Sentence examples for ghastly disaster from inspiring English sources

And Obama's efforts to clean up the CIA could prove politically terminal if the continental US is attacked again by terrorists, or US forces in the field suffer some ghastly disaster because of "intelligence failure".

Eisenhower had already prepared his resignation note, Churchill thought 20,000 might die by morning and Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, thought that 'at its worst, it may well be the most ghastly disaster of the whole war'.

The same night, the chief of the imperial general staff, General Alan Brooke, confided to his diary that '... it may well be the most ghastly disaster of the whole war.

The more life-threatening and ghastly the disaster, and the greater the degree of what is called "exposure" -- when a person experiences direct and continuous visual, olfactory, and auditory sensations after the disaster -- the more likely a traumatic state will ensue.

Blackwell recounts his ghastly travels through environmental disaster zones — including the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and the Yamuna River in India, "a stream of human sewage" — and vividly portrays their polluters and the crusaders who are trying to clean them up.

Hoover's ghastly mistakes brought on the disaster and then deepened it.

First, the disaster was not as ghastly as the media painted it.

(Thein Sein was in charge of disaster preparedness, and the ghastly carnage would have presented him with a shocking demonstration of the regime's ineptitude).

The disaster that unfolded closely followed the ghastly precedent set by the Soviet Union.

I voted to remain in the EU because the eurozone is a disaster and Germany needed an active British presence to help rescue Europe from this ghastly mistake.

Ghastly values, ghastly people.