Sentence examples for like a debacle from inspiring English sources

This whole process has made the accreditation process look like a debacle.

Or, if you were a defender of the Bush Administration, everything since the invasion was flattened out into a simple case of stuff happening and freedom being born, in spite of the best efforts of the press to make it look like a debacle.

But then he said conservatives are twisting the facts, making it seem like a debacle when electric cars could really be considered a technology as cool as the iPod.

"Ruinous", "disastrous", "a total write-off", "a debacle like the old days," "the year's worst".

After a debacle like Enron's, regulators may begin to examine disclosure lapses.

A debacle like that which destroyed health-care reform in Mr Clinton's first term could not happen in Britain.

Last year, just before he became prime minister, Gordon Brown announced that he had asked cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell to ensure that a debacle like the Iraq dossier would never happen again (not in those words, of course).

WASHINGTON — The implicit promise of Barack Obama's presidency, delivered during the 2008 campaign and again repeatedly since then, was that government would not face a debacle like the recent malfunction of the technology behind the president's new health care marketplaces.

Was the company trying to avoid a debacle like the one Facebook experienced, when its shares plunged right after the I.P.O? Was it starting low and leaving room to boost the range once executives meet with investors on the company's road show and gauge their interest?

But with fighting continuing, and with both the Congolese government of President Laurent Kabila and his armed opponents becoming increasingly uncooperative with United Nations teams, there are fears of a debacle like the one in Sierra Leone last month, when hundreds of United Nations troops were taken hostage.

He didn't pick himself, after all, but the South Australian quick timed his run into the Test side both brilliantly – in that the end of the Rod Marsh selection era put literally anyone in contention – but also disastrously, in that he should be called up for a debacle like the Hobart Test.