Sentence examples for string of blunders from inspiring English sources

"A situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations".

omnishambles, n. (informal): a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterised by a string of blunders and miscalculations.

Despite serious rifts among the rebels including between Sun and Song and a string of blunders in their plots, the revolution was successful virtually by accident.

It would be system-threatening — a mistake on the scale of the string of blunders by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev that doomed the Soviet Union.

The change comes after Japan's years of economic drift and a string of blunders by the new prime minister, Yoshiro Mori.

BEIJING — Chinese investigators delivered a long-awaited report on Wednesday on the deadly July 23 high-speed train crash in the eastern coastal city of Wenzhou, citing a string of blunders, including serious design flaws in crucial signaling equipment.

A string of recent blunders have made their case more powerfully than years of lobbying.

A string of police blunders led to the innocent electrician being held down by police and shot repeatedly in the head.

But Mr. Terhune's tenure was marred by a string of bureaucratic blunders beginning with the improper release of a rapist last spring.

On June 4th a string of management blunders drew to a fitting close with Mr Kozlowski's indictment on a grubby tax-evasion charge.Robert Morgenthau, New York's district attorney, must still prove his case.

The home secretary becomes the highest-ranking casualty of sweeping changes to the cabinet and will return to the backbenches after a string of Home Office blunders regarding the deportation of foreign criminals.