Sentence examples for heading for a disaster from inspiring English sources

Silicon microchips, the thumbnail-sized microprocessors that constitute the brains of a PC, are heading for a disaster created by their own remarkable success.

Iain Duncan Smith's flagship welfare reform programme, under which most benefits will be rolled into one universal credit, is heading for a disaster, according to the government's poverty tsar, Frank Field.

It likens Russia to the Titanic, heading for a disaster.

However, some Labor strategists believed the party was heading for a disaster, with few economic accomplishments to point to and an electorate whose emotions would have cooled before polling day.

"Or," in the words of the immortal Dr. Peter Venkman, "you can accept the fact that this city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions".

Unless reversed, the conference is headed for a disaster because the ground rules of the UNCCC, unless reversed, allow each government to set its own policies, to have no mandated international inspections of emissions, and no penalties for non-compliance of goals that can't be verified in the first place.

In his new book, he challenges those nabobs of negativity who argue that the world cannot possibly feed 9 billion mouths, that Africa is destined to fail and that the planet is heading for a climate disaster.

If we don't prepare ourselves we are heading for a big disaster". Coffee drinkers may see the effect in their cups, but the 25m rural households around the globe whose livelihoods depend on coffee will be hit far harder.

Fergus Wilson, Britain's most controversial buy-to-let landlord, is increasing rents across his 900 houses in Kent by up to 33% and filling his properties with eastern European migrants – while at the same time saying that Britain is heading for a "housing disaster".

The UN children's charity, Unicef, has warned that the Central African Republic is heading for a humanitarian disaster, as civilians suffer amid ongoing ethnic violence.

Indeed, the next few years may be our last best chance to change our energy course before we lock-in a heading for a certain climate disaster.