Sentence examples for a calamitous failure from inspiring English sources
John Prescott's regional fire control project was a calamitous failure, yet the real lessons have still not been learned and the present government is making the same mistakes.
As America settles onto the long path toward withdrawal from Afghanistan, Pakistan has considerable power to determine whether the end of our longest war is seen as a plausible success or a calamitous failure.
His round of 121, 49 over par, was, is and, assuming the R&A's rigorous vetting of entry forms does not suffer a calamitous failure some time in the future, always will be the worst score in the tournament's history.
It is that laconic judicial caution that Sir John Chilcot deployed to annihilate any residual doubt that the decision to take Britain to war in Iraq in 2003 was a calamitous failure and a monstrous mistake.
Barring a calamitous failure of policing or on the transport network, problems are unlikely to be left at his door.
We've had 50 years of the war on drugs, and the results are in: it is an absolutely calamitous failure.
Mr Francis has provided a wish list rather than a route map.Avoiding calamitous failure is not enough, in any case.
Sorrentino may well have been influenced by Nanni Moretti's We Have A Pope (2011), about the troubled papacy of John Paul I, with its comic scenes of all the Cardinals together in their little cell-like bedrooms and the new Pontiff's calamitous failure to give a stirring address to the faithful in St Peter's.
The potential is for a 21st-century version of the Johnstown Flood, a calamitous dam failure that killed more than 2,200 people in western Pennsylvania in 1889.
Our legacy to future generations is our calamitous failure to protect and preserve an acceptable quality of life for the human race.
These measures need have no negative impact on the growth and stability of the economy, but they would address the calamitous failure to ensure everyone has the chance to secure for themselves a permanent, decent home in a desirable location.
