Sentence examples for debacle off from inspiring English sources

Now imagine the increased danger and difficulty of trying to cope with a similar debacle off Alaska's northern coast, where waters are sealed by pack ice for eight months of each year, gales roil fog-shrouded seas with waves up to 20 feet high and the temperature, combined with the wind chill, feels like 10 degrees below zero by late September.

But that was also just before the Enron debacle kicked off a year of corporate-malfeasance headlines.

The table below features five public energy-trading companies that took a hit in the past few weeks thanks to the Enron debacle and are off an average 30% from their 52-week highs.

Cohosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler referred to the debacle right off the bat.

At the front of ministers' minds will be the forest sell-off debacle earlier this year, which saw one of the first defeats of a major coalition government policy.

Such a deal, part of his larger plan to expand trade between the two countries, could help stave off debacles like the California brownout and liberate the United States from its addiction to Persian Gulf oil, Mr. Bush says.

Monkey, who is also a keen football fan, feels that after the debacle of the World Cup perhaps Rooney would be better off concentrating on his own game.

O'Shea deserves significant credit for the club's progress on and off the field since his appointment following the Bloodgate debacle of 2009.

The best way, likely the only way, to head off this debacle is with the start of serious negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.

Sprint's Nextel deal is widely viewed as a high-priced debacle; Sprint recently wrote off most of the cost of the $35 billion transaction.

McDonald's #McDStories PR debacle started the year off with a bang, quickly followed by Blackberry-maker RIM's own hashtag horror story.