Sentences with phrase «national calamity»

Pres. Benigno Aquino III declared a State of National Calamity on Monday, underscoring the damage to a country that was also hit by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake last month.

Months before the banks plunged Britain into national calamity, he railed against «nationalised education, nationalised health, and nationalised welfare».

(Notwithstanding the occasional mortgage meltdown national calamity, but that's a topic for someone else's blog...)

This sense of inconclusiveness grows, partly through the shock of a series of national calamities and their challenge to faith, and partly through deepening apprehension of what is implied in the idea of a covenant between God and man.

Canadian real - estate prices are being driven by local conditions, making a national calamity of the type that afflicted the U.S. highly unlikely.

It would take a lot to topple Canada's banks, and the country's housing bubbles are too concentrated to trigger a national calamity.

Isn't it ironic, then, that some modern Christians tend to categorize today's national calamities (Katrina comes to mind) as collective punishment caused by those who refuse to properly worship their god.

The Book of Job deals with the problem of undeserved suffering, no longer in terms of national calamity, but entirely from the point of view of the individual.

In 1954 the Canadian team lost in the world finals to the Russians, and the defeat was blown up into a national calamity.

Yesterday, Kenneth Clarke gave a masterclass in why hung parliaments are bad for the country and why the economic crisis is of such severity that uncertainty would be a national calamity.

Chairman, National Action Council (NAC), Dr. Olapade Agoro on Wednesday described the abduction of 110 Dapchi schoolgirls by the Boko Haram insurgents as a national calamity...

It is a mistake in politics to reduce the differing opinions of your opponents to ulterior motives.There are Labour MPs who sincerely, as a matter of principle, believe Brexit is a national calamity that must be stopped.

He alleged the social media machinists of making the crisis to be a national calamity through their sentiment against fact and figures.

There are so many formulas that could have been adopted to ensure that the couple still had their wedding without the accompanied exhibitionist lavishness so soon after a national calamity.»

It would take a lot to topple Canada's banks, and the country's housing bubbles are too concentrated to trigger a national calamity.