Sentence examples for proved calamitous for from inspiring English sources

The move proved calamitous for Time Warner when the company was criticized by consumers, editorial writers and politicians in New York and Washington.

The treatment of both contests as foregone conclusions proved calamitous for Remainers and Democrats by inducing complacency among supporters and galvanising their opponents.

For the Dutch Republic, 1672 proved calamitous, becoming known as the "disaster year" (Dutch: rampjaar) because of the Franco-Dutch War and the Third Anglo-Dutch War in which the Netherlands were invaded by France under Louis XIV, England, Münster, and Cologne.

Certainly, Berman's hopes for delivering reason and freedom at gunpoint have proved calamitous.

Ritzenhein began his transformation last fall, but the switch proved calamitous.

But the long years of European equivocation and denial have proved calamitous.

His former partner was "more conservative" and a visit from her parents proved calamitous.

It accepted that it would not be straightforward, "but the long years of European equivocation and denial have proved calamitous".

The suspension of Mare Nostrum proved calamitous, with ill-fated migrant and refugee crossings seeming to increase weekly in winter and early spring.

Their two collaborations, the dire romcom Born Yesterday and the wretched drama Paradise, proved calamitous, but not as bad (what possibly could be?) as Madonna's dunderheaded pairings.

All seemed to be well until a slight shift in our center of gravity nearly proved calamitous.