Sentence examples for two calamities from inspiring English sources

Her public life ran between two calamities, seven and a half years apart.

Mark Warner, president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, described two calamities that occurred in the past year because of shortages.

These two calamities were watershed events for the African-American community, marking the ascendancy of Du Bois' vision of equal rights.

Two calamities in the autumn of 1906 shocked African Americans, and contributed to strengthening support for Du Bois' struggle for civil rights to prevail over Booker T. Washington's accommodationism.

Further south in the 49th District it was Christina Prejean who stepped aside to help Democrats avoid a top two calamity but as with the 49th Democrats still probably want one or two of their four candidates Mike Levin, Sara Jacobs, Doug Applegate, and Paul Kerr to leave the race.

H.I.V. and AIDS have quietly arrived in this land of a thousand calamities.

Another often-cited work by Salimbene is The Twelve Calamities of Emperor Frederick II (XII scelera Friderici imperatoris), probably written in 1248.

Peter Newman, a professor of sustainability and an adviser on adapting Australian cities for global warming, links all three calamities to changing climate patterns.

Syria's four-year-long descent into hell, amply foretold and arguably the most preventable of the three calamities, has prompted little such soul-searching.

(The flooding was the final of three calamities to befall Brazzaville in 2012, along with an airplane crash and the possibly suspicious explosion of an ammunition depot, which sparked fires that killed several hundred people).

Yet "Déjà Vu" is so wildly divorced from the here and the now of contemporary politics, policy and people that it's impossible to get worked up by its invocation of these three calamities, though a throwaway shot of a decimated New Orleans neighborhood used purely for some atmospheric flavoring is certainly vulgar in the extreme.