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He had a disastrous opening performance on Monday in the wrestling, being thrown by Romeo, who took an early lead in the competition.
In paying homage to his political spoilsman and teacher, he had only narrowly been spared a potentially disastrous appointment.
It's disastrous that we're clearing over very large attitudinal ranges, in places like the Western Tiers.
In neither case are the flawed endings disastrous, but, for discerning viewers, the end-game melodramatics may leave a slightly bitter taste.
American policy was thus based on a disastrous miscalculation, which came home to roost at Pearl Harbor.
Even a conventional, non-nuclear war could have disastrous consequences for the United States.
Worst of all is the disastrous family his daughter is about to marry into, a graceless mob of halfwits headed by a foul-mouthed virago.
Reverting to a full troop withdrawal stance would be both pointless and disastrous in policy terms.
In species where reproduction takes place sexually, the mistakes may be disastrous, even lethal.
For the same disastrous policies are being inflicted on people here in Britain.
And who was responsible for the sales re-organisation with the disastrous effects on Europe?
And I know to cast out the transatlantic alliance would be disastrous for Britain.
It's been an almost biblically disastrous year for those in the tourism industry.
The eagle drops the box over the sea, and Gulliver miraculously survives this disastrous fall.
Yes, it's true the football team is coming off what is, to put it as nicely as possible, a disastrous season.
I cringe every time I remember the disastrous valentine I sent him back in second grade, when I had a major crush on him.
The island looked disastrous, with billows of smoke rising to the skies, the houses on fire.
In 1592 and 1597 the Japanese shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi embarked on disastrous invasions of Korea.
On shore leave in Manila, he meets up with Yuddy on the eve of a disastrous lapse in judgment.
It was so disastrous that everyone thought the New Year's Eve crash was happening all over again.
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Taking his father's advice, Titus makes some adjustments to the fuel mixture ratio with explosive and disastrous results!
During the late monsoon season, tropical cyclones sweep in from the Bay of Bengal, often with disastrous consequences.
The briefings provided almost daily by senior military officers in Canberra were disastrous.
And then humans return, and the two cultures clash with potentially disastrous consequences.
I always think that disastrous situations bring about the positive of great opportunities then being available to turn things around.
He has farmed out songwriting duties to the group's lesser lights, with disastrous results.
It is lamentable that the defendant has to pay such a disastrous price to be an upright person.
The film posits that uncritically trusting in any system whatsoever inevitably leads to disastrous consequences.
Our hope is to show how this disastrous underachievement might begin to be rectified.
They also worry that genetically altered plants could escape into wild strains or breed new diseases with disastrous environmental effects.
More of a concern is that, with the traction control on, the car suffers from disastrous understeer.
In many cases it was financial necessity that forced great pugilists back, with disastrous consequences.
Measles, mumps and rubella are unpleasant diseases and an epidemic in this country would be disastrous.
Let's hope they do get to make another film since its box-office results were disastrous.
Now this statement today is only possible because we've fixed up that disastrous budget situation we inherited.
After the disastrous Battle of Long Island on 27 August 1776, British forces seized unresisting New York and held it throughout the war.
If that was what Blair thought, then this was, of course, a disastrous miscalculation.
And as models of normative desire, desire that he can never satisfy, they are equally disastrous.
Nowadays in an even more competitive world, it would be economically disastrous for strikes to become commonplace.
All the administration can offer, however, is more of the same disastrous policy.
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The increase in numbers, while it distorts the demographic picture, has more disastrous effects.
The whole world is getting a massive overdose of female hormones and the result is absolutely disastrous to many species.
Yet traffic across the fishing grounds could be disruptive, and a spillage in the waters that circulate closer to the islands disastrous.
It was its aftermath that was most disastrous, largely under American dictation at Versailles.
In 1512, soon after a grand celebration in honour of the king's young son, who died a week later, there was a disastrous fire.
And I'm sure they'll be as strident and demagogic as ever in warning us of the disastrous consequences of failure.
It's important to make quick decisions when new opportunities come your way, procrastination or delay may be disastrous today.
