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Example sentences for: debacle

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Could it be that this story, together with the fen-phen debacle, will focus national attention on promiscuous prescribing?
They strike heroic, Napoleonic poses, hand to heart, which made these wafflers and compromisers look ridiculous after the debacle of the Civil War.
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 if it turns out that Chirac's political debacle is the beginning of a much larger disaster--the collapse of the whole vision of European glory that has obsessed France for so long--we can be sure of one thing: The French will blame it all on someone else.
That debacle should have taught the world that media can coexist, and that artists can even migrate between them depending on the flavor they seek.