Sentence examples for disaster engineered from inspiring English sources

The next lesson from this disaster engineered by well-meaning folk is that the machine has broken down.

Below is a manifesto (see The Guardian, Comment is Free) by citizens from across Europe who 1) object to the choice of "solutions" adopted by European governments confronted with the financial disaster engineered by the financial sector: cuts in social security, cuts in wages, cuts in pensions, massive reductions in government employment.

After the disaster, engineers refined the process of applying insulating foam to the tank to prevent the situation that doomed Columbia.

In the weeks and hours leading up to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, engineers were compelled to make a series of decisions: what sort of well-casing to use; how long to circulate and when to remove the heavy drilling fluid or "mud" from the hole; how to interpret various tests.

Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, engineers are giving the epicenter of the long-defunct facility a facelift.

To avert disaster, engineers tried to shed water through the underground spillways, but the dam began to shudder and groan.

This disaster was engineered by a failure to plan and communicate.

Although maltreatment of transient processes can result in disasters, engineers in most cases attain solutions through enumerating possible surge scenarios and less through optimization.

She is also tiny and platinum blond, with a look of engineered disaster about her, as though some socialite had been tossed into a dryer.

After a report to the mayor called the system an "unmitigated disaster," Mayor Beame engineered Dr. Holloman's removal in 1977.

It's hard not to think of it as an epic-scale disaster that seems engineered to illustrate man's folly — as if the Titanic, after sinking, had washed ashore and been beached as a warning.