Sentence examples for a disastrous example from inspiring English sources

Some gun control advocates regard this as a disastrous example of tone-deaf politics: the war on Big Gulps writ large.

(If it is the end: the fashion world has a remarkable ability to shrug off the odd deeply flawed human being, as long as he or she can cut a dress like Galliano can or wear one like Kate Moss, who, despite behavior that sets a disastrous example for millions of girls, including issues with drugs, is forgiven because, well, she is really very pretty).

The game of politics, for example, is to find a disastrous example of someone's judgment.

But no one seems to be considering the toll this is actually taking on the church itself, a disastrous example of winning the battle but losing the war.

Instead, in what military historians consider one of the most "disastrous example of a CO seeking to make his mark", Godfrey decided instead to launch an attack, in defiance of the clear instructions he had received, and against all basic military logic and common sense.

The most disastrous example of this was the Terri Schiavo affair the case of a severely brain-damaged woman who was caught in a battle between her husband, who wanted to remove her feeding tube, and her parents, who wanted it left in place.

Dylan's disastrous example made rock musicians steer nervously clear of novel-writing for decades.

Not groundbreaking stuff, as far as plans to change the system go, but after the orgy of spending in the 2012 election the campaigns and outside groups combined to shell out $6.3 billion on state, federal, and local races reformers are learning from previous failed attempts at instituting statewide public financing (Arizona is one disastrous example) to make sure this time is different.

Resource lawyers point to the disastrous example of the East Texas Oil Field, which, when discovered, was the largest oil reservoir in the world.

It turned out to be a disastrous move for the company, one of the rare examples of not delivering a stellar mobile service to the masses.

For example, in December 1999, extreme rainfall on the northern Venezuelan coast triggered a disastrous debris flow, which caused about 1,500 fatalities and the destruction of 23,000 houses (García-Martínez and López 2005).