Sentence examples for communal disaster from inspiring English sources

This was obviously exponentially less intense, but the crowds on the sidewalks still talked in that special tone reserved for communal disaster.

Like Ali, the Bombay-based writer Saadat Hasan Manto saw the creation of Pakistan as both a personal and a communal disaster.

That becomes a recipe for communal disaster of a kind that even Mr Kilroy-Silk would probably not wish to see.

A more recent communal disaster, a pogrom in the state of Gujarat in 2002, in which more than 2,000 people, mostly Muslims, are believed to have been killed, could also be traced back to Ayodhya.

The diversity of its collection is staggering: you wander through a room of striking African masks, crudely carved but carefully designed to ward off communal disaster, and suddenly find yourself face to face with a simple, but luminous, Georgia O'Keeffe calla lily.

This problem became especially acute when elites thought they could insulate themselves from the consequences of communal disaster.

His writing makes much of the communal effects of disasters.

I wanted the village to speak, and given the communal nature of the disaster a choral quality to the angle of entry seemed appropriate.

STILL IN SHAMBLES The people of northeastern Japan won global admiration for their stoic dignity and communal spirit following the disaster on March 11, which ravaged hundreds of miles of the coast and left more than 20,000 dead or missing and hundreds of thousands homeless.

The people of northeastern Japan won global admiration for their stoic dignity and communal spirit after the disaster on March 11, which ravaged hundreds of miles of coast and left more than 20,000 people dead or missing and hundreds of thousands homeless.

communal living; communalism".  .