Sentence examples for scale of calamity from inspiring English sources

It's a bewildering scale of calamity.

Indelible memories, compelling impressions and passionate reactions are not engendered by the scale of calamity, but the scope of its intimacy.

Emergency officials appeared overwhelmed at times by the scale of the calamity.

One member of the cabinet says this is typical of a Prime Minister who is 'in denial' about both the scale of the calamity facing Labour and the precariousness of his own position.

Yet the scale of the calamity has yet to fully register around the world, with news of the storm's destructive path only making major headlines almost a week after it made landfall.

Its claims were doubted by those who could not accept the sheer monstrous scale of the calamity visited on the Chinese people as a result of the Great Leap Forward launched by Mao in 1958 to propel China into the ranks of major industrial nations.

We are declaring a city wide state of calamity.

President Alvaro Colom declared a "state of calamity".

In addition to the state of calamity in Siargao Island, 16 villages within Cagayan de Oro City were declared calamity areas.

Fortaleza was in a state of calamity.

The devastation approached the scale of a 1998 calamity in which 16 percent of the world's reefs died.