Sentence examples similar to a calamitous launch from inspiring English sources
Dubinsky, 44, and Hawkins, 42, muddled through a near-calamitous launch in October, when Handspring had to shut down its online store because of stronger-than-expected demand and software glitches.
In August, they discovered they had made a calamitous error when Isis launched an ambitious offensive that came close to capturing Irbil.
With all around us counseling restraint on luxury, with Prada itself the target of cackling over its troubled finances, the launching of an estimated $40 million flagship emporium -- in traumatized Lower Manhattan, no less -- looked headed toward a calamitous capsize.
Some of the Palestinians now thrusting themselves forward, notably Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), a former prime minister now elected as the new chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, have made no secret of their belief that by launching a violent intifada after the failure of Bill Clinton's Camp David summit four years ago, the Palestinians made a calamitous mistake.
It is a calamitous desire.
Of course, that followed a calamitous decline.
If so, it was a calamitous mistake.
It was a calamitous miscalculation for Syria and for Turkey.
Aid workers feared a calamitous battle for the city.
Baghdad's hospitals were in a calamitous state.
