Sentence examples for expensive calamity from inspiring English sources

Because meanwhile, parents trying to get as much tuition protection as they can for an expensive calamity will be buying a policy that doesn't offer full coverage.

A 7.3 shock beneath Tokyo, it is estimated, would cause $1 trillion of damage, which would be easily the most expensive calamity in history.Historical accident put the world's biggest megalopolis (35m) on such dangerous ground.

The calamity that ensues is an expensive one.

After a series of calamities in recent years, Louisiana shellfish is expensive and won't become cheaper anytime soon, industry members say.

But Reagan has left Bush with among other things, the savings-and-loan calamity, nuclear-materials plants with a lot of (and expensive) problems, and the enormous pile of national debt.

This is an expensive lesson for EBD and it has amended its paperwork to avoid this type of calamity in the future.

On this view, America's much more rapid recovery than Europe's is no mystery: it is because the debts of American households have fallen fairly rapidly since the 2008 global calamity; and because the notorious or celebrated fracking has made America much less dependent on expensive imported energy.

… A caesarean section, which in Burkina Faso is performed almost exclusively as a life-saving intervention, was widely held to presage unaffordable costs, potentially accompanied by social calamity if it meant that a woman was divorced or abandoned on account of being 'too expensive'" [ 130].

Oh calamity!

Calamity follows.

It's our calamity".