An event resulting in great loss and misfortune.
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Examples for "disaster "
Examples for "disaster "
1 Rick Snyder could have allowed this public health disaster to ever happen.
2 Hunger in Niger is the result not of war or natural disaster .
3 Data enables an informed debate about risks, disaster planning and budget priorities.
4 She said disaster relief efforts were in progress in all affected areas.
5 They will also discuss trade, food and energy security and disaster management.
1 The rest is history; 40 million album sales and, of course, tragedy .
2 Investigations continue to identify & prosecute this great tragedy & unforgivable mistake.
3 She said changes had been made as a result of the tragedy .
4 It was the second maratime tragedy to befall his family this year.
5 He obtained this ring at great cost and, I believe, personal tragedy .
1 Which Booker-winning or shortlisted novelist suffered political catastrophe this year, and where?
2 It's not great either, but it's far from an entirely cringe-worthy catastrophe .
3 Such was the general situation last Monday night, when the catastrophe occurred.
4 The overseas market saved Cruise's excellent Edge of Tomorrow from financial catastrophe .
5 How can such a minor thing result in such a major catastrophe ?
1 The dinner party lasted some considerable time; then the inevitable cataclysm occurred.
2 And they had been but the first warning impacts of universal cataclysm .
3 The cataclysm erupted when Andropov wanted another roll call, a security check.
4 We know that an unprecedented economic cataclysm has rippled across the globe.
5 This flood is represented as the last cataclysm that devastates the earth.
1 Drugs and drug-related violence are major contributors to this calamity , of course.
2 The downfall of two peoples follows in the train of personal calamity .
3 But this is a calamity Of course, no such choice is available.
4 Given the potential for another calamity , direct intervention should be an option.
5 The calamity howler is found in the midst of peace and plenty.
6 We await the impending calamity to befall Afghanistan and perhaps other countries.
7 And it represents a calamity far beyond the bickering of local lords.
8 He felt himself supremely helpless in the presence of the direful calamity .
9 The loss of the whale-boat was a calamity staggering in its magnitude.
10 The hussy is but too common, sir; and there is the calamity .
11 Something about the nature of this epidemic delayed the sense of calamity .
12 The utmost of their calamity would be better than the intolerable suspense.
13 However it appeared that some sort of calamity had befallen this planet.
14 Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the gates.
15 I have in this, and have had in a much severer calamity .
16 The calamity in the forest had left him with no better choice.
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Translations for calamity
Calamity в диалектах
Соединенные Штаты Америки