Sentence examples for operational shambles from inspiring English sources

Finally, a series of high-profile ETA arrests and arms seizures over the last three years has reduced the group to operational shambles.

But even as Mr. Ebbers boasted of WorldCom's successes and even as enraptured investors drove up the company's stock price, behind the scenes the company was already a financial and operational shambles, according to interviews with current and former executives, lawyers and government officials, as well as internal documents and court and government records.

"There's a pattern whereby Israeli forces use civilian structures or privately-owned land for training or operational purposes, often leaving the area in shambles and riddled with unused weaponry," Ivan Karakashian, an advocacy coordinator at Defense for Children International Palestine (DCI-Palestine), told VICE News.

Utter shambles".

It was in shambles.

This is a shambles.

It is a shambles.

It was a shambles.

They are a shambles.

In short, a shambles".

The economy in shambles.