Sentence examples for potential debacle from inspiring English sources

He plays it out for a bit, demanding "cultural tolerance", and then flips the potential debacle with a stunning volley of bait-and-switches.

General Clark's speech seemed intended to bridge the insurgent aspects of Dr. Dean's candidacy and the concerns of the party regulars who have viewed the prospect of a Dean nomination as a potential debacle for the party.

Now, with Congress entering a winter of discontent, each side expressed outrage — much of it manufactured — on Wednesday and blamed the other side for the potential debacle looming at the end of the week.

"We just averted another potential debacle," one south-east Asian diplomat told AFP, referring to a 2012 summit in Cambodia at which the bloc for the first time failed to issue a joint statement because of disagreements on the South China Sea.

While it's a point well taken that publishing the 1918 influenza genome was "extremely foolish" at best, Ray Kurzweil and Bill Joy give only more life to the makings of a potential debacle whose formula they say shouldn't have been publicized in the first place.

BEIJING — In a series of dramatically conflicting developments on Wednesday, the Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng left American custody under disputed circumstances, and what briefly looked like a deft diplomatic achievement for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton turned into a potential debacle.

Rapidly, it became evident that the company was facing a potential financial debacle.

In other words, mandatory arbitration will probably work out well for Chipotle in the long run, even if the company faces a potential legal debacle right now.

So If Kerry holds true to his own public assurances that he would never negotiate away the store he will be heralded as a secretary of state who remained steadfast to his principles, protected the President from a potential Congressional debacle, and never lost sight of his oft-stated goal to verifiably impede Iran's breakout time to develop a nuclear bomb.

This approach has the same blame-shifting, mud-slinging potential as the debacle at Lloyd's in the 1990s.

This whole debt ceiling debacle and its potential consequences are similarly confusing, especially if you're just tuning in now.