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Doing too little to solve the financial crisis could prove calamitous, they say, but legislative overreach could also have serious consequences.— CFR.org -
Bloody--calamitous --I fear it will be.— Fifty Years of Public Service
How hast thou dealt already Behold him in this state calamitous, and turn His labours, for thou canst, to peaceful end In the days that now, as he looked back on his youth and manhood, must have seemed to him both distant and barren, Milton had sought for triumph, in action and in argument.— Milton
Could that MS. have undergone the test of frequent use But it requires very little familiarity with the subject to be aware that occasions must inevitably be even of frequent occurrence when the result is calamitous, and even perplexing, in the extreme.— The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels

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