Sentence examples for looked disastrous from inspiring English sources

It looked disastrous when US secretary of state John Kerry took the microphone, saying the draft had gone as far as it could on the question of differentiation.

Last week the Constitutional Court began hearing the case, and the opening days, in the eyes of commentators, looked disastrous for the prime minister.

To the KCA such a prospect looked disastrous for Kikuyu interests; in February 1929 Kenyatta went to London to testify against the scheme, but in London the secretary of state for colonies refused to meet with him.

Jean-Claude Juncker, who also leads the meetings of euro zone finance ministers, said that Thursday's move to delay final decisions until the second summit meeting Wednesday looked "disastrous" to the outside world.

Jean-Claude Juncker, who also chairs the meetings of euro zone finance ministers, said that Thursday's move to delay final decisions until the second summit meeting Wednesday looked "disastrous" to the outside world.

But Leonard Soloway, a producer of the play, said that sales for June "looked disastrous".

It all looks disastrous, and yet students are drawn to the discipline in ever greater numbers.

But while those matches may look disastrous on paper, no-one ever expected Britain to reach the podium.

Yes, admits a Clegg ally, it now looks disastrous to have sought a referendum on the complicated preferential voting system known as the alternative vote (AV).

So while Cameron stuck to the script today and repeated his demands – the only thing he could do given it would look disastrous to back down before beginning the proper negotiations – he seemed to realise he was in trouble.

Even if the Islamists do not so far look disastrous ones, the prospect of an Islamist president alongside an Islamist-dominated parliament where Salafists are starting to agitate for regressive social laws is worrying.