Wars without a political consensus behind them have a tendency to prove disastrous.
It said social tensions were building up and the number of protests was rapidly increasing, "indicating a tendency towards a disastrous loss of control".
But Mr. Baker also makes clear that up until then the disastrous post-invasion strategy reflected his tendency to set policy but not keep tabs on its execution.
Eliot's niece Theodora has tea with her in Paris and spiritedly opposes the family tendency to deplore Eliot's disastrous marriage: "Aunt Vivien [sic] whom I like better every time I see her.
Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences.
That tendency can be a problem anytime, but it is disastrous in a crisis, when people need straightforward information and companies need to show that they care.
With the current tendency of increasing minimally invasive cosmetic surgeries, some rare but disastrous complications of facial filler injections come into sight, such as visual loss.
Some Tory lawmakers grumble about his lack of accessibility and his tendency to take their support for granted, something he did with disastrous consequences in the parliamentary vote on Syria that he lost.
Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair warned that it would be disastrous to elect him; that Labour would be dragged back to the medievalism of Militant Tendency.
