Sentence examples for prevented the debacle from inspiring English sources

S.E.C. registration might well have prevented the debacle in 1998 of Long-Term creditorsanagement, whadh creditors had to cover to the tune of $3.5 billion lest it disrupt the financial system.

There are those who believe that, even in death, Milk might have prevented the debacle on Proposition 8. Wouldn't his legacy be better served by finding someone to share the mantel?

The general's remarks, in an interview at the United States military headquarters in Baghdad, may prove a melancholy epitaph for his year as America's military commander in Iraq: an acknowledgment, at least implicitly, that he may have failed to provide the close oversight last fall that could have prevented the debacle at Abu Ghraib, the prison fortress 20 miles west.

Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass). called it "one of the greatest political frauds of all time". Republicans fired back, claiming that the administration missed a number of red flags that ultimately could have prevented the debacle.

Remarkably, the institution that had the most direct responsibility to prevent the debacle — the Federal Reserve — has taken little heat for its own failures.

Republicans who had criticized the $3 million futures program today sought to prevent the debacle from tainting the agency's other work.

It even provided warning of the attack on Pearl Harbor, although this intelligence was not sent to Hawaii quickly enough to prevent the debacle.

The first is to prevent the "debacles," as he put it, that had plagued every other civilian-to-civilian transition of power.

Let's prevent the next debacle by getting rid of it.

So why has there been such widespread risk-taking?In recent years central banks could have kept rates slightly higher, thereby preventing the current debacle.

For example, giving very low doses to the first human guinea pigs can lessen negative reactions something that could have helped prevent the United Kingdom debacle.