Sentence examples for financial fiasco from inspiring English sources

If the current financial fiasco hasn't taught us the value of such standards, then nothing will.

Subsequent fee reductions didn't stop America's first automobile toll road from becoming a financial fiasco.

And then, suddenly, it wasn't symbolic any more, and we came close to a self-induced international financial fiasco.

Mr. Volcker's resolute call to reach down into the mire of our financial fiasco and make the necessary structural changes through laws is exactly right.

He did say that Mr. McDaniel and Moody's were no better or worse at predicting the financial fiasco than virtually every other player on Wall Street.

As a stopgap, Raytheon and the science foundation may turn to outer space's biggest financial fiasco, the Iridium global satellite phone system.

"This is the latest in a series of financial fiascos in the MoD under David Cameron," he said.

His drawings -- you could call them maps or charts, and they also have some connection with 19th-century panoramas -- track global financial fiascos and related political shenanigans, mostly of the 1980's and 90's.

"I Am Not Master of Events" Two of the greatest financial fiascos of all time took place at the same time and were instigated by two acquaintances: the Mississippi Bubble, on which John Law at first made a vast fortune and gained sway over French finances; and the South Sea Bubble, launched by Law and Thomas Pitt, Jr., Lord Londonderry, his main partner in England.

London Pleasure Gardens, E16, Fri to 7 Jul SR Despite eventually sharing the mantle of the world's most famous nightclub with NYC's Studio 54, Manchester's FAC51 Haçienda got off to a pretty shaky start, followed by several years of various financial fiascos.

The stand-off that occurred between the White House and congressional Republicans in July 2011 over raising the debt ceiling was a political calamity and near-financial fiasco.