Sentence examples for great debacle from inspiring English sources

What follows is a 'spiral of horror', and the great debacle.

And the prickliness shown to it by angry states such as Russia and Iran reflects an old but potent hostility to British imperialism.The sun never really setsIf empire is the backdrop of Britain's foreign entanglements, it is also implicated in the country's exposure to another great debacle, the financial crash.

Does it matter that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) now calculates that output declined "only" 6% at its peak in the great debacle of six years ago, rather than its previous estimate that the economy had shrunk more than 7%?

Interestingly, most, of these institutions played a very small role in the "great debacle".

The butterfly ballot in Palm Beach County, Fla., was one of the great debacles in election history.

The result was Iridium, the satellite phone from hell — one of the great debacles of the nineties.

The Chicago Bulls tried their darndest to insert themselves into the debate of great debacles, blowing a 35-point lead to Sacramento and getting booed off their home court.

The greatest debacle since Napoleon came to power was the Battle of Leipzig, or "Battle of the Nations" (October 16 19, 1813), in which the Grand Army was torn to shreds.

Yet even as they celebrate the Atlantic powers' greatest achievement, many will be mourning their greatest debacle: the failure to forge a common strategy on Iraq.

They seemed appropriate to a visit to the Somme, site of the war's greatest debacle.

In hindsight, there appears to have been ample evidence that Enron's board might not have been up to the job of preventing what is becoming one of the greatest debacles in the history of corporate America.