Sentence examples for disastrous raid from inspiring English sources

Others equated the operation to the government's disastrous raid on the compound near Waco, Tex., which had been ordered by Ms. Reno.

He once had to defend a disastrous raid of an overcrowded rooming house whose immigrant tenants were sent, without warning or recourse, into the street.

On Aug. 19, 1942, Commander Johnson flew in support of Canadian and British troops in the disastrous raid on the German-occupied port of Dieppe, France.

For his part, Mr. Madrazo also tried hard to tar Mr. Calderón with failures of the Fox administration, from sluggish job growth to high energy prices to a disastrous raid on striking miners last week that left three people dead.

Orphaned at the age of 12, Langlands was sent to India after taking part in the disastrous raid on Dieppe, when his commando unit captured a German heavy gun.

The White House is expecting Congress to find savings elsewhere to pay for education programs; many Democrats say there is nowhere to cut without draining money from other, critical government programs or without a politically disastrous raid on surpluses in the Social Security and Medicare programs.

After several disastrous raids last year in which planes bombed officials loyal to the Karzai government and after one incident that killed 48 civilians at a wedding party last July, the United States had appeared to restrict air assaults to more precise attacks, and only when groups of militants were engaged by coalition troops.

Think of all this as a kind of predictable equation: more disastrous raids and offensives plus more precise weapons for more attacks = the need for more troops plus more time to bring the Afghan War to a "satisfactory" conclusion.

The ATF has been dogged with controversy before that, though in the 80s and 90s the agency was accused of discriminating against female agents, and it played a key role in the disastrous raids at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas.

The ATF has been dogged with controversy before that, though – in the 80s and 90s, the agency was accused of discriminating against female agents, and it played a key role in the disastrous raids at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas.

On the Continent, raids of Allied commandos on strategic targets, culminating in the disastrous Dieppe Raid, demonstrated the Western Allies' inability to launch an invasion of continental Europe without much better preparation, equipment, and operational security.