As we approach the crisis that threatens calamity, we must grasp these opportunities as they emerge and use them to redeem the system from within.
Leonhardt says that the GOP is starting to understand that they can actually apply leverage to the negotiations without resorting to threatening global calamity.
Indonesia's recent vow to suspend commercial clearance, in anticipation of its billion-dollar gift from Norway, was a big boost.But if REDD is unprecedented, it is because so is the threatened climate calamity, and forests have a lead part in that.
Here was the stuff of theater — events that were almost preposterous in their strangeness: clandestine meetings, often run by those who had no experience with such things; people's lives constantly put at risk; governments threatened with calamity; emotions rising and falling at an operatic scale; people pushed to the brink of what they thought possible as friendships were fused and torn apart.
Collapses this spring at a couple of ancient sites here caused weary archaeologists to warn, yet again, about other imminent calamities threatening Rome's precarious architectural birthright.
Now a week of calamity threatens to upend those compacts, with unpredictable consequences.
No sooner has Old Lucas concluded this peroration than the waters have indeed risen and swept him away, as calamity threatens.
Almost every year some sort of crisis or calamity threatens to dim the event or challenge the winners to find an appropriate response.
A year and a half ago a real-life calamity threatened to overshadow Mr. Allan's music: his wife, Angela Herzberg, shot and killed herself.
WASHINGTON — One flash point in the remarkable revival of interest in nuclear energy here — a revival now threatened by the calamity in Japan — came almost by accident at a late-night brainstorming session in a senator's office in 1997.
The season's best new plays all point to an American theater whose artistic vital signs are good even as the malevolent forces of AIDS, censorship and economic calamity threaten at every turn.
