Sentence examples for personal calamity from inspiring English sources

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

As the features of life after 9/11 come into focus — the engagement in Afghanistan, "that bleak, first anniversary" of the attacks, the march to war in Iraq — Powers accomplishes something magnificent, no facile conflation of personal catastrophe with national calamity, but a lovely essay on perseverance in all its forms.