Sentence examples for huge calamity from inspiring English sources

Today, such a huge calamity could not be entirely hidden.

Mr. Corker said that failure to come to an agreement this time would represent a "huge calamity" for the nation.

Where will we be in 12 months if there is some huge calamity in London because the best officers have been driven out of their posts?

"It's a huge calamity for an export to fail that way," Janet Stotsky, the International Monetary Fund's mission chief for Malawi, said in a telephone interview.

We have seen the terrible private consequences of public disaster; could private disaster yield its own, disproportionately huge calamities?

Stifel said it would take "15 Enrons," or a huge unforeseeable calamity, for the investments to tank, the S.E.C. said.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, warned on Wednesday of a "huge financial calamity" if President Obama and the Republicans cannot agree on a budget deal that allows the federal debt ceiling to be increased.

But here are eight reasons to wonder whether the theory is true.First, for the theory to work, both parties need to believe that failing to raise the ceiling will trigger a default and the "huge financial calamity" Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Fed, gave warning of this week.

Moody's cited a "rising possibility" that no deal would be reached before the United States government's borrowing authority hits its limit on Aug. 2. On Thursday, Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, repeated a warning that a "huge financial calamity" would occur if President Obama and the Republicans could not agree on a budget deal that allowed the debt ceiling to be raised.

"What's happened since an election in 2008 and right now, again, is this huge economic calamity caused by a series of bad decisions that were made before the president ever got there," Obama campaign senior adviser Robert Gibbs said on CNN's "State of the Union.

When presented with a financial calamity or huge fraud, Congress usually reacts by holding hearings and calling for new regulations to plug the loopholes exposed in the law.