| After previous electoral debacles, the Conservatives bounced speedily back. |
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| I caution you however, to mention that the left cannot afford any more debacles that could have easily been prevented by fact checking. |
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| Two consecutive Election Day debacles have shaken public confidence in exit polls, once viewed as the crown jewel of political surveys. |
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| Occidentals indisputably have had starring roles in many of our world's great debacles. |
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| Question 6 Should we have a policy to protect whistleblowers to prevent possible future debacles? |
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| The full extent of those earlier debacles could be cloaked in secrecy. |
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| At the moment many voters are looking resentfully at Labour's record in office through the refractive lens of recent debacles. |
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| The association's stance is also undermined by a series of debacles on its watch this season. |
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| Nortel, Bre-X and a growing number of income trust debacles have only added to Canada's reputation for failing investors. |
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| These financial debacles all began life as positive examples of innovation. |
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| For want of a nail, the shoe was lost, triggering a chain of events that leads to much greater debacles. |
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| The wimp-baiting from the right has gotten us into the two worst foreign policy debacles of the last half century and we have to put a stop to it. |
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| These minor debacles are just symptoms of a larger ailment, one that has afflicted over a century's worth of politicians on every level and for which there is no end in sight. |
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| For one thing, it will force the government to produce a compelling, coherent, consistent, and persuasive account of their programs, their debacles, and their triumphs. |
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| If this man worked in the private sector and had presided over repeated financial debacles of a similar magnitude, he would have been invited to resign years ago. |
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| However the recent debacles of Enron, WorldCom, Marconi and Vivendi, among others, show that governance is a risk factor in developed, as well as in developing markets. |
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| The exciting question now is not, how companies can protect their brands from reputation debacles, but how they can build brands aligned with strong CSR performance and global citizenship? |
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| So what can organisations do to avoid similar debacles that lead to long established companies such as Universal Tube finding their sites suddenly unusable? |
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| Thirdly, the debacles in Asia and Russia have shown the need to reform the structural adjustment policies of the international financial institutions as called for by the 1995 UN Copenhagen Summit for Social Development. |
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| In the aftermath of the Enron, and Worldcom debacles, there is significant pressure to improve governance and effectiveness of controls surrounding financial disclosure and fraud prevention. |
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| In recent years, the tendency to misremember past debacles as humiliations has emerged as one of the salient features of the Kremlin's conduct of international affairs. |
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| One of the field's biggest debacles has been the introduction of mosquitofishes all over the world for mosquito control. |
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| A European repeat of these debacles appears completely pointless to me. |
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| The number of debacles over the last number of weeks from two parties, which I will not name, has driven a strong rift between Canadians, their parliamentarians and their trust of their representatives in the House. |
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| These are military and political debacles to rival the Boer War. |
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| We have had NAFTA-gate and the debacles of Burma. |
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| I speak not just of squandered fiscal prudence and income trust debacles, but the simple management of his own office and the disregard for his own government's guidelines. |
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| The series of past debacles must not deter us. |
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| In the face of certain debacles, such as the oil-for-food scandal and the failure to prevent the Rwandan genocide or come to any consensus over Iraq, critics overlook much of the work that goes on away from the spotlight. |
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