Sentence examples for large-scale calamities from inspiring English sources
Just as an alien studying the planet could catalog several large-scale calamities — disease epidemics, volcanic eruptions, political-feedback loops that lead to war — so can we observe disasters transpiring in the dense communities of our brain cells.
Led by Aro (a fabulous, flamboyant Michael Sheen), the Volturi come to believe that Renesmee is an "immortal child" whose milk teeth will instigate a large-scale calamity.
It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.
Studies further confirm that government-led and government-managedsedenteralization of pastoralists, urbanization and expansion of large-scale mechanized farming in the pastoral areas often result in the depletion of natural resources, vulnerability to natural calamities, conflicts and impoverishment (Ayalew 2001, Helland 2000; Hogg 1987; Getachew 2004; Yohannes 2003; Gebre 2004).
The inefficiency of the communes and the large-scale diversion of farm labour into small-scale industry disrupted China's agriculture seriously, and three consecutive years of natural calamities added to what quickly turned into a national disaster; in all, about 20 million people were estimated to have died of starvation between 1959 and 1962.
Ah, large-scale ecclesiastical patronage.
"Large-scale Russian aggression.
Large-scale operations started in 1915.
Israel responded with large-scale "retaliation raids".
Large-scale smugglers spread their money around.
