Sentence examples for causes calamity from inspiring English sources

Suggested by PoppaAlcohol PoppaAlcohol writes: "Dear me, no mention of M Hulot?" In the French film, bumbling but lovable Mr Hulot causes calamity at a seaside resort.

July 30 2009 August 22 200909 Josh Koenigsberg wrote this comedy, about a business-card mixup that causes calamity in the life of an enterprising New Jersey man.

Daft Newt causes calamity almost immediately on arriving by creating a rumpus in a bank with his animals – and a quirk of fate means he forms the unlikeliest of friendships with a no-maj, Jacob Kowlaski (a beguiling performance from Dan Fogler) an ex-soldier stuck in a factory job but nursing big dreams about opening his own bakery.

Icelanders live in a hostile landscape on top of a rift that will cause calamity at some unspecifiable point.

But others, including the development economist Jean Drèze, who is a member of the National Advisory Council headed by the ruling Congress party leader, Sonia Gandhi, say the UID will cause calamity.

On Tuesday, an Isis spokesman had called for militants to cause "calamity for infidels" and to step up attacks during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

The writer repeated the familiar condemnation of religion: it causes war, it's the opiate of the masses, there isn't some all-powerful giant sitting on a cloud causing calamity or salvation, and only the uneducated believe in a higher power.

There was nothing buffoonish about Hulot; by and large, he was more likely to be bemused witness to society's folly than to cause calamities himself.

If the emperor did not behave according to proper ritual, ethics, and morals, he could disrupt the fine balance of these cosmological cycles and cause calamities such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, epidemics, and swarms of locusts.

The debate is meaningless in the villages, where men and women are too busy scrabbling for food to weigh multiple causes of calamity.

But these are not the underlying causes of calamity or accomplishment.