Sentence examples for disastrous element from inspiring English sources

On Saturday afternoon, midway through the unusual and grueling Olympic ordeal that is the modern pentathlon, after the competitors have dueled with épées and swum 200 meters, they will arrive in leafy Greenwich Park to be confronted with the most irksome and potentially disastrous element of their day: riding a horse they have only just met.

The frozen relations between Poland and Lithuania were one of the most disastrous elements of regional diplomacy in the inter-war years.

Mr. Newman added, "Therein lies the root cause of this occurrence; without a disastrous failure of one of those elements, the explosion could not have occurred".

There will, over the course of the next week, be serious consideration given to all the elements that made this such a disastrous tour.

It's my hope that the corrupt element within the church, whose effects have been disastrous, will continue to be exposed truthfully and dealt with decisively.

The relentless violence and its disastrous economic impact may finally turned the disc also for this element of the population.

But I think the Obama administration made a disastrous error in centralizing so many of the cost-control elements of the new health care system.

Campbell Newman has apologised to voters and rolled back some elements of Queensland's bikie laws after a disastrous LNP defeat in the Stafford byelection.

Mixing ideas from Belgium, Italy and France with elements of a British pub might sound potentially disastrous, but the Kitchings have made it work.

Still, it was enough to redeem herself after a disastrous short program, in which she had errors on such basic elements as a spin and a spiral.

We knew that if our leaders viewed international trade as a foreign policy tool and a path to cheap imports, rather than as an essential element for economic growth and domestic production, the consequences would be disastrous.