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calamity sentence examples

  • But, notwithstanding that obstacle, might he not, if he had seen fit, have found means to avert the calamity?
  • Calamity against a backdrop of social breakdown and apocalyptic despair.
  • It was not for long, however; for a month or two later a dreadful calamity fell upon marija.
  • Calamity strikes with it come the doubts, the fears and the struggles of dealing with it.
  • Calamity of war.
  • Calamity for the people of scotland.
  • Calamity who brought these calamities upon you will deliver you from the hand of your enemies.
  • Calamityor no reason that he can understand he is struck down by a series of awful calamities.
  • Calamitythe calamities w ch follow upon sounding the trumpets, are all by war. ' [ unfoliated ] ' prop.
  • Calamity deal with the calamities of this life.
  • In like manner didst thou visit thy holy martyrs which suffered great calamity.
  • All those prophecies of impending calamity were outright bollocks, of course.
  • Calamitynot accept the burden of man-made disasters as it struggles to face natural calamities.
  • Calamitythe calamities w ch follow upon sounding the trumpets, are all by war. ' [ unfoliated ] ' prop.
  • Calamityuman beings can deal with the calamities of the natural world.
  • Pillars inserted to avoid calamity are said to have come from the timbers of spanish galleons sunk in the armada.
  • To him the reform bill came as a dire calamity, and the repeal of the corn laws was an unpardonable atrocity.
  • Pearson: well, what needs to be in place to prevent another such calamity?
  • Shakir: and what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?
  • In romania there was a big natural calamity - water floods on 75 % of our state territory.

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