Sentence examples for debacle down from inspiring English sources

The country's founder and former prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, boiled the whole debacle down to one word: complacency.

Kevin Pietersen, who was dismissed from the team in the wake of the debacle down under, watched from a corporate box as England reached 27-0 at lunch before falling apart.

I arrived in Bali just after that particular debacle simmered down, and I've found the party goers here surprisingly straight.

It was not only the sausage debacle that brought down the ministers.

He returned to the U.S. the following spring and then, a year later, went to Somalia; he flew home after the Black Hawk Down debacle.

Unlike the Americans, who hastily left Somalia after 18 soldiers were killed during the infamous Black Hawk Down debacle in 1993, or the United Nations mission that folded not long afterward, the African Union has pressed on.

The accounting debacle that brought down Enron, then its auditing firm, Arthur Andersen, and then WorldCom, gradually crushed investors' faith in the American financial system, leaving them distrustful of financial statements and the people who create them.

4) Benito Mussolini's decision in October 1940 to focus the bulk of his war effort not on North Africa, where the British were vulnerable, but on the invasion of Greece, which turned into a debacle that tied down German troops and eventually led to his own downfall.

Japanese stem cell debacle could bring down RIKEN center.

First there was the Enron debacle which brought down the merchant energy sector.

After the debacle of Blackhawk Down in Mogadishu in 1993, the Pentagon steered clear of Somalia for years.