Sentence examples for how calamitous from inspiring English sources

Otherwise, watch out; there's nothing like the force of nature -- in this case a mammoth thunderstorm -- to illustrate how calamitous hubris can be.

"However, it needs to be borne in mind just how calamitous the sudden arrival of large numbers of skilled, unemployed people could have been for the region.

It's difficult to overstate just how calamitous the decision, announced Tuesday, to suspend most joint combat patrols between Afghan soldiers and their American and NATO mentors is.

Mr. Scott added that the film managed "to show how calamitous and out of control (and also how thrilling) growing up odd and ordinary can be, without wallowing in its hero's occasional self-pity or condescending to him".

But Cameron said the growing signs that the SNP would seek to have a major impact on the direction of a Labour government showed how calamitous a Labour minority administration might become for the UK.

"With baseball, we still see the mutually destructive, win-lose approach on both sides, and the world sees how calamitous that can be for the industry and for management and labor," said Mr. Shapiro, who was a lead mediator in the 1994-95 strike.

In observing how a calamitous event like the destruction of the World Trade Center can establish new indexes of timekeeping (the "Before and After" syndrome), Deaver argues that stopping time in its tracks is a madman's ruse for stopping life itself.

If that weren't the case, then I wouldn't have seen 50 articles about how slow Black Friday sales are "calamitous" for the nation.

Clinton said he believed the next generation "will be given one final chance to figure out how to avoid calamitous consequences of climate change.

It's easy to imagine another filmmaker using a voice-over and a montage to introduce, at the start, the fatal outcome of the Altamont concert and portentously declare the intention to follow the band on their American tour to see how they reached that calamitous result.

But with all the talk about how the Giants are facing calamitous subzero temperatures factoring in the wind chill, you would think the majority of Packers had spent their youth on cross-country skis.