Sentences with phrase «as calamitous»

The national debt now stands at around 60 per cent of GDP: the government regards this as calamitous and is determined to drive it down.

It was not to be, though, at the end as a calamitous Steven Gerrard slip ironically let the title slip for Liverpool.

Art can be as calamitous and vacant if it is just a means to a self - serving end.

Not exact matches

While some countries have used offensive military actions as a distraction, to do so against Israel or any Western nation would be to invite a calamitous response.

The authorities ordered «that everything that could anger God, such as gambling, cursing, and drinking, must be stopped» (A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, by Barbara W. Tuchman [Random House, 1978], p. 103).

Bonhoeffer concluded that «only a polyphony of this kind can give life a wholeness and at the same time assure us that nothing calamitous can happen as long as the cantus firmus is kept going.

Perhaps best remembered for his error against the USA four years ago, Green has an unfortunate reputation for the calamitous but on more than one occasion has shown himself to be a competent and reliable goalkeeper, such as at QPR this seeason

Boro made a strong impact on the Premier League during their first season, but the second can only be classed as somewhat calamitous.

Even a calamitous display from Ooooospina won't hand szczesny no. 1 position, I think it wasn't completely about conceding, WS1 was never as calm as Ospina is currently.

Welbeck sees himself as a striker so that would have been calamitous for us playing welbs and OG12 in a chelsea match.

Indeed, if you removed these three players from the Arsenal side, they would still be a team with plenty of creativity in the middle, sometimes excellent and sometimes calamitous performers at the back, and strikers who are very good but not as good as they need to be.

And up until Adam Bogdan had his calamitous concentration lapses against Exeter City and Watford I was all for giving him a chance to impress the fans and maybe stake his claim as Liverpool's number one goalkeeper but I think fans have seen the last of him in a Liverpool shirt especially when you see that Jürgen Klopp has recently recalled young Danny Ward from his loan spell at Aberdeen.

Although our calamitous defence may be an issue, it is not as big as the issue which is unfolding around the stands caused by the men off the field.

The game harked back to times in the not so distant past where a calamitous Liverpool defence would have to rely on a breathtaking attack if it were to dig itself out of a hole, but under the new manager the team are required to work as a unit, and this collective responsibility is something which should be beneficial in the long run.

Dejan Lovren — 6 Not as convincing as he was in the last outing against Stoke, but still not the calamitous figure of last season.

Despite a mixed first season, where there were extremes such as red cards against Liverpool and Newcastle, and a calamitous mix up in the League Cup Final against keeping Lionel Messi in his backpoket, he has firmly established as the most accomplished centre back in the team in his second season.

Abou Diaby, impressive so far, hobbled off quickly, as Fernando Torres gave Arsenal the lead, owing to some calamitous Arsenal defending.

Yes he did steady the ship after the calamitous spell under David Moyes but ultimately it has to be looked upon as a failure.

Arsenal can recover from this opening day debacle, as they did a few season ago when a calamitous game against Aston Villa was followed by a run of good form and the signing of Mesut Ozil.

Via a presentation McElroy takes his audience on a journey through calamitous political errors and seemingly unbelievable one - liners from would - be Republican presidential candidates on issues such as rape, homosexuality and abortion.

Those are good enemies to have, but one result of Paterson's calamitous time in office is that he has become more isolated, trusting an ever - smaller cadre of aides even as he's desperately in need of allies.

«It can come as no surprise that nearly half of house builders felt the negative impact of the Welsh Labour Government's calamitous mishandling of «NewBuy Cymru».

However, it cautions against the idea that Labour could be imminently replaced as the main opposition, saying the electoral system will act as a «firebreak» against a calamitous collapse in the number of seats.

After a few establishing scenes depicting Naru's and Ori's relationship, a calamitous supernatural occurrence happens in the forest and Ori's carer Naru dies as a result.

As Margaret finds herself drawn into the inner circle of the wealthy, mysterious Wilcoxes, Helen devotes herself to a young working - class man desperate to improve himself, setting up the three families for a calamitous encounter when long - buried secrets and private prejudices come to light.

