Sentence examples for great calamity from inspiring English sources

Lincoln was able to learn and grow amid great calamity.

GREAT calamity can sometimes call forth great profundity.

You can compare it to any great calamity.

But at times of great calamity, like yesterday, they feel especially far from home.

The world will probably soon hear of great triumphs on the peak, and there is equal capacity for great calamity.

The Maldives and its inhabitants just happen to be first in line for the great calamity when it arrives.

I, too,sense the imminent arrival of great calamities.

The rules take aim at one of the great calamities of the 2008 financial crisis.

Adams did tell a friend that the "great calamities in life leave one speechless," and three years after Clover died he wrote that he was still "sad, sad, sad".

For all the questions, what was clear was that the World Trade Center would take its place among the great calamities of American history, a day of infamy like Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma City, Lockerbie.

Three weeks ago a group of scientists produced a well-publicised research paper suggesting that the Earth was in the middle of a sixth great extinction of living species, to compare with the five great calamities of prehistory when most of life died (the last one being the asteroid which wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago).