Sentence examples for calamitous report from inspiring English sources

Liz Gibbons, the former Newsnight deputy editor who oversaw its calamitous report falsely linking Lord McAlpine to an allegation of child sex abuse, has been given a new role in the BBC's global news operation.

I recognize now that when we make decisions we risk, however inadvertently, the tragedy of receiving that calamitous report: tarof toraf Yosef, 'Joseph is devoured,' all our work is in vain, all we have put into our children has the risk of being undone because of a few well intentioned, but incorrect moves.

The new leader's most immediate task will be to restore faith in BBC News in the wake of Savile and Newsnight's calamitous report erroneously linking former Tory party chairman Lord McAlpine to child abuse, but the subject is familiar to him, as he ran BBC News and Current Affairs between 1989 and 2001, largely during the ascendency of John Birt at the corporation.

The BBC began disciplinary action on Monday night against senior editorial staff after an internal investigation discovered "unacceptable" management failings that led to the calamitous Newsnight report on 2 November that wrongly accused an unnamed Tory peer of child sexual abuse.

This calamitous experience reported on Page One could only have happened to an exceptionally brave fighter because Lupe Pintor, the powerful Mexican who was defending his World Boxing Council bantamweight championship against Owen, had landed enough brutal punches before the twelfth and devastatingly conclusive round to break the nerve and resistance of an ordinary challenger.

Our Australian environment correspondent, Oliver Milman, has reported on the potentially calamitous impacts the report spells out for Australia – where temperatures could rise by as much as 6C on the hottest days.

A former editor of the World at One, Angus took over Today after a year on BBC2's Newsnight, where he was parachuted in after the Savile crisis, joining three days after its calamitous Lord McAlpine report.

"Most participants to the general assembly reported calamitous business trends in their respective countries," she added, "and most consider that the recovery is not in sight yet, as 2010 will probably be on the same level as 2009".

British moths are also in calamitous decline, a major report showed in February, declining in southern Britain by 40% over 40 years.

In short, there was much ado, as there often is in response to disturbing news reports or calamitous events.

But, as the paper's editorial suggests, everything that has happened since Lord Justice Leveson delivered his report has been calamitous.