Sentence examples for disastrous power from inspiring English sources

The critics are lining up to assign responsibility for the disastrous power problem last week.

And then there is our present culture, based on the illusion of endless cheap energy – perhaps the toughest nut of all to crack: far easier to cut bills with environmentally disastrous power sources than to change behaviour (even if it could save money, create jobs and protect peoples' interests in the future).

Your editorial about the disastrous power failure of last August ("Origins of a Blackout," Nov. 20) points out that "the rules now in place" -- ensuring reliability in the provision of electrical energy -- "are advisory, and failure to observe them carries no penalty".

As a result, Americans are "turning backs on the hopeful consensus that formed in the 1960s around King's vision of a single, shared community".In New York, the new militancy of the late 1960s and the ideal of black power produced the disastrous conflict over "community control", especially in schools.

Not long after, he sponsored the disastrous electric power deregulation scheme that led to widespread market manipulation, blackouts, and the enrichment of Enron and other corporate wrongdoers.

And, as fate would have it, he is responsible for California's structural budget deficit, the disastrous electric power deregulation scheme that enriched Enron and turned out California's lights, and the hypocritical nastiness of the debate over illegal immigration.

To have the same individual who owns Italy's private TV channels as head of the government has been a disastrous concentration of power.

After being deposed in 1970, he threw his support behind the Khmer Rouge and became a key factor in its disastrous rise to power.

Referring to TV Corp's acquisition of US and UK post-production companies, outside broadcast firm Visions - since disposed of - and a disastrous foray into power boat racing under the former chief executive, Chris Rowlands, Mr Jones said new management would help to restore growth.

But if California proved that it could defy the dire predictions and make of mockery of the energy-guzzling cliché often applied here, the state is still stuck with a huge burden from its disastrous experiment in power deregulation.

But either way, after a dozen disastrous years in power, New Labour will disappear as an experiment in ultraliberalism, with half its MPs losing their seats.