After one disastrous season, many of the stations that programmed the show asked to be let out of their two-year guarantees.
The ramifications of a holistic approach to crop growing and food production in Brazil would be disastrous.
The story tells of peasant girl who falls in love with a nobleman, and the disastrous consequences of that love.
The principal amount of all other debt is negotiable under the conditions of a world crisis as disastrous as the present one.
The premier told the president that failure to co-operate with The Hague would have disastrous consequences for the country.
That, though, was just a prelude to the disastrous events that have befallen the new school.
Great care was taken as the board envisaged disastrous results if the earthworks collapsed and released a wall of water upon New Plymouth.
Due to the intensive rainfall and high temperatures, disastrous weather such as thunder storms and cyclones are likely to occur.
James was replaced by Robert Green of Norwich City at half-time, and it could have proved a disastrous debut for the young custodian.
Save for one disastrous half against England, they have been ruggedly and cussedly competitive against all-comers.
A fall might entail disastrous consequences, and, therefore, the ascent should be attempted only by experienced cragsmen.
He had already found, to his cost, that jumping in feet first was a disastrous idea.
In the end the flippant attitude to the lack of car parking will have disastrous consequences for businesses in Skipton.
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Why is the U.S. blindly plunging ahead with such a potentially disastrous and outmoded concept?
Open plan living can have a profound and potentially disastrous effect on interpersonal relationships.
If the research fails to produce expected results, the consequent frustration could be disastrous.
He was not insured for either loss, and they follow the disastrous John Street Market fire last year which wiped out Mr Raper's stall.
In 1665, a bitter dispute over mineral rights with the Portuguese governor of Luanda, led to a final, disastrous conclusion.
Andy is rumored to be seeking a five-year deal, which would be pretty disastrous for the team that inks him.
Sheet piling will replace sandbags this summer to protect the community from a repeat of the disastrous floods.
And borrowing abroad was infeasible, given the uncertain political situation and the disastrous legacy of inter-war loans.
Yesterday he told him their actions were inexplicable and inexcusable that night and could have had even more disastrous consequences.
This episode, set on Valentine's Day, brings the couples back together with comically disastrous results.
On that fateful night a disastrous landslide wrecked havoc on their scenic community.
We were a seemingly ill-matched couple with a potentially disastrous future.
His disastrous management of the 1993 federal election showed that he was hopelessly out of his depth and totally ill equipped for the task.
Still, if her attempts to marry wealth are perfunctory, her efforts to increase hers are disastrous.
It is immoral and absurd to shackle all citizens because of the feared imprudence or disastrous luck of a tiny percentage.
Crossing a pug with a Pekingese, for example, could produce disastrous consequences.
Settling near a hungry snail could be disastrous for a peanut worm, and landing too far from kelp would doom a sea urchin to starvation.
There are many 19 th-century illustrations of the disastrous possibilities that could befall a whaling boat at close quarters with a whale.
A woman is being driven to self-mutilation by mental illness, brought on by a disastrous relationship.
No one in the world can consider themselves immune from its potentially disastrous effects.
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It's theologically unsupported and pastorally disastrous and it's tearing our diocese apart.
We all pay the price for our disastrous council, every single one of us who resides in this borough.
To think then is to cerebrate and to worry is to cerebrate intensely, and worry is overwork of the most disastrous kind.
The rainy seasons have been disastrous, to the point where there are serious shortages of drinking water.
The professor becomes passionately committed to a prostitute, with disastrous consequences.
Hence, this delay is disastrous only if the thieves get the stolen vehicle to a fast-moving chop shop or across a national border.
Atlanta completed a disastrous home stand by losing four out of five to the Lookouts and splitting a four-game series with Knoxville.
Godwin and Mill both wrote with Burkean extravagance about Hastings's disastrous effect on English national character.
Today that rallying cry of the 1970's Feminist Movement rings with ironic and sometimes disastrous double meaning in the American workplace.
As disastrous as the space shuttle destruction was, it resulted in reviving America's expendable launch vehicle industry.
The PM put these people in the job queue with his disastrous forestry policy.
This bridge swings and jounces at a disastrous height above the torrent below.
Macbeth lives as an exemplum of the perverted hero, because of Shakespeare's ability to give life to every stage of his disastrous career.
There is evidence that some will even get in hock with illegal money lenders, which can have truly disastrous consequences.
Her motives for this disastrous plea are never clearly explained, but evidently she wants to protect Arthur.
Well-controlled doses of the drug can work wonders, but overexposure can be disastrous.
Following his disastrous kayo losses to Cassius Clay, Sonny was written off by the experts.
Churchill spent most of the 1930s in the political wilderness opposing the disastrous appeasement of Hitler.
For instance, the Feds' epigones at State level try to follow it with often disastrous consequences.
Operationally brilliant, the attack was nonetheless strategically disastrous.
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Having wonky analytical arguments may be good for policy but politically it's disastrous.
The story follows a group of railway maintenance workers who are forced to cut corners with disastrous results.
In 1825-6 he experienced a disastrous year at the Teatro Carolino, Palermo, a position that paid him only 45 ducats a month.
A narrow focus on electioneering is at best ineffective, and at worst disastrous.
The first casualties of this disastrous policy have been Asian voters, particularly women.
After the disastrous tour of New Zealand, the media was castigating the team, we replied with a good World Cup campaign.
It seems to me that this approach to dissent has the potential to be pastorally disastrous.
Good headwork and crew coordination saved a situation that easily could have turned disastrous within a second or two.
Judging by the reviews, the film of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is as disastrous as expected.
No wonder we cannot find staff for such onerous tasks, the stress day in day out must be disastrous on their health.
Being a dutiful pupil, I followed the prescriptions only to embark on a disastrous degree in science.
After our ultimately disastrous first attempt at using our incubator this is just the ticket.
So and so's research indicates that even a small rise in temperature might be disastrous to the yellow-bellied sap-sucker of the upper Zambesi.
On that fateful night a disastrous landslide wreaked havoc on their scenic community.
The party has not recovered from its disastrous general election performance and is stuck on about 22 per cent public support.
Not even a disastrous foray into restaurants a few years back could dent the group's core business.
For winemakers in the Rhone, 2002 was a disastrous year, with violent storms and huge rainfall during the harvest.
At least, she says, she has learned lessons from her disastrous first relationship.
Indeed, the health consequences of the libertine life-style are, when compared with the consequences of smoking, truly disastrous.
It will take the losers considerable time to recover from this disastrous performance.
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Even if she did a disastrous DIY job, it would probably have looked cool and trendy.
Using the language of the Romantics or the Victorian poets, as so many Indo-English poets have done and still do, is disastrous.
In all, a disastrous start to a marketing concept clearly executed by greedy fools.
Despite the disastrous night prior, Devin still dwelt in a sublime state, mesmerised by tantalizing blue eyes and a rosebud mouth.
Last year's foot and mouth outbreak left Beningbrough Hall with a disastrous season.
Too often investors will let their emotions rule their investment decisions with disastrous results.
Any strategy based on a reduction of the role of the qualified teacher is potentially disastrous.
We've had a disastrous year in our local lobster fishery, with catches down by half and the catch of low quality.
The two men had cited example after example of astrologically arranged marriages, full of astral promise, turning disastrous.
Right now, the argument that the war will have unforeseen and disastrous consequences may sound like handwringing, but it is doubtless true.
So far those attempts have been at worst disastrous and at best meaningless.
It can be less risky to ignore suspicions than open a can of worms that might end in a disastrous confrontation.
If there is to be a winner, it could be the result of a calamitous error or disastrous lack of discipline.
I made a small speech thanking all and sundry for their efforts, before a disastrous attempt at telling a joke.
My parents' marriage was not ideal but not disastrous, and certainly did not make my childhood unhappy.
In the meantime, University College Cork said its music department had taken the convent's bell into safe keeping before the disastrous fire.
He has tried to retreat into national economic autarky, with disastrous results.
