Yet, no one can ignore the calamitous situation press photographers now find themselves in, especially war photographers who risk their lives while barely making a living.
Rodong Sinmun, the North's main newspaper, said that the United States' recent pledge to defend South Korea was tantamount to "asking for the calamitous situation of having a fire shower of nuclear retaliation all over South Korea".
Although he painted a pessimistic picture of the American economy — indeed, of the entire American way of life — he said the calamitous situation could be made right by the forceful leadership he was prepared to provide.
As leaders digested the harrowing images from Syria of victims gasping for breath or trembling, there was a flurry of phone calls among diplomats expressing horror at the calamitous situation in Syria and frustration at the lack of an obvious response.
Given the calamitous situation, U.N. representatives voice hope that long-delayed Syrian peace talks known as Geneva 2 can be held as soon as mid-December.
But Mr. Maduro insisted that they were the result of a "war against the economy," saying that he had the names of businessmen who were conspiring to further reduce the supply of some products, aiming to cause "a calamitous situation" this fall.
Not only had Charles placed Sweden in a calamitous situation internationally but he had left behind him a legacy of domestic troubles.
The present calamitous situation in the Middle East, the refugee crisis and financial meltdown, far from making me doubt Marxism, buttress its arguments.
The seeds of the Wests Tigers' calamitous situation were sown nearly two decades ago, a time that seems increasingly ancient, the dark days of the Super League war, when Rupert Murdoch marched on the game.
