Sentence examples for world calamity from inspiring English sources

It took a world calamity for him to bat an eye," Polucki said.

Prosperity depended in considerable measure upon a world calamity, but in the United States it was ascribed only to domestic freedom.

Mountain Landing is an enclosed 1,000-acre 1,000-acret with a helipadevelopmentshuttle homeowiths in and out of thelipadvelopmenthat a moment's noticanto hunker down in the face of a world calamity or be transhuttle for a day of mountain climbing.

None of our cities and homes are immune from disaster, and in a warming, crowded world, calamity seems more likely to strike than ever.

There are only two ways of knowing: create a world calamity for each presidential contender or look at each candidate's IQ score.

REACTING TO OUTSIDE EVENTS No doubt the euro zone mess, debt problems in the United States and other world calamities are threats to global investing.

Perhaps, in any case, there are worse things than bidding farewell to the fond illusion that Americans would remain forever exempt from the ways of the world, calamities included.

The story largely unfolds during the Great Depression, building to the compulsory rousing end in 1939 when Britain declared war on Nazi Germany, world calamities that don't have a patch on the urgent matter of the speech impediment of Albert Frederick Arthur George (Mr. Firth).

But there are many ways of writing about the sorrows of human experience, even when playwrights are drawing on a specific real-world calamity.

Yankee fans recuperating from the World Series calamity might be in need of comfort food.

Yankee fans recuperating from the World Series calamity may be in need of comfort food.