Sentence examples for near debacle from inspiring English sources

Just over 100 years ago Lord Esher made recommendations in light of the near debacle of the Boer war.

The issue is one of the most fundamental in the contentious effort to overhaul regulation after the financial crisis, and addresses one of the primary lessons of the near debacle: that no one had been assigned to ensure the stability of the system as a whole and detect the kinds of excessive risk-taking and imbalances that could rock an entire economy.

This is the same point the forces and government reached after the near-debacle of the Boer war in 1903.

Then there was the near-debacle of the dog and the tree stump, or, more precisely, the dog and the child actor disguised as a tree stump.

There is no better time for a radical rethink and reform of security and military policy than in the immediate aftermath of near-debacle.

Thierry Henry, who has long lamented a lack of cohesion on the back line, sat at his locker after the match, towel draped over his head, and declined to discuss the near-debacle.

Despite the near-debacle, the commitment of the Sa'iqa, along with the paratroopers of the 85th Battalion, had actually reinforced Egyptian defenses and helped defeat the Israeli attack.

Since that June 2006 increase in the federal funds rate to a now unimaginable 5.25 per cent, America has been through the wringer of a subprime mortgage debacle, a near-collapse of the financial system in late 2008, followed by the deepest recession since the 1930s.

Within days of the attack, Army historians and tactical analysts arrived in eastern Afghanistan to review the debacle near Wanat, interviewing soldiers who survived the intense battle, in which outnumbered Americans exchanged gunfire for more than four hours with insurgents, often at distances closer than 50 feet.

Admittedly, Vaughn's film is nowhere near as shambolic as that debacle, but Firth's dapper English gent could be the son of Niven's Sir James Bond.

The Oklahoma University frat debacle was a near textbook example of that.