Sentence examples for debacle as from inspiring English sources

She's spent her time releasing novels all linked in some way to the debacle, as well as her autobiography in 2001.

Not only do they demand too much in the way of hardware, both have been been written off as a debacle as bad as the Windows Vista disaster.

But he added, "It is a debacle as far as the government process is concerned, and that's Governor Pataki's supposed responsibility and he bears the blame".

The savings and loan debacle, as well as a later merger wave among banks, hastened the end of many of the city's largest institutions, including First Interstate and the Security Pacific Bank.

Former chief executive Nick Buckles survived the Olympics debacle, as well as an aborted £5.2bn bid for Danish cleaning company ISS in 2011, but finally left the company in May with a £1.2m payoff after the company issued a profit warning.

This means that he had access to officials involved in the Climate Orbiter debacle, as well as to those involved in more triumphant projects, like the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, or MER-1, which, in January, 2004, landed at a site near the planet's equator that probably once held liquid water.

Yes, no question that S&P's credibility now has been compromised by their failure to act earlier during the collateralized mortgage obligations and credit default swaps debacle; as well the failure to monitor Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

"The debacle," as Lonnie refers to it, was the result.

Carey, to her credit, was the only one frank or funny enough to acknowledge the debacle as it was unfolding.

Some here see the MG debacle as a forerunner to the risky trading schemes that sank Enron.

Yet the origins of this debacle are as much European as British.