Sentence examples for had a fiasco from inspiring English sources

"Instead we had a fiasco".

Napoleon soon realized he had a fiasco on his hands and wanted out.

Ford had a fiasco four decades ago with Edsel, a poorly selling line of cars that competed against makes like Oldsmobile; the Edsel name even became synonymous with failure in American consumer marketing.

Perspectives included the following comments: "If we had a massive anthrax exposure in the middle of Atlanta tomorrow, we'd probably have a fiasco.

Rezaian's detention – a situation the secretary of Iran's own human rights council has called a "fiasco" – has caused much embarrassment to the president, who has sought to cast himself as a reformer.

Belatedly realizing it had a public relations' fiasco on its hands -- a humanitarian relief flotilla in international waters is not the same thing as impoverished Palestinians trapped in the Gaza enclave, Hamas or not -- Israel wisely decided to repatriate some 700 flotilla participants rather than continue a spectacle in which its image could only go from very bad to worse.

MPs said it could cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds and had been a "fiasco".

He'd even live-streamed from Seoul recently, while attending a friend's birthday party, but the whole thing had been a fiasco.

At a campaign rally in his birth-town of Rouen in Normandy, Hollande said Sarkozy's record in office had been a "fiasco".

Liberal Democrat Judith Woodman said the budget process had been a fiasco that left Cardiff's reputation "in tatters".

Sir Richard Branson says the bidding for the West Coast Main Line franchise had been a "fiasco" but welcomed the decision to restart the process.