I reasoned that this would either be a devastatingly effective or disastrous opening gambit.
He damaged his back in that tie to cap a disastrous year which also saw him suffer foot and knee problems.
I didn't mention that I had dated a total of one guy, had a disastrous event with two others and was in a tangled web of confusion with a third.
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These will reflect and magnify any blast on to unprotected buildings over a wider area with potentially disastrous results for their occupants.
In 1687 and 1698, he launched two disastrous campaigns against the Crimean Tartars.
Going in with a pruning saw to undo a decade or more of overgrowth in one shot can be disastrous to an old tree.
Rising home values have propped up a stagnant economy and blunted criticisms of otherwise disastrous economic policies.
Economic statistics also show that the ban has not had the disastrous impact on pub sales feared by many scaremongers.
After the sheer tedium of a disastrous relationship with a well known record company, the guys have taken to playing gigs for free in local pubs.
After two disastrous relegation seasons York will be looking to bring the glory days back to Clifton Park.
Lee agreed that his disastrous start had given him little chance of victory.
Metal-penetrating oil can kill primers, and if it gets inside the powder charge, can again cause disastrous duds and even more disastrous squibs.
Unfortunately, Krausz never did get over her disastrous balance beam performance.
A disastrous stint with Watford would not put him off a return to England and he would consider moving abroad too.
Jones had earlier had a disastrous morning, as he conceded 13 byes before he got down low enough to take the winning catch.
As one senior MP yesterday vouchsafed, the failure to take on the Liberal Democrats in Brent East was a disastrous mistake.
He realizes that the misfortunes of life, like losing a job or a home, or disastrous illness, may bow him down but can never break him.
Buying them back from the master is disastrous, as it encourages the master to keep more slaves.
He succeeded in mating a cow with the menagerie's bison, but the ensuing pregnancy came to a disastrous end.
And straight ahead, it's been a disastrous hurricane season so far, and it's not over yet.
Borough came back from a disastrous start to get a point in a topsy-turvy encounter at Runcorn on Tuesday.
The barrages separated the river from the sea, and had a disastrous impact on fish that rely on annual migrations upriver to spawn.
Despite it all, he wrote a fictionalised account of his disastrous passion and was promptly mauled by critics and friends alike.
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Tillman's attempt to redefine sectionalism in Chicago, however, proved disastrous.
He sooked when dropped for the third Test of this year's disastrous tour of India for being one of four players who didn't do their homework on how Australia could improve.
In 1851 the government repealed this disastrous form of daylight robbery.
Swedish banks have similarly disastrous loans to the Baltic countries, amounting to 30 percent of its gross domestic product.
There is much to do and to undo after the disastrous administrations of Attorneys General Ashcroft and Gonzales.
If you had such an astronomically disastrous evening, the restaurant may want to make good, so give them the chance.
By contrast, George W. Bush launched two disastrous wars, and in so doing gave GOP bluster a bad name.
Investors both big and small have demanded the CEO also walk the plank over its subdued earnings performance and its disastrous investment forays into Asia.
The Port River has been the repository of industrial waste for over a hundred years and the accumulative effect on local flora and fauna has been disastrous.
And, after disastrous rehearsals, did an exceptional fruit jelly.
At any moment, the slightest loss in concentration could see a disastrous tumble.
He is keen to put his high-profile role in the disastrous Lions tour of Australia, behind him, although four months on certain matters still rankle.
That said, a few pilots are so disastrous from the get-go that the only real solution is to cut bait immediately.
Nasa officials had determined the exposed ceramic-fibre fillers could lead to overheating and a possible repeat of Columbia's disastrous re-entry.
The Ebola pandemic in West Africa is having a disastrous effect on tourism on the whole continent.
Another memorable, if not disastrous, misstep, of course, was his turn as Batman in Batman and Robin.
For the Choctaws in Oklahoma, allotment proved to be disastrous.
This would seem disastrous in the give-and-take of politics but it is in keeping with sectarian religious doctrine.
He could have allowed a decent interval to elapse after the disastrous air strike, and then ordered the supply route reopened.
