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calamity

(= disaster) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity the earthquake was a disaster

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Simple sentences

Calamity Jane lived in California.
The anticipation is always worse than the calamity.
A calamity was avoided by sheer luck.

Movie subtitles

It was the great calamity of our people that drove us to the struggle. brought us together. and left us greater.
These things appear enigmatic and mysterious. that hundreds of thousands would be led to assemble. amidst calamity and passion.
This might turn into a calamity any minute.
Greek, serious, calamity.
Calamity Jane.
You never paused to think. that fortunes change. that in calamity, a man's reputation is his only stay.
That's what I like about you, no matter what calamity befalls others, you can still laugh about it.
There is no greater calamity than to underestimate an enemy.
You will explain to them there is no greater blessing than peace and no greater calamity than lightly engaging in war.
What a calamity.
The devastating storm ln West Scotland ls now assuming the proportions of a national calamity. Several shipwrecks have been announced. Off Scrabster, the dyke broke along a stretch of 2 miles.
Wherever I go, I'm the god of calamity.
There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life.
Every calamity in the book.
You're the only one who can save Sweden from this calamity.
Yes, a national calamity.
I'll pick the best of them for you, Calamity.
Hi, Calamity.
You brung that honky-tonk mopsy-- Shut up, Calamity.
Hi, Calamity!
Calamity, I want to introduce you.
How do you do, Miss Calamity?
Four passengers for Hays City, Calamity.
Oh, Calamity. You could stable the queen of Sheba.
Calamity, do you ever wear dresses?
You look lovely, Calamity.
Calamity, I want you to stay here with me.
Calamity, there are only two of us.
What is this? In order to catch Gim Bong Gu. You even brought calamity to me.
Fannie, it'a a calamity.
That was a calamity.
Why make a calamity out of it?
I knew how to write, but due to this calamity, I forgot.
With all this misery, this calamity, if I didn't have faith.
If it falls in the wrong hands, it can cause calamity.
Forgive me, Francisco, I should not do, I am a calamity.
Near Calamity Street.

News and current affairs

The size of the calamity raises the question of whether small countries can really afford bank bailouts.
With the Irish referendum, it has blindly and needlessly thrown itself into a political calamity.
The World Wildlife Fund declared in 2004 that polar bears would go extinct by the end of the century, and that the calamity would start in Hudson Bay, where they would stop reproducing by 2012.
In fact, Europe's failure is not just a shame, but a historic calamity.
That, together with the counterfactual - the economic calamity that would befall Germany following a collapse of the euro - implies a unique obligation to maintain it.
And yet Europe is facing a calamity.
First, the world is waking up to the calamity that we are causing.
But there is also a more troubling possibility: if, by proceeding on our current profligate path, we succeed in making natural resources scarce, we will require a new wave of technology, regardless of the cost, to rescue us from calamity.
Crippling economic austerity, imposed by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels and Washington, is not only a social calamity; it is also poses a dangerous threat to democracy.
Unfettered markets may have caused this calamity, and markets by themselves won't get us out, at least any time soon.
A calamity is inevitable unless we change.
This is not to suggest, of course, that just because the EU cannot agree on a budget or a constitution Europe is approaching yet another historical calamity.
Thoughtful theologians can distinguish among psycho-sexual issues; in practice, however, fear of a slippery slope to calamity prevails.
This reawakened my memories of World War II - the calamity that eventually gave birth to the EU.
Or will we witness attempts to downplay the calamity and return to business as usual as soon as possible?
If the international financial wizards can get together and act on this idea now, commodity exporters might be able to avoid calamity the next time the world price of their product takes a plunge.
But, whatever the pain felt in the deregulated Anglo-Saxon-style economies, none of this must inevitably cause a global calamity.
That help is needed, because Ethiopians are prone to malnutrition, disease, and natural calamity.
Third, the region is already living in extreme poverty, so adverse shocks push it toward calamity.
In dispatches from the Pacific Islands, Bangladesh, or Ethiopia, journalists warn of impending calamity.
Under continued market pressure, the European Council might have to find a stopgap arrangement to avoid a calamity.
Absent these missteps, expect a tougher ride on the global economy, but not a calamity.
On the rubble of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, the Americans helped create in Iraq the first Shia-dominated Arab state, which may well become subservient to Iran's regional ambitions - a calamity of historic dimensions for America's Sunni allies.

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