And to keep going with the car analogy (since we're on a roll), just as invasive backseat drivers can sometimes interfere with the smooth progress of the journey, or at the very least make the journey tense, unsatisfying, and fraught with the expectation of a crisis around every corner, so can the overbearing parent transform the school experience into a calamitous, anxious, and contentious one.

«For every author who meticulously examines the latest developments in physics or computing, there are other authors who invent «impossible» technology to serve as a plot device (like Le Guin's faster - than - light communicator, the ansible) or to enable social commentary, the way H. G. Wells uses his time machine to take the reader to the far future to witness the calamitous destiny of the human race.»

And as he trebucheted toward a four - inch curb, aware at once that his meeting with it would be physically calamitous, he remembered that he was wearing no helmet, and his surprised turned to fear.

It is enough to remember that when a market is at high valuations that corrections can't be predicted as to time of occurrence, but when the retreat happens, it will be calamitous, and not orderly.

Set in the distant future after a calamitous event wiped out the Earth as we know it, Horizon: Zero Dawn finds humanity having reverted to a much more primitive state.

Here the calamitous push towards a new tomorrow and the resulting take - no - prisoner urban development is brilliantly explored by a set of Cui Jie's painting and sculpture of impersonal high rise developments, whereas Pixie Liao's photograph «In One Dress» laments the loss of individuality as a price for progress.

That's the battle cry of the High Priest of Global Warming Al Gore and his fellow, agenda driven disciples as they predict a calamitous outcome from anthropogenic global warming.

I'll be writing more on the scope of what would have to happen to stop the buildup of carbon dioxide at just about any of the concentration peaks that have been tossed around lately as either «safe» or not totally calamitous.

Given that this 2.0 C goal calculation apparently excludes the ~ doubling of warming due to the predictable loss of the «sulphate parasol», and excludes all carbon feedback outputs, it is hard to see how an additional forcing from feedback permafrost methane «comparable to what CO2 can do» can be viewed as anything but calamitous.

Dan is heavily at odds with quite a few members of the group that you (vaguely) describe as the «calamitous climate change culture,» yet not only do you place him into that group (without specifying how or why), you even go so far as to, with complete certainly, explain a causal mechanism behind a putative bias in his work on the basis of his strong identification with that group.

The declaration also recognizes that «it may be too late to avert drastic climate change» and encourages compassionate responses to «such calamitous challenges as population displacement, food and water shortage, catastrophic weather, and rampant disease.»

What I've been talking about is your identification of a «calamitous climate change culture,» and your distinguishing that «culture,» as a matter of kind, from the cultural components the larger framework of associated ideological polarization.

The Little Ice Age that followed (1300 - 1850) was calamitous, as were the Dust Bowl and the extended droughts that vanquished the Anasazi and Mayan cultures; cyclical droughts and floods in Africa, Asia and Australia; and periods of vicious hurricanes and tornadoes.

Global mean surface temperature might well induce sea level rise but even there, it is not a singular factor and SLR is not rising a a calamitous rate as seen in the movies.

These downside outcomes were presumably expressed as an implied early start to more calamitous scenarios, yet neglects potential good outcomes for other regions, or even the same regions regarding other issues (or indeed more globally, regarding CO2 fertilization).

Before this month's calamitous election, cabinet ministers were calling on Theresa May to strip Truss of her role as Lord Chancellor in a post-election shuffle.

This might be jumped upon as some rare good news by those lawyers that view deregulation as some kind of calamitous price - driven race to the bottom.

Your death, being a sole - earning member of the family, can be a calamitous loss and make it difficult for your dependents to move on with their lives in the same way as before.

The Note 8 is also a big launch for Samsung not only as the company's fall flagship, but the return of the Note brand to market following last year's calamitous Note 7 failure.

Thursday's fall is a sight less calamitous, but the cryptocurrency did drop by $ 172.00, or about 15 %, as it flirted with its all - time high in Wednesday trading.

Personally, I don't think it's nearly as bad as Alex Dobie over on Android Central who called it «calamitous,» but then it's also possible he has a faulty unit.

A pyramid scheme wrapped inside a Ponzi with a side order of WTF, Bitconnect was as crazy as it was calamitous.