Sentence examples for disastrous on from inspiring English sources

But while those matches may look disastrous on paper, no-one ever expected Britain to reach the podium.

Many of us, however, are certain of one thing: these will be disastrous on all levels.

All of which sounds a bit disastrous on paper.

The effect was disastrous on the country and on Ibn Saʿūd.

More disastrous, on a symbolic level, regular Pepsi fell behind Diet Coke in sales — a Battle of Bosworth Field-like event in the war of the colas.

It is this extremism that is driving the burgeoning sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shia, potentially disastrous on a hitherto undreamed-of scale.

Struggling teachers did not get the help they needed and disastrous ones stayed on the job.

This had a disastrous knock-on effect.

You both brake just in time to avoid a disastrous head-on collision.

Note the date, and bear in mind the sexually disastrous goings-on in Ian McEwan's Chesil Beach at the time!

Thus, for humans, there are potentially disastrous knock-on consequences for being observed doing the wrong thing.