Sentence examples for or calamity from inspiring English sources

I don't think it's any national disaster or calamity".

Which of his nicknames will he live up to: Superman or Calamity Brown?

Even without a specific tragedy or calamity to respond to, pressures and critical issues always lie just below the surface.

All solutions were necessarily final solutions, and the triumph, or calamity, would surely last at least a thousand years.

Almost every year some sort of crisis or calamity threatens to dim the event or challenge the winners to find an appropriate response.

With no clear winner and ten of 12 contenders eliminated, the two remaining candidates were variously described by liberal reformers as a choice between disaster or calamity, poison or the noose.

If the effort proves successful, Mr. Clinton said, he hopes to replicate it and help improve living conditions in other disadvantaged or calamity-struck parts of the world.

Hard news was generally defined as breaking developments involving major leaders or issues, public policy, or disruptions of daily life such as natural disasters or calamities.

Section 15 of Republic Act 8042 specifically mandates the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), in coordination with appropriate international agencies "to undertake the repatriation of workers in cases of war, epidemic, disasters or calamities, natural and man-made, and other similar events".

No one wants to think about the prospects for threats or calamities.

In its announcement, issued after trading ended yesterday, Berkshire cited two provisions in the tender offer that allowed Berkshire to walk away if there was "any general suspension of trading in securities on any national securities exchange" or "a commencement of a war or armed hostilities or other national or international calamity directly or indirectly involving the United States".