But models that ignored finance had little chance of spotting a calamity that stemmed from it.
This is especially true when projects hit a hurdle or when some major calamity befalls the project or team.
But much of the region has experienced a calamity in this respect, with many fewer births and many more deaths than would otherwise have been the case.
That also helps explain why a runaway oil well on the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico is a massive calamity, with crews struggling to stop the gushing crude.
His proposal is to start by using off-the-peg solar systems with associated batteries to do much of the work that diesel generators do in post-calamity situations (such as power hospitals).
Even a greater natural calamity cannot daunt us.
Nationally, that's a challenge, but regionally it could be a calamity.
A state bankruptcy law, on the other hand, would prepare for a possible future calamity: the inability of some states to pay for workers' pensions and health care.
What's supposed to happen: a great earthquake (sloping park, great calamity) is reputedly foretold in this quatrain. In the New World (he Lands of the West), California is the logical choice.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a crushing calamity.
The boom over, calamity is in vogue once more and to many the end seems nigh.
What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life, all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.
The break-up of the gas piping, the letting out of liquefied petroleum gas, the bursting of the running water pipe, calamity accident caused in subside of road surface and bridge,etc.
And would it not be foolish to mourn a calamity above twenty years beforehand?
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.
"How was your holiday?"- "It was a calamity.".
To avoid calamity, the finance ministry will try to make private placements of debt with international Banks.
But for new ACTS it is a calamity.
Few politicians are willing to risk their careers alienating today's senior citizens for the benefit of Americans in 2040. After all what do today's seniors and politicians care about a 2040 calamity?
After more than a hundred years of anti-imperialist, anti-feudal struggle, the calamity-ridden Chinese nation at last stood up.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
If the President's misstep in France counted as a gaffe, other false moves have led to calamity.
They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
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