Calamities

They had to strive against natural calamities for ages.

Serious calamities struck him his whole life.

"Do you think about the future?" "Yeah, I like futurology." "What do you think of the future of humanity?" "Well, if we survive major calamities, the future may be postbiological. But, that scenario may be a catastrophe for us organics."

A person of noble character neither trembles in the face of calamities nor elates when blessings are chanced upon.

It was a solemn thing, to hear, in the darkened room, the feeble voice of the sick child recounting a weary catalogue of evils and calamities which hard men had brought upon him.

Morocco is dealing with a cocktail of calamities.

When we are spared from calamities, it's just that they didn't find us in the right place.