Sentence examples for a fiasco at a from inspiring English sources

The second is a fiasco at a potentially even more lucrative project the nearby coal mine at Tavan Tolgoi (TT).

Bersani – battered by weeks of failed talks to form a government and a fiasco at the presidential election which saw both his candidates shot down by party rebels – has resigned.

Faced with the risk of a fiasco at next summer's Lambeth conference a once-a-decade gathering in England for all the communion's bishops the Americans were pondering how far they could go to meet conservative demands that they stop elevating gay bishops and blessing same-sex couples.

Israel's Independence Day on April 21st brought back the embarrassing memory of a fiasco at last year's 50th anniversary celebrations for the state of Israel.

In 2005, when both Michelin and Bridgestone provided tires to teams, there was a fiasco at the United States Grand Prix when the teams with Michelin tires refused to race after the tires were found to be unsafe, after a couple of incidents earlier in the weekend.

The morning had been a small fiasco at the Matthews home.

It has not forgotten the fiasco at Vinashin, a huge state-owned shipbuilder.

John Kennedy managed to emerge from an early fiasco at the Bay of Pigs and achieve the counter-image of a cold war liberal, thanks to the Berlin and Cuban-missile crises; then Lyndon Johnson's fear of being labeled "soft on Communism" helped him override his doubts about getting deeper into Vietnam.

A commuter told the paper, "Other than after the 9/11 attacks, I've never seen such a fiasco of delays at the inbound, upper-level part of the bridge".

Yet until that accident last year the most famous incident in her career was a fiasco in 1997 at the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition in London while she was still in training.

She has also just edited The Poetry of Sex for Penguin – the sort of idea that, in the wrong hands, could be a fiasco; with Hannah at the helm, it's a triumph.