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    disastrous


    1. Failure to perceive the spiritual principles of the leadership involved in the eldership has led to many destructive, devastating, and disastrous results in too many churches


    2. But still this was disastrous


    3. The catastrophes and failures of colonisation, the disastrous experiments with star drives, all those terrible bug hunts on far away worlds, we survived them all and gave the stars to you, and for what? Thanks? The only thing your masters ever worried about was whether there were enough conditioned and dedicated Barcs available to do the dirty work


    4. I stand watching him, this unexpected man who has such a disastrous effect on my pulse rate


    5. delay would have been disastrous) and stepped over the


    6. Without a tear, she continued on, describing every disastrous turn that took away her loved ones like a farmer’s scythe cuts corn


    7. As soon as Ralof raised an eyebrow the other blond Nord caught himself, realizing that what he knew could prove disastrous for the young woman if the knowledge traveled much further beyond him and his aging companion in bonds that night


    8. What a disastrous day this has turned out to be, he thought as he headed home


    9. It took some convincing and even a demonstration that was almost disastrous when one of the Elders, Clive Roberts, inadvertently took it to the next level


    10. “Yes we have been extremely lucky like the Major and Captain said a strong point in our rear with that amount of fire power would have been disastrous

    11. He'd call on Rosemary, pass an hour, have a coffee and try to sort out the disastrous misunderstanding from last night


    12. General Lee’s first push into Union territory and was disastrous for Lee


    13. If he had been able to pull off the three assassinations, it would have been even a more disastrous situation


    14. Perhaps, had he meditated a bit longer, he would not have allowed the Empire to end up in the hands of his son, Commodus, with the ensuing disastrous results


    15. After the disastrous evening in the bar, he had taken Seraphia aside and asked if they could leave early to spend some time together at home


    16. Verily, I don't understand politics and am glad I am a simple fellow for I would hate to try to explain this line of thinking which proved disastrous right from the beginning when President Roosevelt decided to trust Stalin and expecting nothing in return as a sign of good faith during the Second World War


    17. Such an onslaught would have proved disastrous to our advance


    18. Only Nixon and Kissinger, two men whose giant egos led them to be mesmerized by delusions about their diplomatic skill, fascinated by the juvenile game playing for foreign misadventures of the nineteenth century, would make such a disastrous mistake


    19. Once again I was being conned into doing something that was sure to prove disastrous


    20. What: The disastrous Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms raid on the Branch Davidian cult compound in Waco, Texas in 1993

    21. What is certain is that this was the most disastrous day in the agency's history


    22. That, of course, led to the disastrous failed Bay of Pigs invasion


    23. His failure to stop his Attorney General's disastrous raid on the Branch Davidians led to a wave of paranoia and recruitment by right extremists


    24. And though they would sneer at such terms, the moral callousness of neo conservatism has been equally disastrous, the wide cause of misery that itself was the central cause of neo conservatism's many failures


    25. He also twice avoided another likely disastrous war with Britain


    26. This is a further reason an earlier US-Mexico War would be disastrous, more drawn out, and cost more lives


    27. Had Hitler been forced to comply with the treaty of Versailles, we would not have suffered a disastrous Second World War


    28. What’s more, they conscientiously seem to ignore that the president inherited an impending recession, and completely forget the disastrous effects of that unforgettable September 11, as they also forget the more than 2 million jobs created since the month of August of last year


    29. Much like Carter, it is difficult to imagine Obama could win the presidency in any other election except after another president's disastrous failures


    30. In 2008, the US had been in two disastrous wars for over five years, with most of the public strongly opposed to them

    31. Churchill’s support of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign forced his resignation from the Admiralty


    32. Even with disastrous wars and a recession, Obama could have lost the election


    33. But if he had avoided every single mistake and narrowly won, what type of president would he have been? Quite clearly, a disastrous one viewed solely in terms of loss of human life and not political partisanship


    34. That means a war even greater and more disastrous than in Iraq


    35. Of course, the Nile Delta would have also suffered a disastrous, if not catastrophic flood, for at least one season, but very probably more


    36. The result has been disastrous to land owners and


    37. Powers both fickle, as well as fearsome displayed themselves, often with disastrous results for mere Man


    38. This eliminates the need of the disastrous practice of receipt of money with payment of interests to satisfy the mistaken economic fundamentals


    39. These were the scenes of his disastrous first marriage


    40. He didn’t think Theodore caught Chlalcoatl’s tone of voice, but it was a dangerous situation because our cousin trusted his brother and an innocent question from him could have disastrous consequences for others

    41. On the other hand, jealousy that dominates the emotions causes us to lose sight of right and wrong, and could produce disastrous results


    42. knew this could be disastrous for his town that was already struggling with a dropping


    43. The real cost of that would be both economically disastrous and politically impossible


    44. It is the mixing up the two that is so disastrous


    45. disastrous if Mike had been hit


    46. occupation with the disastrous condition of the world and the


    47. Why do provinces put up with this police force, it would be less disastrous


    48. would be less disastrous and more economically feasible to have their own


    49. The result has been disastrous to land owners and businesses but has not done much for the critters it was supposed to help preserve


    50. Revenge is anger in action and misplaced anger can have disastrous results









































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    Synonyms for "disastrous"

    black calamitous disastrous fatal fateful evil ill miserable terrible awful

    "disastrous" definitions

    (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin