after the defeat.

The entire world waits to discover if the wrath of mother nature will cause a horrendous man-made calamity to add insult to injury.

Andy Hornby, the former head of HBOS who caused such a calamity at the bank, yesterday became the chief executive of Boots with a salary and bonus likely to be over £1m per year.

In any western country, such a calamity would have caused a political firestorm and top-level resignations.