Examples of calamity

• Such calamities served as a ' flash point ' on the colonial landscape.

• Thus, there was a component of ' bad luck ' - a ' natural calamity ' factor.

• Covert activities may be justified in infiltration of illegal groups or to prevent crimes or calamities.

• To be brief, copper smelting was an environmental calamity.

• Animal activists are at the same time searching for ways to save animals from ecological calamity.

• They invoke supernatural agents to deal with emotionally eruptive existential anxieties, such as loneliness, calamity, and death.

• In these days few are so biassed by party or sectarian bitterness as to grudge an epitaph to virtue and calamity in times gone by.

• No, because haphazard calamities are meant to apply to agents who are already established.