Sentence examples for modern calamity from inspiring English sources

South of Sukkur, waterlogged fields mark a modern calamity: the 2010 floods, which inundated about one-fifth of the country, affected 20 million people and caused up to $43 billion in economic losses, according to some estimates.

The real story of modern financial calamity is so enormous, so intricate and so confusing that any fictional distillation of it is likely to fall short and ring false, and even casual readers of "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis or the business section of The New York Times will find factual nits to pick with the new "Wall Street".

Of all modern ecological calamities, global warming suffices to bring to an end life on earth.

That team managed to win 33 games, an eternity of success compared to the modern-day calamity.

The museum presents the global financial crisis employing a video and a dense timeline that catalogues what Mr. Kjelleren breathlessly describes as what may have been "the most challenging man-made calamity in modern experience," excluding wars.

And here's the most incredible thing of all: 18 months into the most spectacular man-made financial calamity in modern experience, nothing has been done to change that, or any of the other bad incentives that led us here in the first place.

"I can't think of another calamity in modern history that has struck a country so small, to such a tremendous degree.… The scale here is unbelievable," Mr. Hondros noted.

Despair, yes, but above all else, bitterness – that we were unable to stop one of the greatest calamities of modern times, that warnings which were dismissed as hyperbole now look like understatements, that countless lives (literally – no one counts them) have been lost, and will continue to be so for many years to come.

It is your philosophy that gave the modern world the two greatest economic calamities it has endured.

Veteran Olympic officials have said privately they were the most chaotic, politically troubled, financially insecure Games of modern times, but they ended without major calamity.

Calamity was exhausted; Butler advanced.