Sentence examples for ambitious disaster from inspiring English sources
That first attempt was an overly ambitious disaster, during which I loonily decided that the Swiss chef Fredy Girardet's "superb though tricky" recipe for blanquette of salmon and shrimp needed the improvement of masses of onions sweated in butter, on the theory that everything that goes in the human mouth or on the human body can be improved by the addition of saut 1/8ed onions.
A fully probabilistic multi-hazard risk model was applied, for the first time, in Manizales, Colombia, as part of an ambitious disaster risk assessment and management program.
A recent ambitious disaster risk management program also was developed in Manizales, after an inter-institutional agreement was made between the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the Autonomous Regional Corporation of Caldas (CORPOCALDAS), the regional environmental authority.
But they both recognised that the target for reducing pay increases in 1978-79 was too ambitious, ending in political disaster.
The UN meeting has potential not just to vet implementation of the Hyogo agenda, but also to set ambitious post-2015 formeworks for disaster risk reduction.
Dr. Redlener and Columbia officials say they plan to find private financing to expand on that base and create something more ambitious, akin to the disaster policy programs at a handful of universities, like Johns Hopkins and Minnesota.
His first marriage, 100 years ago, to an ambitious socialite, was a disaster.
Mike Gatting's ambitious reverse sweep ends in disaster when he is caught of the innocuous bowling of Allan Border.
To fulfill its ambitious goals of averting climate disaster and promoting economic justice, she adds, it would need to focus strongly on justice for communities most affected by climate change and other environmental problems.
It should have taken place in Arnhem, the site of World War II's infamous "bridge too far," where an overly ambitious Allied battle plan ended in disaster.
Sri Lanka has granted permission for China to build a vast "port city" in the island's capital, despite concerns the ambitious project could be an environmental disaster.
