Sentence examples for total calamity from inspiring English sources

The flood was just a total calamity in Calderdale from one end to the other".

"Compared to a great mozzarella, Patrick's effort is of course, a total calamity," he writes.

Notts, much in character, were over-reliant upon David Hussey, whose unbeaten 59 from 76 balls prevented total calamity.

And the stimulus might prevent a total calamity, they say.Egregious "Buy American" provisions in the stimulus bill have been watered down.

While the playoffs in two sports siphoned off the attention, something truly crazy has happened in baseball: the Red Sox have stopped looking like a total calamity.

So nearly complete was the country's destruction that Hungarians, when referring to total calamity, use the word tatárjárás, meaning Tatar invasion.

That is a good simulation of what "defaulting on your sovereign credit" looks like, actually -- total fiscal calamity forever.

It may seem odd to compare a movie that has earned nearly $400 million in domestic box office receipts to such a giant calamity, but that total represents a tremendous shortfall relative to expectations.

Through the Clean Air Act, President Obama could use his executive powers to cut back on the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, but to meet the necessary total reductions to avert climatic calamity, he cannot do it alone.

In June, the state government of Rio de Janeiro announced a "state of public calamity" that could cause "total collapse in public security, health, education, mobility and environmental management".

If by contrast a ship faltered or came across some calamity or storm and was a total loss, the underwriter was on the hook for their given share of the loss.