Sentence examples for debacle called from inspiring English sources

Lawmakers probing WorldCom's $3.85 billion accounting debacle called for prison time for those responsible, while former executives refused to testify to a congressional committee.

That provides part of its advantage over big competitors, including YC, which McClure, whose metaphor-making ability may have been impacted by the Harambe debacle, called "the big gorilla on the hill".

Doers and doings in business, entertainment and technology: Lawmakers probing WorldCom's $3.85 billion accounting debacle called for prison time for those responsible, and former Chief Executive Bernard Ebbers Bernard Ebbers flexed his right to keep silent before the House Financial Services Committee, probing the unraveling of the No. 2 U.S. long-distance carrier.

The debacle called into question the fate of the nascent tour.

He also took direct issue with an earlier and very public and misleading statement that the entire affair was but "a tempest in a teapot" as bruited loudly and clearly by the bank's Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon at the very outset of the bank's public disclosure of the growing debacle, calling it instead a "perfect storm of individual misconduct and inadequate internal controls".

McKinney ran a last-minute ad after the debacle that called Foley "arrogant, ill-informed, uncaring".

Even though the league has argued that game-calling would improve with each passing week, Monday night's debacle clearly calls that logic into question.

For in the big world beyond the vastly expensive Beltway sandbox of vicious political ping pong and hyper-partisan gamesmanship, China's official press agency is using the debacle to call for "a de-Americanized world".

He is also flogging a new book, called "Debacle" (Wiley).

The secretary's taking responsibility for the website debacle, as she called it, could have added to public unease about the government's ability to manage such an enormous undertaking.

Tony Hay, a Republican legislator from the town of Southeast who encountered his own public relations debacle when he called for the Immigration and Naturalization Service to investigate Hispanic immigrants in the village of Brewster, said the rumors have been circulating nonstop about Mr. Listrom's departure.