Sentence examples for calamitous failures from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

As America settles onto the long path toward withdrawal from Afghanistan, Pakistan has considerable power to determine whether the end of our longest war is seen as a plausible success or a calamitous failure.

These measures need have no negative impact on the growth and stability of the economy, but they would address the calamitous failure to ensure everyone has the chance to secure for themselves a permanent, decent home in a desirable location.

It is that laconic judicial caution that Sir John Chilcot deployed to annihilate any residual doubt that the decision to take Britain to war in Iraq in 2003 was a calamitous failure and a monstrous mistake.

His round of 121, 49 over par, was, is and, assuming the R&A's rigorous vetting of entry forms does not suffer a calamitous failure some time in the future, always will be the worst score in the tournament's history.