Sentence examples for a disastrous effort from inspiring English sources

At that point, though, they contrived to undo their good work with a disastrous effort.

The sale is the latest evidence that Bank of America is retrenching after a disastrous effort to build a global investment bank from scratch.

Mr. Pitt was forced to resign last month after a disastrous effort to name the head of a new accounting oversight board, a decision at the heart of efforts to improve corporate governance following scandals from Enron to WorldCom.

In 2014 the government banned the export of some raw minerals in a disastrous effort to ramp up domestic smelting; exports of bauxite collapsed from 55m to 500,000 tonnes within a year, without any concomitant rise in alumina or aluminium exports.Local-content laws abound, covering energy, retailing and carmaking, among other sectors.

Allegheny's problems are largely the result of internal accounting mistakes, investor skepticism over the short-term prospects of the electricity industry and a disastrous effort to enter the energy-trading business through the purchase and subsequent sale of trading operations from Merrill Lynch.

The complete extinction of Graziani's army had left the British with a clear passage to Tripoli, but their drive was stopped by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who redeployed a significant portion of the North African force in an ultimately disastrous effort to oppose German ambitions in Greece.

RocketSpace itself is something of a recovery from Mr. Logan's disastrous effort to have a start-up of his own.

But Mr. Clinton, in an interview, acknowledged that his early missteps, notably his disastrous effort to push through a national health plan, played a role.

Shell powered past regulatory hurdles and intense opposition from environmentalists to return to the Chukchi Sea after a disastrous 2012 effort, only to find the results disappointing.

The Academy hired MacFarlane, a man with next-to-no presenting experience, because, despite the disastrous effort of Hathaway and Franco two years ago, it is still trying to give the Oscars youth appeal (presenters were forbidden from mentioning that this was the 85th Annual Academy Awards, for fear of making it sound fuddy duddy; only in LA do people worry that an event needs Botox).

Turnbull has said on several occasions post election the government had no plans to overhaul 18C, citing the politically disastrous effort spearheaded by Tony Abbott when he was prime minister as a compelling reason why the debate should not be reopened.