Sentence examples for personal calamities from inspiring English sources

I asked how he viewed these elections in light of his personal calamities.

A clerk in the courtroom of David Atkins, a Cook County circuit judge, called cases last week with a monotony belying the personal calamities they represented.

In her opening remarks, Ms. Bair said that there was a pressing need to "restore rationality" to the credit markets, and that foreclosures were not just personal calamities.

A Nazi concentration camp survivor, Mr. Birger was part of a fading generation of European Jews who overcame personal calamities in the Holocaust and went on to fight for and help build the state of Israel.

But some customers, because of personal calamity or indifference, ignore all these warnings.

"It would be a personal calamity reputationally, with no actual chance of a nomination being approved by a Republican Senate".

Now, six years later and in the aftermath of a second devastating personal calamity, her predicament as a writer has sharpened, and writing "no longer comes easily to me.

His previous convention speeches (if you believe his critics) clearly demonstrate his willingness to trot out personal calamity to further political goals.

For Hong, the wreckage behind every unmade film is a virtual screenplay for every one that gets made, every personal calamity is a potential triumph of art.

A trial in which he denies paying an underage prostitute to attend such a party resumed the day after the vote.The loss of Arcore was one of several that made these elections a personal calamity for Mr Berlusconi.

In the film's most moving scene he regales them with one he invented about a chrysalis and a tree that addresses both Martine's suicide and his own recent personal calamity, which he is barely able to talk about.