Not only had circulation increased throughout the Deseret News's disastrous go-for-broke circulation campaign of 1947-52, but so had advertising linage and revenues.
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Our brains can foresee that if we let natural selection take its course then it could be disastrous in the long run.
She was unmarried still, and without boyfriend as far as he knew, remaining resolutely independent since a brief and disastrous live-in relationship in her early twenties.
The national media has, in recent weeks, begun to take notice of the Garden State's disastrous finances.
Their lurch to the Left was disastrous for them at the last election.
Should this happen it would be doubly disastrous were we to shirk the challenge now.
Later in the flight we were planning to perform practice autorotations and single-engine HODGE maneuvers, where the extra weight may have proven disastrous.
I'm about to defend Stuart Stevens, the spearhead of Mitt Romney's disastrous campaign, so please bear with me.
Former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer on the Republicans' disastrous presumptive nominee.
I'd heard about the balayage technique, but after a disastrous run-in with bleach as a teen I was afraid of highlights and thought I'd be better off boring brown.
Lots of people were skeptical about its disastrous 2012 IPO, and the company has thrived, both as a business and a stock.
The storyline turns disastrous, all against the barren, volcanic backdrop of Spanish island lanzarote.
One particularly disastrous game sent Gore from the gym to the hospital with a torn Achilles tendon.
No one was especially eager to deliver news of a disastrous military defeat or looming economic crisis.
Not wanting to shatter his family, Charles pays up at first, but when more and more money is demanded he decides to fight back, but with disastrous consequences.
Newspapers were risky as business enterprises, fledgling moneymakers, but, like most small businesses, it was the start-up costs that could prove to be disastrous.
He was so possessed by his own destiny he would never allow his armies even a tactical retreat, which turned out to be disastrous.
In 35 years she has survived a suicide attempt, racism, an abusive father, a stalker, two unfaithful husbands and a series of disastrous relationships.
It is not exactly disastrous but with bonus payments collapsing over the last three years in line with falling stock markets, so has demand for these products.
The millions of education dollars lost when we moved to the flat tax has proved disastrous, and Utahans clearly support doing whatever it takes to address education needs.
Even an attempt to destroy a chemical-weapons dump may be disastrous, if the poison gas is released into the atmosphere.
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If one were to have a voltage spike, the consequences could be disastrous.
The reason for this was that if it got into the public domain, it would be disastrous.
Hitting that moment, she said, was a punctuation mark on a disastrous year.
Their version of steak tartare turned out to be a disastrous agglomeration of purplish burger meat bristling, hedgehog-style, with inedible, overly dry toast points.
Any headlong rush in the pursuit of this chimera will be disastrous.
By Thursday, conditions were eased considerably, with no repeat of the disastrous conditions, despite the Met Service continuing to sound a note of caution.
Kay's next TV appearance will be a cameo role in Coronation Street, playing a cellarman called Eric who goes on a disastrous date with landlady Shelley.
They cooked and washed, men drank and played charangos, older kids whined about the rustic boredom, and Fabrizio, age five, made a first disastrous experiment with chicha.
While future non-lethal technologies may achieve the promises articulated by today's visionaries, the tendency to oversell current capabilities could prove disastrous.
Everything for me was part of a grand routine, and if that routine was ever broken, I was superstitious enough to think that the rest of my day would be disastrous.
The Athenians cut off Syracuse with two forts, and began a twin circumvallation, but left their northern walls incomplete, which proved disastrous.
But if instead of drinking the intoxicating liquor the victim takes it by hypodermic injection the Act does not apply, though the results may be equally disastrous.
Although Scotland's tenement flats are a well-loved part of urban culture, the upkeep of closes, roofs and other common areas can be a source of disastrous friction.
As foot and mouth sweeps the land and crops fail because of the disastrous growing season, farmers must be wondering where the next disaster will come from.
I remember replying that this was a quite hopeless analysis, absolutely disastrous to the left since it bound them to a state capitalist dictatorship.
The policy is philistine, expensive and environmentally disastrous.
