Collapses this spring at a couple of ancient sites here caused weary archaeologists to warn, yet again, about other imminent calamities threatening Rome's precarious architectural birthright.
Baldwin, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, 243, explains that "suddenly" is associated with ominous conditions or imminent calamities).
Idling the 20km to Waren, the water like a mirror, we were serenely unaware that just below the surface lurked imminent calamity.
The worst negligence may have occurred more recently than that: local engineers claim that faxes they sent warning of imminent calamity were ignored in Bihar's capital, Patna, because the relevant bureaucrat was on leave.
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth 391pp, Cape, £16.99 When the hubristic, newly elected US president boasts of America's invulnerability to foreign attack, the sense of imminent calamity is overwhelming.
Even without signs of an imminent calamity, it is hard to argue that these financial enterprises -- essentially two huge hedge funds -- should continue to evade the type of rigorous oversight that banks face on issues like capital requirements and new lines of business.
Various methods were tried over the years to arrest the consequent decay, but it was not until the 1950s that the painting was sealed it was then thought for good by a gluey fixative that set hard like plastic.Yet signs of imminent calamity were evident again two decades later, and in 1978 Ms Brambilla was charged with saving the work and, where possible, correcting overlays by earlier restorers.
Some also do not see such high risks of imminent climatic calamity, particularly disagreeing with Dr. Hansen's projection that sea levels could rise a couple of yards or more in this century if emissions continue unabated.
Thinking that perhaps some terrible calamity was imminent — a nuclear catastrophe, or a sudden epidemic after a research-laboratory accident — and that by some unfortunate mishap he alone had not been warned, B returned home and switched on his transistor radio.
Ardant is delightfully friendly, polite and anxious to please yet simultaneously exudes a sense of imminent chaos and calamity, not to mention deliberate mischief-making.
I, too,sense the imminent arrival of great calamities.
