Sentence examples for disastrous meaning from inspiring English sources

Businesses have previously warned that trading under WTO rules would be disastrous, meaning the imposition of steep tariffs on goods exported to the EU, including 10% on cars and 12% on clothing.

Getting biblical Scriptures and stories wrong can have disastrous effect on the meaning or lack of meaning we each give our lives and unwittingly pass on to others.

This could result in a disastrous balkanization of oversight, meaning that every Wall Street firm would have to cut its private deal with every state attorney general or face the potential threat of fraud charges.

Others were destroyed by well-meaning, but disastrous, cleaning techniques: in 1934, when a London photographer attempted to restore a nearly century-old portrait of Dorothy Draper, the sister of the scientist and physician John Draper, he accidentally erased the image.

Well-meaning but ultimately disastrous attempts were made to drain the mangrove swamps around the penal colony.

The new film follows Joe's well-meaning but ultimately disastrous attempt to go into business with the Ganiga.

Martin may be a practising pacifist driven by faith, and his sister may genuinely believe in the traditional concept of evil, but both turn out to be slightly sad, unfulfilled figures whose well-meaning interventions have disastrous consequences.

Audiences made this a safe bet with a disastrous US opening of just $24.4m, meaning its domestic gross would be unlikely to make back even half of its $160m budget.

Well-meaning it may have been, but disastrous it has proved".

In that climate, and with the invasion of Iraq proving disastrous, I felt I needed to spell out the meaning of soft power in greater detail.

This is just one of the gadgets he uses, meaning that what might once have been a disastrous harvest is not looking as bleak as it could have done, according to Mr Singh.