Sentence examples for public calamity from inspiring English sources
Eight years later, Robert Southey recalled this as "something more than a public calamity".
He declared that it would be a public calamity if the present bill were passed — but his resolution was rejected.
In June, the governor was forced to declare a "state of public calamity" to get a bailout from Temer's Administration.
The Brazilian president has been impeached, the economy is nosediving and Rio has declared a "state of public calamity".
Today more than 13 million inhabitants of Sao Paulo state find themselves on the edge of an unprecedented public calamity.
The past five years have not been about the big public calamities that usually make up economic crisis.
As a thinker, du Vair is famed for such treatises as De la constance et consolation ès calamités publiques (1593; "On Constancy and Consolation in Public Calamities," Eng. trans. A Buckler, Against Adversitie, 1622).
A closer look at Lipsius's first Neostoic work reveals that De constantia was the manifesto of a humanist who was convinced that he had found in Seneca's philosophy both a consolation and a solution to the public calamities which he and his contemporaries were enduring.
It had all the makings of a public relations calamity.
Charles II was greatly offended by the suggestion that he would want to "draw a benefit to himself from so public a calamity of his people" – so he had Knight thrown in jail.
