Sentence examples for fateful failure from inspiring English sources
It seems only logical that the more you know, the safer you are and the greater the chance that you will get things right.Yet Israel's most costly and fateful failure was its mistaken estimate of Egyptian and Syrian intentions, on the eve of the Yom Kippur war in 1973, when the two armies unexpectedly attacked Israel in a bid to regain the territories lost in the 1967 war.
And yet the diplomatic failures of that fateful summer led to the great slaughter of the trenches, the death of a substantial portion of the younger generation, and a virtual nervous breakdown of authority in politics and culture.
Fate has a fateful way of slipping into symphonies.
By Sept. 18, when Mr. Bush and his team had their fateful meeting in the Roosevelt Room after the failure of Lehman Brothers and the emergency rescue of A.I.G., Mr. Paulson was warning of an economic calamity greater than the Great Depression.
Which is why, when on one fateful day he was struck down by kidney failure, Prija and Sirikit were caught off-guard and devastated.
Kerr's despicable failure to warn Whitlam about what was coming was indeed a fateful twist in the tale, but it should not be forgotten that Whitlam had himself originally appointed Kerr: the palace simply signed off on the name.
The panel traced the blowout to three main factors: MANAGERIAL FOUL-UPS: The most significant failure and "root cause" of the blowout was a seemingly endless series of fateful missteps and oversights by BP and its partners — Transocean and Halliburton — that, in retrospect, could have been avoided.
During the last decade, the gradual acceptance of Toyota's Prius hybrid, sales of which passed the respectable (but not yet game-changing) million mark, held out hope for a slow trend back to that fateful turning-point of the past - until the recent bad rap of real and imagined mechanical failures.
Those were fateful words.
