Sentence examples for disastrous act from inspiring English sources

Cameron's disastrous act blew the NHS into fragments, designed to open everything up to competitive tendering.

This would be a disastrous act of human, social, cultural and economic self-immolation.

Dr John Chisholm, of the BMA's medical ethics committee, told delegates Brexit was "a disastrous act of national self-harm".

This disastrous act, itself the product of the undermining of Xhosa society by white penetration, caused widespread starvation and effectively ended Xhosa military resistance for two decades.

Just how much power Black will have over the public perception of this latest and disastrous act in her career remains an open question — but for Mayor Bloomberg, who this morning said, "I take full responsibility for the fact that this has not worked out as expected," the bungle is an embarrassment.

This disastrous act forced Wiessner and Lama into a brutal descent without food or shelter that they only narrowly survived, and led, indirectly, to the deaths of the climber Dudley Wolfe and of Pasang Kikuli, Pasang Kitar and Phinsoo (three Sherpas who valiantly tried to save Wolfe).

This disastrous criminal act twenty years later is still the main cause of the death among veterans and civilians who lived in the polluted areas.

But there is an ominously long list of disastrous second-act chief executives.

Michael Dell's homecoming to the computer-maker he founded has not gone so well, and he is now hoping that taking the company private will finally do the trick.Indeed, there is an ominously long list of disastrous second-act chief executives.

He never made that disastrous poet's act of asking permission for his irascible voice.

(Many clocks were disposed of by their owners, who consequently relied more on clocks in public places, and the effect on the clock-making industry was so disastrous that the act was repealed the following year).