Sentence examples for heading for calamity from inspiring English sources

So when Peston argues that France could be heading for calamity, how alarmed should we be? "I do appear to be the person who says, 'It's all about to go horribly wrong,'" acknowledges Peston with a smile, but he adds that he does have very serious concerns about France.

Four years ago, Mr. Paul stumped around the state, warning that the country was heading for financial calamity because of Washington's overspending.

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After a few misses, Mr. Obama seemed headed for another public athletic calamity, adding to a litany that includes a string of botched basketball free throws on the White House court last month, a horrifically ugly first pitch at a Washington Nationals game in 2010 and a display of bowling incompetence in Pennsylvania during the 2008 Democratic primaries.

I headed for Connecticut.

He headed for Germany.

"You're headed for paradise".

The move was a desperate effort to lower the river levels and to head off calamity up- and downriver.

The move was a desperate effort to lower the river, which had climbed to about 61 feet in nearby Cairo, Ill., to head off calamity up- and downriver.

But, his job on the line, he would not shrink from the need for more revenue to head off greater calamity.

That is why it is so important to have lots of capital in the system to head off a calamity.