Sentence examples for a disastrous beginning from inspiring English sources

After a disastrous beginning to the season for Sunderland, having only collected 1 point in their five Premier League games, they are in desperate need of a win.

But he understood that losing the star coach would be a disastrous beginning, and he took Krzyzewski to dinner and desperately sought common ground.

Carlos Beltrán has overcome a disastrous beginning to his Mets career, compiling two consecutive solid seasons, but occasionally he remains the target of frustrated fans.

The snub represents a disastrous beginning to Kerry's already fraught Middle East tour, which took him to Baghdad on Monday for crisis talks about the Islamist extremist uprising.

The new émigré's architectural life in New Zealand had a disastrous beginning.

That means the safeguards to prevent a disastrous decision to begin nuclear war remain human and not legal.

It seems like a disastrous decision to begin with, but it will turn out to be one of the best she's ever made, making her realise that she's long outgrown her New York.

White House officials, meanwhile, were left to deal with a disastrous week that began with Republicans losing close to 40 seats in the House and ended with a weekend of Trump's various controversies in Paris and his return in a sullen and aggrieved mood that promised a new round of staff firings.

Nearly 40 years have passed since the Red Army invaded Afghanistan, beginning a disastrous decade-long war that ended with the Soviets' humiliating withdrawal.

That self-injury began a disastrous period of weight loss and doubt.

Four years later, one of Lumumba's captors, an army officer named Joseph Mobutu, again with enthusiastic American support, staged a coup and began a disastrous, 32-year dictatorship.