Sentence examples for the current calamity from inspiring English sources

On this question depends the success of the recovery, not just from the current calamity, but also from the prolonged stagnation and despair of the last two decades.

Those who have long advocated for arming Syrian rebels or for air strikes against Syrian military targets are proclaiming that the current calamity could have been avoided if the Obama Administration had acted earlier.

Its tenacious investigation led to Congress passing the Glass-Steagall Act in 1933, which separated commercial and investment banking activities – reforms whose repeal in 1999 contributed to the current calamity.

Throughout the state of Gujarat, scene of the current calamity, buildings collapsed in the manner of the best-known clichés: like a house of cards and a ton of bricks.

This tripartite system has proved inadequate in the current calamity due to failure to follow three general principles of crisis prevention.

The DLC has a crisis too because it has consistently stressed free market pro-corporate policies only to find they contributed to the current calamity.

Bigger still was the mounting evidence of the seamless synergy between his campaign and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage monsters at the heart of the housing bust that set off our current calamity.

Our view is that the current economic calamity arises not so much from problems within our discipline as from the slavish devotion accorded it by outsiders.

"The whole economy was leveraged up, and we're now suffering the consequences," said Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital, who offered early warnings about the current economic calamity.

"I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people of Vanuatu that the global community give a lending hand in responding to these very current calamities that have struck us," he said.

News outlets the world over are littered with stories of doom and gloom, of current calamities and human suffering.