Sentence examples for calamitous defeat from inspiring English sources

But they are united in their assumption that Corbyn is leading their party to calamitous defeat.

The party's calamitous defeat was not the rejection of a man, but his ideas.

His team had collapsed horribly in the previous match at Cardiff, suffering a calamitous defeat on the final afternoon.

If Labour is heading for calamitous defeat, then Corbyn's opponents need the leadership to own what happens.

To be sure, they built the archetypal Middle Eastern authoritarian state; they also led Egypt to calamitous defeat at the hands of Israel in June 1967.

A contemporary Turkish historian, Silihdar Mehmet Aga, described the disaster with commendable frankness: "This was a calamitous defeat, so great that there has been none like it since the first appearance of the Ottoman state".

But they went down to calamitous defeats.

Fulham go into the game after a calamitous 1-0 defeatoto league leaders Manchester United.

The second seminal moment came after the calamitous innings defeat at Headingley a fortnight ago.

Worse, the prosecution of the war seems to be risking an even more calamitous strategic defeat: the Talibanisation of Pakistan, an Islamic country of 170m people that happens to possess a nuclear arsenal.That, thankfully, is still a distant prospect.

Northampton, those precious six points ahead of Worcester, will try to bounce back from the calamitous home defeat they suffered to their relegation rivals on Monday as they travel to Bristol, the Premiership's unlikely leaders.