Indigo was also a significant earner of Chinese silver, but its replacement by synthetic Prussian blue brought the indigo business to a disastrous end.
After four games it is clear that City could well be looking at a bottom four or six placing and the disastrous consequences that would have on the club.
Just last week he was a fish out of water who had made a disastrous career move that saw his legacy as one of England's greatest ever strikers in tatters at departures.
The results were disastrous, plunging the country into deep depression, with high unemployment, sharply falling living standards and serious political unrest.
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When we're talking about disastrous forest fires in the West, usually we're talking about low-lying, dry forests of ponderosa pine and Douglas fir.
The suggestion that it is arrogant to presume to make such decisions is false in at least some cases, including those where the disability is disastrous.
In a disastrous miscalculation, the producers carefully put back all the lame, dated gags and Manhattan provincialisms that dotted the original production.
If dilation is not performed carefully the results may be disastrous.
Our motivations may be pure, but the results are just as disastrous.
Any mistake by the locks could also prove environmentally disastrous.
But it proved as disastrous for Yugoslavia as it did for the Soviet Union.
Assaults by parts of five more Union divisions proved equally disastrous.
We've not spoken since my last disastrous attempt at explaining myself.
At twenty-five, she was offered the editorship of Tatler, a London society rag teeming with duchesses in disastrous yellow satin and dampeyed earls on horseback.
A Royal Navy survey ship has been sent to investigate the epicentre of the underwater earthquake which created the disastrous tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
Sold from just about every avenue one could imagine, the drink played into the prevalent violence and insecurity in a dramatic and disastrous way.
The harsh and even disastrous effects of this policy upon the trade of the United States and upon the neutral rights upon which it will not fail to insist are obvious.
This is exactly what happened when Denmark introduced its disastrous fat tax.
He believed that trying to bring warships out of the blockaded port at Brest would cause unnecessary delays, and could be disastrous.
The Common Fisheries Policy has been argued by certain commentators to have had disastrous consequences for the environment.
In 1854, Rae returned to the cities with information from the Inuit about the disastrous fate of the Franklin expedition.
In these locations, overfishing has not only proved disastrous to fish stocks but also to the fishing communities relying on the harvest.
In a fresh attempt to reclaim his family's lands in France, he invaded Poitou in 1242, leading to the disastrous Battle of Taillebourg.
It may be possible that the villa system did not survive the disastrous Pictish incursions of 367 and following years.
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The Italians suffered disastrous defeat at Caporetto, requiring British and French reinforcements to be sent.
The 2nd Battalion's flank companies took part in the disastrous Walcheren Campaign in the Low Countries.
On 17 August 1424 Buchan was killed at the disastrous Battle of Verneuil, along with most of the Scottish troops in France.
After a disastrous opening gig at the London Roundhouse, they reverted to a configuration presenting Bowie as a solo artist.
His final appearance in one of his own plays was as the Crimson Gollywog in the disastrous children's play Christmas v Mastermind.
The bitter division in public opinion provoked by the British intervention in the Middle East has already had one disastrous consequence.
There was also a disastrous famine in Bengal, which may have led to 3 million deaths through starvation, disease and exposure.
The disastrous convoy battles of October 1940 forced a change in British tactics.
By the end of August, after disastrous losses, the aircraft was withdrawn from daylight service.
Riding a bike into fesh-fesh is a very trying, if not disastrous, experience.
The proposal has aroused opposition from Cricket Wales and Glamorgan County Cricket Club, who argue such a move would be financially disastrous.
It's even harder when the school's biggest goofball nominates Presley for president and her campaign speech turns disastrous.
Lobbing it in a washing machine would be disastrous, like squeezing a pebbledash wall into a Zanussi, along with your smalls.
She was advised to have him desexed and that she had done with disastrous results because he became fat and ugly which made her feel guilty.
A repeat of the most infamous case of gyppy tummy in football history could prove equally disastrous.
Most of the damage was done on a disastrous opening nine where three consecutive double bogeys saw him go out in 43 at Muirfield Village.
