Sentence examples for avoid a debacle from inspiring English sources

OFFICIALS on Long Island are reviewing local storm-preparedness plans, hoping to avoid a debacle similar to the one in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Nevertheless, if the firm is careful enough to avoid a debacle, it will do a great favour to those who want to follow in its footsteps.* "Auctions: Theory and Practice".

The winner will automatically become prime minister, a move that the party hopes will eradicate voters' memories of Mr. Mori's scandal- and gaffe-plagued year in office and thus avoid a debacle in parliamentary elections to be held in July.

Was the company trying to avoid a debacle like the one Facebook experienced, when its shares plunged right after the I.P.O? Was it starting low and leaving room to boost the range once executives meet with investors on the company's road show and gauge their interest?

But Mr. Lowenthal, who said he had not been briefed about the reorganization and was basing his understanding of Mr. Brennan's plan on news accounts, said that the new mission centers could help avoid a debacle like the intelligence assessments before the Iraq war, when analysts trusted information from sources they knew little about, and who were later discredited.

David Wagner, a UC Berkeley professor of computer science who served as an unpaid technical advisor to the county, said a staged rollout is wise to avoid a debacle like the rollout of Healthcare.gov.gov

Unlike the Channel tunnel, they insist, it will be financed in a way that would avoid a financial debacle.

As an up-and-coming beverage brand gets a new look, executives are hoping to avoid a redesign debacle like the one that roiled Tropicana orange juice.

The desire to see the Ebola crisis close up, combined with the need to maintain enough distance to avoid a political debacle, created some awkwardness.

The moves are being watched closely in Washington as a possible model for other communities hoping to avoid a homeless debacle like the one that followed Vietnam, and even those who have long been critical of the federal bureaucracy's handling of homeless veterans are cautiously optimistic.

So in many ways California's legislators may be trying to avoid a similar debacle.