Sentence examples for contributed to the debacle from inspiring English sources

Their analysis of those aspects of American political culture that contributed to the debacle of Vietnam remains of profound importance for the war on terror.

In May, it sued one of its contractors, Team Industrial Services, as well as the city itself, contending that they contributed to the debacle.

Misperception of Asian realities and the "Europe-first" bias of the East Coast establishment, most Democrats, and the army certainly contributed to the debacle, however.

A number of shortcomings in planning and execution contributed to the debacle suffered by the Confederates.

In an interview, he defended working with a firm that he had sued for contributing to the debacle.

Bitter litigation with his licensees contributed to the brewing debacle.

That helped inflate the dot-com bubble and contributed to the Enron debacle.

Or Osman Durmus, the far-right Nationalist Action party's minister of health, who contributed to the political debacle following the 1999 earthquake by suggesting that victims should refuse Greek blood and Armenian medicine.

Outlining his objectives, Mr. Lieberman said today that the investigation by his committee would cast a broad net, examining both the decisions by members of the federal government and Congress that may have contributed to the Enron debacle.

Though it scared Wall Street and contributed to the Black Monday debacle, this proposal would not have worked either.

This chaos contributed to the health-care debacle, provoking weeks of public butt-covering and finger-pointing.