Sentence examples for disastrous close from inspiring English sources

Our despair grew, and the European Kitesurfing Championships sputtered to a disastrous close.

This is proving to be a disastrous close to his round; he's three over for the last four holes, and looking like dropping at least one here, maybe more.

Yachvili's place-kicking was almost impeccable - with no repetition of the disastrous close-range miss that lost Biarritz a critical European Cup tie against Cardiff in January -and he alternated neatly with Frédéric Michalak at outside-half, as Gerard Merceron did with Fabien Galthié during the last French grand slam.

Parnell's struggles thus far — and the Mets' hand-wringing over how to finish games — have called to mind the team's disastrous closer-by-committee situation in 2008, after Billy Wagner was injured.

Earlier this month, Citizens Defending Libraries, an advocacy group, gathered on the steps of City Hall to protest the selling of libraries for real estate gains, namely the Brooklyn Heights Library — which is part of a different system — "that closely replicates the disastrous and secretive closing of the Donnell Library".

Disaster States Florida leads the nation in disastrous weather, with close to $1.6 billion a year in damage from hurricanes, tornadoes and floods.

But they have also insisted on one disastrous decision, to close 12 nuclear reactors, which provide half of Sweden's power, and championed one dubious one, to stand aloof from European economic and monetary union.

The failure to replace council housing stock sold off in the 1980s – a policy so disastrous that a close friend of Margaret Thatcher tells me even she regretted it – was great for the buy-to-let landlords who snapped so much of it up but terrible for the next generation.

A bad first impression can be disastrous: it can close doors and narrow your opportunities.

This highly polarized environment could lead to the disastrous mistake of closing Indian Point.

An attempt to poison the water supply would of course be disastrous, but simply closing the road isn't going to keep that from happening.