Her death was described in the press as a "national calamity".

Like world crisis, national calamity, a package lost at the post office.

"This is a national calamity and more people ought to have stepped forward."

Not only is it a national calamity, but a chance for Mike's redemption.

"If not checked, this could lead to a national calamity," he said.

It is probably easier to keep Christmas during national calamities than during personal ones.

And this being the most critical year, we've been struck by this national calamity.

Faced with this national calamity he did not seek to minimise what had happened or to look for someone to blame.

We cannot turn our backs any longer on this national calamity," Bloomberg said.

This has been a national calamity of unprecedented proportions.

"It would be nothing short of a national calamity" and "an uncompromising disaster for higher education," he said.

The prime Minister of India declared it a national calamity.

He thought, What a national calamity if an edifice connected with so many associations should be consumed by fire!

Though he had a promising future on official career, he was always worried about China because of national calamity.

A football game is a football game, not a national calamity.

It is, in short, a true issue of national security, a national calamity that even the Soviet military establishment has acknowledged.

A former judge describes the amendment as a national calamity, turning the presidency into a "juggernaut."

Strengthened the determination of anti-Japanese in the end we encourage the students to forget national calamity.

Motions were passed in the congress to organize a conference on national calamities and set up measures to present united resistance against aggression.

That alone could make it seem like a show business atrocity, a commercial abuse of a raw and unresolved national calamity.

Good God, it could precipitate a national calamity.

Captain, in September last at once offered to receive two or more of the orphans arising from this national calamity.

If the president admitted that he was using a national calamity for narrow partisan or ideological advantage, it would be outrageous.

This national calamity is no laughing matter.

Implicit is the assumption that “they”, unnamed enemies, must also lie behind Poland’s latest national calamity.