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Example sentences for: debacle

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Participation in the Thirty Years’ War under Philip III led to further financial difficulties and to another debacle in 1643, when Spanish troops were defeated by the French at Rocroi in Flanders, never to regain their prestige.
Lewinsky's was not the biggest mistake made over the course of this debacle.
Retrospectively, says Lewis, the Aug. 17 Russian ruble debacle was but the precipitating event; an expanding web of media and finance market rumors, plus Wall Street sharks out to plunder Long-Term, ensured the firm's collapse.
But the fallout from the John Huang debacle should remind Asian-Americans that claims of racial loyalty can cut both ways.
Dudley Edwards said it was "preposterous" to blame the debacle on Trimble, who, defending himself in an op-ed article for the Times of London Friday, wrote that the Ulster Unionists have an undeserved reputation for saying "no."