Sentence examples for calamitous failure from inspiring English sources

We've had 50 years of the war on drugs, and the results are in: it is an absolutely calamitous failure.

Mr Francis has provided a wish list rather than a route map.Avoiding calamitous failure is not enough, in any case.

Our legacy to future generations is our calamitous failure to protect and preserve an acceptable quality of life for the human race.

Even with relatively simple systems such as engineering structures, it is all too easy to overlook the possibility of symmetry breaking leading to calamitous failure.

John Prescott's regional fire control project was a calamitous failure, yet the real lessons have still not been learned and the present government is making the same mistakes.

But the central point, that government intervention is needed to address the calamitous failure of the market to tackle youth unemployment, is now back on the agenda.

This is not to say that I think his presidency has been without its serious, even calamitous, failures, the most important of which is his unwillingness to intervene in any meaningful way in Syria.

The potential is for a 21st-century version of the Johnstown Flood, a calamitous dam failure that killed more than 2,200 people in western Pennsylvania in 1889.

Many of those listed on the documents found in his possession were reportedly killed by the Chinese and Mr Lee is alleged to be behind one of the most calamitous US intelligence failures in recent times.

WASHINGTON — A co-chairman of President Obama's fiscal commission told members of a powerful Congressional panel on deficit reduction Tuesday that he feared they would fail, and he said the consequences of such failure could be calamitous.

Failure is not as calamitous as it sounds.