(n.) Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals.
(n.) A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery.
Example Sentences:
(1) But if nothing changes, nothing will change, and these calamities will be with us once more.
(2) 18) Dallas Cowboys Last season: 8-8 Needs: Offensive line, safety, defensive tackle, running back Pick: Kenny Vaccaro, safety, Texas Tony Romo often carries the can for the Cowboys' offensive calamities, but the truth is that not many quarterbacks look great when they are running for their lives.
(3) They did not look like Stoke, exactly, they kept the ball on the floor a bit more than their opponents and did not go backwards quite so much, but in the first half at least there were two sides short of attacking ideas and genuine penetration and for either to score a goal it seemed likely a dead-ball routine or a defensive calamity would have to be involved.
(4) QPR appear to be on the verge of calamity at any point in defence.
(5) SJ Closs Edinburgh He is the Daffy Duck of politics – confident and self-satisfied, leading to calamity; then he pops up again, unabashed • As a fellow economist I fully endorse Larry Elliott’s demolition of Tory party assertions that all is well for the UK’s growing economy, and that Britain is paying its way ( The Tories’ ticking economic timebomb , 20 April).
(6) This system has now been refined to be used prospectively during the management stage of a calamity.
(7) Those who backed the wars in Iraq and Libya feel tainted by the bloodshed in the calamities that followed.
(8) US and Canadian oil policies, especially the tar sands schemes in Alberta, would increase the chances of global calamities, the imposters told their audience - but reassured them that the industry could keep "fuel flowing" by transforming the billions of people who died into oil.
(9) But they should be manageable and worth taking for the wider economic gains, notably averting what might have been an economic calamity.
(10) The community's children have been especially vulnerable to these calamities.
(11) The 2007 campaign was marked by dirty tricks charges against the Huhne camp by the man he (allegedly) dubbed "Calamity Clegg".
(12) I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people of Vanuatu that the global community give a lending hand in responding to these very current calamities that have struck us,” he said.
(13) The Crystal World is surely Ballard's most gorgeous calamity: apocalypse not as abolition but as transfiguration.
(14) By calculating the medical severity index, which is the product of the casualty load and the severity of the incident, and comparing this figure with the available total capacity of the medical services, which is the medical rescue capacity, the medical transport capacity and the hospital treatment capacity, the dispatcher at the control center can fairly quickly and precisely identify if a calamity is to be regarded as a disaster or not and if the region can cope with the situation.
(15) In Scotland, meanwhile, Labour has suffered a devastating calamity.
(16) But if the political will existed, calamity could be avoided with a fairly modest increase in the budget allocation .
(17) The disease that has brought these calamities to the pretty hills of Jinotega, in Nicaragua's central highlands, is new to most of the farmers I meet.
(18) Beckett, whose influence on Walsh is palpable, and Pinter would recognise that idea that beneath the surface of everyday life lays a gaping black hole: indeed Pinter from his youth frequently quoted a phrase of Cardinal Newman that creation is a vast "aboriginal calamity".
(19) Air brakes that would have prevented the disaster failed because they were powered by an engine that was shut down by firefighters as they dealt with a fire shortly before the calamity occurred, the head of the railway that operated the train said on Monday.
(20) The droughts will be far worse than the one in California – or those seen in ancient times, such as the calamity that led to the decline of the Anasazi civilizations in the 13 th century, the researchers said.
(1) A series of misadventures and misunderstandings lead him to Calgary, where the whole Messiah mix-up reaches its painful, and tuneful, climax.
(2) The addition of epidemiologic analysis of risk factors for therapeutic misadventure (iatrogenic and self-induced) and for health status specific long- and short-term adverse drug experience will contribute substantially to drug safety in the elderly.
(3) Studies conducted in the United States during the past two decades related to drug misadventuring have been inadequate.
(4) Sloane Crosley's books, although different in tone to those of Gould and Daum – she self-mockingly writes of her own comic misadventures in a manner heavily influenced by David Sedaris – share a similar aspiration.
(5) Is the song Mile High about narcotic misadventures or misdemeanours on an aircraft?
(6) An original MoD inquest was held in secret in 1953 and recorded a verdict of death by misadventure.
(7) This study seeks to increase awareness of poison center ability to assist in management of the "therapeutic misadventure".
(8) Mechanism of injury included knife or arrow penetrations (25), firearm wounds (12), falls (17), overexertion (5), and misadventures with hazards (40).
(9) Therapeutic misadventure during cardiac valve replacement may result in patterned injury of the heart, so that postmortem examination can establish the nature of the surgical injury.
(10) Twenty-eight ovaries from normal children of the same age who died from misadventure served as control.
(11) Some local cases are cited to illustrate the difference between misadventure and negligence.
(12) Drug misadventuring is defined, applicable public policy issues are identified and analyzed, and recommendations are suggested for reducing the magnitude and scope of drug misadventuring.
(13) The patient's family supposed neglection and therapeutic misadventure and raised an objection to the medical treatment.
(14) In England and Wales, 13% of maternal deaths were related to anaesthetic misadventures, but the Japanese incidence is not known.
(15) It appears that post-prostatectomy incontinence is not always due to a surgical misadventure.
(16) Yet by claiming the intervention was mostly about rooting out terrorists, Cameron also ignores or misunderstands, and certainly diminishes, the few, possibly temporary nation-building achievements Britain can point to during its latest, sorry misadventure in Afghanistan.
(17) Therapeutic misadventures with both drugs have resulted in childhood fatalities.
(18) The probable causes of these deaths include prenatal physiological handicaps resulting from placental insufficiency, aberrant parent-offspring behaviour, management-induced mismothering, misadventure, inadequate milk supply or teat and udder abnormalities, and cold-induced starvation.
(19) While this clown's latest assertion of his alpha-maleness, in debased imitation of Bertram Wooster's misadventures, will undoubtedly add to female consternation about a Drones Club government whose leader insults women and twits his rival for being insufficiently "macho", Mitchell's contribution to the public understanding of hegemonic masculinity also deserves a mention.
(20) But it did not take a Gray diary - although a particularly brilliant one, Fat Chance (1995), did eventually materialise - for the off-stage shenanigans and misadventures surrounding Gray's 1995 play, Cell Mates, to make the front pages.