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Перевод: calamitous

[прилагательное]
пагубный; бедственный

Тезаурус:

1. It was a calamitous representation, by me, of a perfectly honourable and generally accepted proposition.
2. It seemed to provide an envoi to the policies and economics of consensus, which had coincided with decades of calamitous financial and international decline.
3. He has said the change in diet and water would be calamitous and that he ought to rest where all is familiar for six months or more.
4. A good beginning does not rule out a calamitous ending: that is the way of war.
5. In the 1970s Australian jazz experienced the same calamitous slump that afflicted the music generally.
6. And indeed, as we have seen, as "his" astonishing run of victories turned gradually but inexorably into calamitous defeat, the tide of Hitler's popularity first waned rather slowly, then ebbed sharply - a decline accelerating decisively after Stalingrad, when Hitler's personal responsibility for the catastrophe was widely recognized.
7. After a steady series of by-election blows throughout the seventies (including a calamitous defeat at Ashfield in April 1977), Labour was cheered by a decisive defeat of the Scottish Nationalists in the Hamilton seat (May 1978), one of the markers in the SNP advance in the 1960s.
8. "The consequences of a receiver being appointed to Bond Brewing are, as you can imagine, potentially calamitous for Bell Resources, which has a A1.2billion (591million) deposit partially secured against the capital of Bond Brewing."
9. Plenty of Christians have tried their hand at putting their beliefs into prose or poetry, usually with calamitous aesthetic results.
10. This part of the banner, the lower half, was too calamitous for the eye.
11. David Dimbleby got John Major to admit that Nigel Lawson had warned the Cabinet of the calamitous consequences of the Poll Tax.
12. It is not surprising that one railway executive of the period described this time as one of "calamitous overbuilding" in Canadian railways.
13. Similarly, Mr Yeltsin, like Mr Gorbachev, was born into a peasant family during the calamitous 1930s and came to political maturity during the first days of Khrushchev, when hope began to dawn after Stalin's long night.