Sentence examples for disastrous struggle from inspiring English sources

An open rupture resulted, and a long, disastrous struggle for southern Italy developed between the two factions.

Thirty miles to the southwest, Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia was beginning its disastrous struggle against Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in what would be known as the Second Battle of Bull Run.

He weathered the storm over "Made in Heaven," regained his balance with "Puppy," but then virtually sank from sight during the disastrous, decadelong struggle to complete his next, far more ambitious series of works.

This strong belief is the bedrock of the IIFC's bid for self-preservation in an artistic scene struggling to flourish amidst disastrous military conflict.

The turn to armed struggle proved disastrous.

Futile Hollywood scriptwriting paid the bills while he struggled with disastrous novels like The World in the Evening and A Meeting by the River.

Boris Johnson struggles in disastrous radio interview.

His father, from a glass-making family, struggled in the disastrous postwar period, and joined the German army in 1929.

They work well for highly skilled, highly motivated students but are potentially disastrous for large numbers of struggling students who lack basic competencies and require remedial education.

The economic downturn that began in late 2008 has been disastrous for British Airways, which is struggling to adjust to steep declines in revenue from its first-class and business-class service — the mainstay of its business.

Last year, Americans watched in mounting fury as the oil industry and the federal government struggled for five disastrous months to contain the much larger BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.