Sentence examples for spectacular disaster from inspiring English sources

FOR American investors, the telecoms sector has been a spectacular disaster.

And not a word about the spectacular disaster of the illegal alien shamnesty, which will be the everlasting stain Rove leaves behind".

One of the U-2 surveillance flights that Eisenhower ordered ended in spectacular disaster on May Day 1960, when the Soviets shot down the aircraft and captured the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, alive.

A prime suspect in Saturday's East Side crane collapse — a spectacular disaster across two Manhattan blocks that has now claimed seven lives and is expected to cost untold millions — is a $50 piece of nylon webbing that investigators suspect may have broken while hoisting a six-ton piece of steel.

The rigger, William Rapetti, has also been charged with criminally negligent homicide, reckless endangerment and second-degree assault in the spectacular disaster, in which the 22-story crane plunged across East 51st Street, piercing one building and tearing terraces off another, the people said.

Kiva is proof that great ideas can be born in the midst of spectacular disaster.

No spectacular disasters befell.

Despite it all, life in most of Russia, for now, still seems to muddle along without spectacular disasters, albeit inefficiently and uncomfortably.

Mr. Byers's description of the hailstorm that destroys Clyde's chance for college, for instance, is lyrical and exact, and quietly more upsetting than the more spectacular disasters that happen to other characters.

Except for spectacular disasters such as Zimbabwe, where the economy has nearly halved in size since 1999 while inflation orbits at around 4,500%, most African governments are trying to stabilise their notoriously precarious economies.

As an engineering student, you're shown all kinds of spectacular disasters in order to convey to you the importance of what you're doing, and you can take away one of two things from that: either you conclude that you'd better do a darn good job or you decide that you don't want to be doing that kind of work at all.