Sentence examples for dam fiasco from inspiring English sources

On Wednesday, as Mrs. Clinton traveled to Myanmar, the English-language edition of Global Times ran an editorial on U.S.-Myanmar relations that highlighted the Myitsone Dam fiasco and concluded with this: "China welcomes the opening-up of Myanmar, but firmly opposes it stepping on China's interests".

As Barcott writes, "the dam was a fiasco: environmentally devastating, economically unsound, geologically suspect and stinking of monopoly profiteering".

The big prize the re-opening of the road to the Kajaki dam to refurbish its power station remains elusive.The British army had hoped to redeem itself after the fiasco of the unpopular war in Iraq by taking on the "good" fight in Afghanistan.

Even so, Ekran, the company promoting the project, is said to think that it can raise enough money from Malaysian sources alone.In this section A flood of fiascos Dambuilders and dambusters When size matters The ultimate fridge magnet ReprintsThe massive Three Gorges dam which China started to build in 1994 will displace up to 1.3m people.

The same study argued that, thanks to cost overruns and lower-than-expected generation at peak times, it would have made more sense to build a gas-fired plant.To avoid a similar fiasco, the World Bank is insisting on umpteen studies and safeguards for the Nam Theun II, a big dam it is financing on a tributary of the Mekong in Laos.

Fiasco naturally ensues.

What a fiasco!

It was a complete fiasco.

"The pug fiasco," Shay said.

This was a fiasco.

Lupe Fiasco defended Lamar.