Sentence examples for that failed spectacularly from inspiring English sources

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It was a project that failed spectacularly.

Since becoming independent of the government in 2002, the banks had pursued a strategy of borrowing money abroad and offering high-interest loans to online lenders a strategy that failed spectacularly when the global credit crisis hit.

The largest component in the current discussions are tied to the financial crisis, and is thought largely to be tied to Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual, two banks that failed spectacularly.

In reaction to more than a decade of free-market reforms that failed spectacularly to end poverty but exacerbated extraordinary levels of inequality, left-leaning governments have been elected in one country after another - this week in Bolivia.

Its investment-banking business did particularly well, helping offset losses in its consumer-credit portfolio.Kerry Killinger, the former boss of Washington Mutual, a bank that failed spectacularly during the financial maelstrom of September 2008, testified at a Senate hearing on the crisis.

Hell, no!" It was arguably the high point for both the movie and National Lampoon itself, once a comedic standard-bearer that for most of the last two decades has run on little more than fumes, licensing its name to dozens of movies that failed spectacularly while producing few of its own.

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Any other business that failed so spectacularly for fifty years, it would be out of business".

There was even something similar to the exotic C.D.O.'s, or collateralized debt obligations, that failed so spectacularly.

Yes, this is the game that failed so spectacularly that tens of thousand of unsold copies had to be buried in the desert at Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Blockbuster was about a decade away from filing for bankruptcy protection (in the US) at the time; closer to its own famous demise was the company Blockbuster had entered into partnership with – Enron, the too-big-to-fail firm that failed so spectacularly in 2001.

This episode - which involved a hapless mover's attempt to cart a house across the midwinter ice of Lake Superior to Madeline Island, a plan that failed rather spectacularly - has attained as much importance in the annals of Chequamegon Bay as the Indian legends and fur-trading lore.

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