Sentence examples for construction debacle from inspiring English sources

The book also still seems to me full of petty complaints, with talk of "restoration horrors" or a "construction debacle" when, say, there is a delay in the arrival of the sandblaster needed to smooth the exposed wooden beams.

After Sopko laid out the scope of the construction debacle, Christine Abizaid, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia, fielded a series of hostile questions from the representatives.

But this can't be a surprise to anyone living in Montreal judging by the number of construction debacles that come up so often in this city.

A local Tory MSP, John Lamont, has questioned its cost and compared its construction to "the trams debacle" in Edinburgh when, in 2014, a new tram system opened three years behind schedule and more than two times over budget.

Any developer excavating in the area would do well to remember the debacle four years ago when construction crews stumbled across remnants of the city's first cemetery while building La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, a cultural center dedicated to the heritage of Mexican Americans in Los Angeles.

China has become all the more important with orders shrinking in the U.S. as the subprime debacle takes its toll on construction.

When pressed by a reporter for the origin of the school debacle, Ms. McKinley refused to blame either incompetent construction companies, lackadaisical project managers, ineffectual administrators or the board's oversight.

A 2001 investigative report by the Chicago Tribune described the park then under construction and its budget overruns as an "expensive public-works debacle that can be traced to haphazard planning, design snafus and cronyism".

Despite months of talks, House and Senate negotiators last month failed to reach a deal to continue FAA funding, a debacle that left 4,000 FAA employees furloughed and 70,000 construction workers without work for nearly two weeks.

The Narmada debacle helped speed a shift in the bank's focus from big construction programs to dealing with health, education and improving the ability of governments to deliver services.

Still, in Dubai, any sustained recovery in construction and the real estate sector is likely to have been delayed by the recent Dubai World debacle.