Sentence examples for causing calamity from inspiring English sources

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tens of thousands have already died, and many more are already so sick they will probably also die, even if a belatedly aroused international community manages to pressure the Sudanese government to stop aiding the Janjaweed militias causing this calamity.

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.

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