Sentence examples for catastrophic campaign from inspiring English sources

The overall unit kept its focus against the ponderous Greeks, originally group favourites, but who have suffered a catastrophic campaign.

He also managed Mr. Strauss's catastrophic campaign for the chancellery -- the last leader of his party to try -- in 1980.

Senator McGovern, who died Sunday at the age of 90, had run an inspiring but catastrophic campaign for the presidency three years earlier, bravely opposing the Vietnam War.

Between 1958 and 1961, Mao Zedong's catastrophic campaign known as the Great Leap Forward aimed to transform China's agrarian economy into a modern industrial society but resulted in millions of deaths and an economic disaster for the country.

The difference between then and now, is that with the US elections looming, the intelligence agencies seem less interested in concealing the true facts, and more inclined to prevent another catastrophic campaign that will compound the ongoing misery of Americans at home and hundreds of thousands more serving in far flung corners of the world.

1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow by Adam Zomoyski HarperCollins £25, pp644 The catastrophic campaign by Napoleon Bonaparte against Imperial Russia is, as Zamoyski says in his opening line, 'one of the most dramatic episodes in European history, an event of epic proportions, etched deeply in the popular imagination'.

Gul served only two years as the head of the I.S.I., ending his career there in 1989, after igniting a catastrophic military campaign to drive Soviet-backed Afghan government troops out of the provincial capital of Jalalabad.

The year 1958 marked the beginning of the Great Leap Forward, Mao's catastrophic industrialization campaign, which caused the Great Famine.

After Lewandowski's departure to Munich however, the more centrally deployed "Auba" was the one outstanding performer in the nearly catastrophic 2014-15 campaign, ending up with 16 strikes, a guaranteed starting berth in attack and some lost interest from Premier League clubs.

The family moved to Whitstable, Kent when he was three, and there a boyhood interest in battles was heightened (ironically, in view of what happened later) by a lecture he heard at the age of 10 on the catastrophic Gallipoli campaign of the first world war.

Ill-equipped and poorly led, Russian armies suffered catastrophic losses in campaign after campaign against German armies.