Sentence examples for disastrous by from inspiring English sources

We know that it implements cuts that will be experienced as disastrous by about half a million very poor people a year.

That left Luongo on the Canucks bench in a baseball cap and Gillis trying to make this sound less disastrous by saying things like, "We have two great goaltenders; I don't see how that's a problem".

Moreover, the government's much-criticised top-down reorganisation of the health service has been described as "disastrous" by the King's Fund, a think-tank, in a report released on February 6th.

"But for a club that has been very poor and disastrous, by all accounts from other people, we lie four points off top four.

Not disastrous by any means, but not very cheerful either.

This isolationism on the Spanish war would later be identified as disastrous by Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles.

In Rochester, the Tories face another potentially disastrous by-election after its MP Mark Reckless became the second Tory to defect to Ukip.

Hailed as a saviour when he took office in 1998, as the country teetered on the edge of bankruptcy, he has been brought low by corruption scandals that have landed two of his sons in jail and, after some disastrous by-elections, helped hand the opposition a majority in parliament just ahead of December's presidential election.

In July 1962, in the wake of some disastrous Conservative by-election performances, Macmillan sacked seven cabinet ministers in what was known as the "Night of the Long Knives".

To echo a question raised by an earlier, disastrous adventure by Washington's best and brightest: Why are we in Iraq?

Reducing these emissions by as much as half by 2050 is essential to avoid disastrous consequences by the end of this century, and we must begin immediately.