Sentence examples for ongoing calamity from inspiring English sources
Watching Mr Assad smugly commenting in an almost casual way about this ongoing calamity sounded like an exercise in denial.
It is an ongoing calamity: from the discredited fit-for-work tests that determine eligibility for employment and support allowance, the Work Programme that is failing to get significant numbers of disabled people into paid jobs, benefit sanctions, and the closure of the independent living fund to the bedroom tax.
According to Solnit 2009 disasters, besides being devastating, can bring people closer that consequently creates an altruistic community where people help each other and fight the ongoing calamity together.
He goes on to say that what's been "holding us back is the dysfunction here in Washington," which is true but I consider treating the long-term budget projection as an immediate concern during an ongoing calamity to be the largest manifestation of this dysfunction.
For all their air of tweedy conservatism, the quintessentially modern political phenomenon might be Ukip In our dealings with the wider world, Marquand puts a neglect of history and past experience at the heart of two ongoing calamities: an increasingly troubled relationship with the rest of Europe, and all those misadventures in the Middle East.
With the refugee crisis and an ongoing economic calamity in southern Europe, the continent looks pretty screwed, I suggest.
Despite its own troubles - such as the ongoing euro calamity, the refugee crisis, and negotiating Britain's exit from the EU - Europe remains the indispensable partner for the United States on global economic and security issues.
Many of the conservation bodies told The Independent on Sunday that these and other ongoing environmental calamities – some either contributors to, or sufferers from, climate change – are as serious as the failure to address global warming effectively.
He said the ongoing negotiations between the White House and Congress over looming tax increases and budget cuts - and the threat of economic calamity if some sort of deal isn't reached - are clouding the mood in Washington and could be affecting the plans of some potential celebrants.
