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• The event proved to be a great debacle for the partisans of this prognosticator.
• The result is a military approach which maximizes political tensions with Russia [...] and lays the ground for a military debacle.
• The Falklands-Malvinas débâcle provided the opportunity to restructure the military High Command; Alfonsín removed anti-democratic senior officers and replaced them with more co-operative ones.
• The BP Prudhoe Bay debacle [the Prudhoe Bay oil spill] thus provides but the latest in a long line of reasons why leasing this region of the NPR-A is a bad idea.
• [...] so that in extreme cases the latter may even be dammed up for a time, and a debacle be the consequence, when the main river overcomes the resistance opposed to it, [...]
• For several months after the debacle just described, the river Dranse, having no settled channel, shifted its position continually [...]
• When this débâcle commences [...], the masses of ice, drifting with the current and unable to pass, are hurled upon those already soldered together; thus an enormous barrier is formed [...]
• Tax debacle could cost you £100 each month (Independent, 6.9.2010)