Sentence examples for terrible calamity from inspiring English sources

Terrible calamity, the television anchors keep repeating.

"God forbid there was a terrible calamity, we could just open the gates.

"A terrible calamity, such a waste of lives and business," said Jan Muhammad, a teacher in Jalalabad.

Most believers refuse to face the implications of their own beliefs in this regard, except when it suits them: that is, when they think they have been "saved" by God from some terrible calamity.

Thinking that perhaps some terrible calamity was imminent — a nuclear catastrophe, or a sudden epidemic after a research-laboratory accident — and that by some unfortunate mishap he alone had not been warned, B returned home and switched on his transistor radio.

Thinking that perhaps some terrible calamity was imminent a nuclear catastrophe, or a sudden epidemic after a research-laboratory accident and that by some unfortunate mishap he alone had not been warned, B returned home and switched on his transistor radio.

Aleppo has been an opportunity because Russian warplanes are instrumental in maintaining the siege, and because that siege has become one of the war's most terrible calamities.

Rather than focusing on the terrible calamities he inflicted on China during the 1950s and 1960s, many Chinese would this week remember the Mao of 1949, a revolutionary hero "who led to the creation of a country that they now take great pride in, that is able to throw its weight around in the world".

–HEINRICH HEINE What have appeared to be the most striking successes have often, if they are not rightly used, brought the most overwhelming disasters in their train, and conversely the most terrible calamities have, if bravely endured, actually turned out to benefit the sufferers.

You can go on all day and all night listing terrible calamities and even lesser injustices, misfortunes and other evidence that life isn't fair.

He presents himself as a Defender of the American People, warning of terrible calamities unless the policies championed by the Bush Administration are kept in place.