Sentence examples for disastrous plans from inspiring English sources

He became a major benefactor in the city and was one of the most important figures to resist the disastrous plans of modernisers and the railway companies to demolish the city's famous medieval walls.

He is driven less by bold vision than by a desire to get elected (and settle scores), less by real strength than by unfocused ambition, and less by courage than by an almost passive acquiescence in disastrous plans that the people he empowered pursued in his name.

John Pugh, the Liberal Democrat education spokesman, said: "The government should be committing to protect education funding from cradle to college – not focusing on their disastrous plans to overhaul school ownership which will increase pressure on school budgets while doing nothing to drive up standards".

The government's disastrous plan for a third runway at Heathrow Airport is on the ropes.

That is why the NUS will be fighting with all its strength to demand it ditches this disastrous plan.

La Scala also appears to have learned from the disastrous planning that plagued the closing of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in the late 1990's.

The liberal group MoveOn.org said on Sunday that it was "extremely troubling that it now appears that some Democrats are willing to give in to Republican demands to make this already disastrous plan worse for working families".

In the early 2000s executives at General Motors were told to wear badges with "29" on their lapels, as part of a disastrous plan to get back to a 29% market share in America.

Clarke, who had initially refused to apologise in a round of TV interviews, wrote to a victim of attempted rape who had broken down in tears when she confronted him on a Radio 5 Live show over his "disastrous" plan.

Clarke, who had initially refused to apologise in a round of TV interviews, wrote to a victim of attempted rape who had broken down in tears when she confronted him on the Radio 5 Live show over his "disastrous" plan.

Bob Herbert, in his column today, says that he has two pieces of advice for Obama: do something about the employment crisis, and "put the brakes on your potentially disastrous plan to escalate the war in Afghanistan".