Sentence examples for war debacle from inspiring English sources

Those running the RUC, the army, the Northern Ireland Office and the Joint Intelligence Committee – later to become a household name during the Iraq war debacle – regarded the loyalists as a vital but disreputable rabble.

It shows the potency of the EU referendum debate that an article from an intelligence chief who retired more than a decade ago – and whose reputation was damaged by the Iraq war debacle – can stir debate.

Yet Owen suggests the British people are probably more ready, after the Iraq war debacle, to accept "someone as prime minister who openly declares the nuclear decision as a matter of conscience".

Before this material became commercially available in the late 1970s, hill-walking was like a bloodless version of a Great War debacle: shell-shocked survivors trudging in from the mist at the end of the day wrapped in dowdy tarpaulins and sodden wool.

Then Congress rolled over and allowed Bush to start the Iraq War debacle.

Though some Senate Democrats on the Senate floor did hotly debate Rice's role in the Iraq war debacle, ultimately most of them voted to confirm her.

Biden has also long been a champion of the federal COPS and Byrne grant programs that have contributed to the massive rise in SWAT teams across the country -- and have given rise to drug war debacles like those in Hearne and Tulia, Texas.

It tells the story of the company's growth and success, its unfortunate Star Wars debacle (4m copies sold but – through no fault of Christopher's – 17m copies printed), and its acquisition in 2000 by Pearson, the parent company of Penguin.

John McCain has been to South Ossetya, which is probably why it's a war torn debacle right now.

Labor, exhausted by the marathon, by the perverse acceleration of time that had aged a still youthful government, fundamentally worn down by the rolling moral panics and the instant referendums of the social media age, was simply trying to move on past the debacles of the Rudd/Gillard civil war, including the debacle of an election campaign that began to make sense only in its closing week.

For French cinema, the war was a debacle.