Consider the heartache that could be avoided by thinking twice about the potentially disastrous effects of cyberflirting.
Throughout Chinese history, Daoists and geomancers record that tampering with the truth of nature is inevitably disastrous.
Many Tory MPs want Mr Osborne moved due to a disastrous Budget, repeated U-turns and a poll putting his approval at minus 32 points.
It takes place in an airport under some kind of unstated disastrous conditions.
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I believe that the various attempts to spell this out are subject to disastrous counterexamples.
I could care less that every time she takes yet another disastrous turn in life, she does it with four children in tow.
His life is almost co-extensive with one of the most disastrous periods in Roman history.
In 1996 Great Britain embarked on a disastrous tour of the Southern Hemisphere under coach Phil Larder.
This is a season that could veer from historically brilliant, to histrionically disastrous.
The tunnellers fear the water being pumped underground might collapse the passageways, with possible disastrous consequences.
In this case, something as simple as identifying the correct navaids would have precluded a situation which could have easily been disastrous.
A pair of cash-strapped students agree to take part in a drug trial with disastrous results in this straight-to-DVD horror cheapie.
This could have had a disastrous impact on the Cerambycid beetle populations that depend on recently dead trees for their reproduction.
Mr Blair has achieved much in power though he was catastrophically wrong on Iraq, with disastrous consequences.
Which man, whose name is now an eponym, led the disastrous charge of the Light Brigade?
Blomqvist concluded that 2000 BC might provide the terminus post quem for the tradition of Phaethon's disastrous ride.
The doctors and nurses, often short-staffed, do a great job despite the Welsh Government's disastrous handling of our health service.
Metapolitics traced the disastrous role of perverted imagination and correspondingly perverse politics in Germany.
In 1996, the remnants of The Stone Roses played their disastrous final gig at the festival.
Accordingly, the next section highlights the role of built environment professionals in responding to disastrous situations.
That could be disastrous in a combat situation where the beeping could alert the enemy.
All it takes is one rogue algo to go into an infinite loop and the results could be disastrous.
Miliband's push leftward, away from the centre ground favoured by his brother David, the former foreign secretary, proved disastrous.
But the consequences of a filing would have been disastrous.
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He knew that a public appearance with Duke could be disastrous.
Any of these scenarios could prove disastrous for the leaser, and potentially damage client relationships, a case study noted.
Unfortunately, reimporting drugs at lower prices could produce disastrous results for our health care system in the long run.
His lack of discernment led to his disastrous choice of business partners.
He has already tried and failed to lure Derek McInnes away from Rangers, as he attempts to arrest Aberdeen's disastrous form flump.
During the church's reconstruction after the disastrous fire of the 1170s, his remains were relocated, although it is now uncertain where.
Paterson personally accompanied the disastrous Scottish expedition to Panama in 1698, where his wife and child died and he became seriously ill.
Despite showing his usual coolness at Stadion Wisly, Ramos admitted defeat in Krakow would be disastrous.
It's apparent that voting for party political windbags has been disastrous.
With that the system was complete, and ready to have its disastrous effect on Martin Luther's volcanic temper.
But sporadic Viking incursions continued until the Norman Conquest, including the disastrous defeat of the Devonians at the Battle of Pinhoe.
Henry's support of a disastrous papal invasion of Sicily was the last straw.
A few locals joined him, including Sir Thomas Broughton of Broughton Tower, who would be killed at the disastrous Battle of Stoke Field.
The report warns that the loss of life combined with widespread deforestation is potentially disastrous for the tourist industry.
However, he was also one of the political and military engineers of the disastrous Gallipoli landings in the Dardanelles.
During the war, he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign caused his departure from government.
This contrasted with the disastrous Walcheren expedition, which was typical of the mismanaged British operations of the time.
In England, for example, King Charles II paid little attention to diplomacy, which proved disastrous.
Fage asserts that slavery did not have a wholly disastrous effect on the societies of Africa.
In October, with no sign of clear victory in sight, Napoleon began the disastrous Great Retreat from Moscow.

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