Synonym: accident, catastrophe, disaster, misfortune, mishap, tragedy. Similar words: amity, Islamic, laminated, proximity, on a large scale, equanimity, lamp, slam. Meaning: [kə'læmətɪ] n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune.
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61. It is perhaps not too much to say that any calamity the moment it is apprehended by the reason alone loses nearly all its power to disturb and unfix us.
62. When calamity, or when disgrace to the house, let the Dedlocks listen for my steps.
63. By some data and examples, this article reaches a conclusion that the 1998 flood in China is not only a natural calamity but also a disaster caused by misadministration.
64. Dragon Boat Festival, children's kite flying, known as the " release calamity. "
65. The Black Death, an unprecedented calamity in history, had a great impact on European Culture.
66. The image of an impending calamity is no doubt odious, but its very odiousness (we say) makes it haunt the mind all the more pertinaciously, and it is useless to expel it.
67. On the basis of the damage to nonstructural components and the information of calamity from earthquake, the authors analyse the causes of damage and provide the objective of earthquake-resistance.
68. Lightning strike by lightning means a calamity to the radio equipment.
69. To the rescue after calamity, speed can delimit with life almost good number.
70. A man may meet with some great calamity some time or other in his life.
71. D·H·Lawrence gradually formulated his unique eschatological thought in confrontation with the human calamity in the process of development in the 20th century.
72. After more than a hundred years of anti - imperialist, anti - feudal struggle,[http://sentencedict.com/calamity.html] the calamity - ridden Chinese nation at last stood up.
73. The greatest cultural calamity in the meantime occurred in 1860 when the Anglo-French forces invaded Beijing and perpetrated an appalling cultural looting rarely seen in human history.
74. His strength is famished, And calamity is ready at his side.
75. But, paradoxically, averting another Great Depression - like calamity removed political pressure for more fundamental reform.
76. Moth damage, a world-wide calamity to wool, was effectively prevented by the finishing with nationally made Antimoth TAW-AM.
77. A surprised, a disaster and man - made calamity, a pathological changes.
78. Hawthorne attempts to dissociate himself from the headlong calamity which he, too, records.
79. Oftentimes , says Seneca, calamity turns to our advantage; and great ruins make way for greater glories.
80. The greenhouse effect will bring a calamity to the low coastal regions.
81. A pessimist sees a calamity for the result of what though set minimum expectations, but meanwhile set for yourself a high standard.
82. For me, the July twentieth affair was in every way a calamity.
83. This is the way to keep off every calamity of life.
84. Calamity use to discontinue the peace process of social life and disorganize the normal movement of social orderliness.
85. Your father described you a rising prodigal particle of his dream. Unresisting soul in the calamity of what may seem.
86. S. and European sites, among others, Baraka captures not only the harmony, but also the calamity that humans and nature have visited upon the earth.
87. This thesis expounds the causes of geological calamity and region geological calamity forewarning principle.
88. Aridness and trans-desert are two connected worldwide problems. It is also the most frequent or influential calamity on agriculture and animal husbandry in Inner Mongolia.
89. Microseism, as a kind of regional monitoring means, is used to predict and forecast the great dynamic force calamity of the mine.
90. They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
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