Sentence examples for badly wrong as from inspiring English sources

When that falls down, things can go badly wrong, as the election debacle demonstrated.

Things may go badly wrong, as last week's assassination attempt on one of the two leading candidates, Dr Abdullah Abdullah, underscored.

The two break down the grid into different, overlapping regions.Nobody knows the true state of the national grid until something goes badly wrong, as it did in October 2012 when Hurricane Sandy left almost 8m people powerless, some for weeks.

A.I.G., for instance, was selling insurance for all kinds of financial instruments and did not have anywhere near adequate reserves to cover claims if things went badly wrong, as they did.

Tom Burke, who advised Michael Heseltine, John Gummer and Michael Howard on the environment, said: "The leadership are getting the politics badly wrong, as the change is being interpreted as the return of the nasty party.

On the other hand, having benefited the most from the post-2001 order, the urban population stands to lose more than people in the countryside should things go badly wrong as U.S. and NATO troops hand over responsibility for security to Afghan forces by 2014.

Ed Miliband fought a decent campaign, but, as with Neil Kinnock in 1992, something went badly wrong at the end – and unlike that election, it wasn't the exit poll.

There was pizzazz, but it's the kind of event that can go badly wrong, combining, as it does, Hollywood celebrities, good intentions, and a lot of people who look like they've cleared out Moss Bros in a blind panic.

The first of Nick Faldo's hunches went badly wrong yesterday as Sergio García, sent out to carry the European flag in the opening singles round, collapsed to an emphatic defeat at the hands of Anthony Kim, playing in his first Ryder Cup.

"But we have to recognize that the European Union has changed a lot since the referendum of 1975, and that there have been not only great achievements to the E.U.'s name but some things that have gone badly wrong, such as the euro," Mr. Hague said, referring to the protracted crisis over the bloc's single currency.

They knew something was badly wrong – after all, as Ron puts it, "Children don't grow backwards".