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In the face of the disastrous military battle, they conceded that victory was no longer attainable, and agreed to a negotiated surrender.

When public incident happen, if we did not take effective measures to deal with it in time, the consequence could be disastrous.

While that would be a disastrous debut for a privately owned company, state-owned Comac has been able to chalk it up to experience.

You know, those hurtful and disastrous things that you may have been told by someone during the course of your life.

Informed sources, the American Southwest, Arizona has always been a drug smuggling and illegal immigration "disastrous. "

Mr. Goleman warns that this consensus-building approach can be disastrous in times of crisis, when urgent events demand quick decisions.

She was tricked into a disastrous marriage with a charming but quite unscrupulous young man.

Tiago Mendes was a disastrous flop last term and is of interest to both Monaco and Atletico Madrid, but they only want him on loan.

I was expecting to be good, but I was concerned because it had been a disastrous track for us in the past.

Gilardino is not feeling the pressure of a new arrival, having got himself back on his feet after a disastrous time at Milan .

[font=Tahoma]IT WAS supposed to be a "merger of equals" , but has turned out to be just another disastrous car-industry takeover.

That would probably have been tolerable if the decisions cooked up in those conference rooms weren't so disastrous.

What caused the gap with the United States to widen was a pair of disastrous periods for Latin America.

It is easy to see then, why getting bombed on a beach and then laying out on your towel to catch some rays can be disastrous.

Any attempt to squeeze everything Welles or the Fab Four achieved into a two-hour film would be disastrous.

Yet as I said, there's a push for a repeat of this disastrous performance.

mistakes were disastrous . " see that , " joe said , holding up a filmy corset - cover that he could have crumpled from view in one hand.

Most workers FOCUS on working for pay and benefits that reward them in the short term, but is often disastrous in the long.

The gods have indeed favoured Georgia this winter, bestowing a mild one when a harsh one might have been disastrous.

Fortunately, it did not affect the mission, but should any astronaut have to call a dog in space, the results would be disastrous.

Mr Golding's poll ratings are poor but not disastrous, with 32% approving of him in June, up from 25% a year earlier.

Freddie expects to seek up to another $35 billion in public funds when it announces results shortly that are expected to be disastrous.

The Dunlap case is one of the clearest examples of a failure in recruitment screening that had disastrous consequences for an employer.

Some of the flaws in the American financial system, which had never received due attention, eventually led to disastrous consequences.

PERSONAL greed is often the explanation given for the disastrous forays of the world's banks into America's subprime mortgages.

He would never let his staff say of him that it was his disastrous mistake that ruined the whole company .

It was the vane on the roof turning round and this change in the wind was the signal for a disastrous rain.

The union is beautiful and lasts only a day and the two are at it again in a foray of disastrous treason of self.

Finally, if such a painful outcome is to be avoided, the alternatives must be a disastrous inflationary default or a resurgence of growth.

of Hannibal's horse to turn what was already a defeat into a disastrous rout.

"That could, as it did in the 1930s, lead to a disastrous collapse in activity around the world, " he said in a speech.

An Arab uprising against us, which the Germans were definitely trying to foment, would have been disastrous.

What should have been an incredible week-end in one of the nicest cities in Spain turn out to be a disastrous experience.

A full-fledged trade war between the United States and China would be disastrous; thankfully, it's far from likely.

In time kreppa may become the word that conjures up the disastrous meltdown that is now taking place in the country's economy.

The formations are very unique and is usually be regarded as a disastrous event. Take "eye wall" and storm cloud as example.

A member of the nobility claims to have been affected by an enchantment spell when closing a particularly disastrous trade agreement.

Tends to "catastrophic" ; is prone to see problems as disastrous, unsolvable, etc. 073.

Though Bear Stearns hadn't yet seen disastrous outflows of money, Mr. Schwartz said he didn't know what the next day would bring.

He looked upset and told me that I always evaded the question and that I had no ambition, which was disastrous in the business world.

The party has long hailed this action as the beginning of the end of the disastrous Maoist agricultural system.

The character is able to weather extended crises or disastrous changes in fortune, and survive anything less than a concentrated attack.

The legacy of that disastrous decision, which contributed to a famine that left tens of millions dead, still weighs heavily on rural China.

He also made an elaborate criticism of shale gas--extracted using novel technologies that he said were environmentally disastrous.

Such a scenario would be disastrous for the economic recovery that our nations are hoping to achieve.

Much like the archetypal notion of God, identifying oneself as God or Messiah is a disastrous form of ego-inflation.

Imagine how disastrous it would be if the Republicans shut down government for any length of time.

Before she came to Lee, she had dropped out of a mainstream college, burned by one disastrous semester.

Trying to avoid something that is unavoidable will have disastrous effects on your ability to trade successfully.

The industry continued to reel from aftershocks of a disastrous year.

That was a transaction they negotiated and recommended to shareholders, and it has turned out to be disastrous.

But the impression that he misled the British public into a disastrous war will not go away.

But what these people fail to see is that international tourism may bring ab out a disastrous impact on our environment and local history.

The consequences could be disastrous unless action is stepped up to properly collect and recycle materials, the agency warned.

It would be disastrous for the economy if Americans concluded they were free to walk away from such commitments, he says.

Colonel, sir, I'm afraid that would be disastrous. Oh, you think so?

His inner circle waited until he was out of the room before agreeing that such a course would be disastrous.

The Biancocelesti have had a disastrous season, and currently languish in a desperately disappointing 12th position in Serie A.

This practice, however, was frequently disastrous because there was no quality knowledge of Blood types, and compatibility.

When a nodule developed on his vocal chords causing a "disastrous" concert in Ferrara, he decided to give up singing.

But the irony is that a truly disastrous Labour leader would be less of a problem for the party, as he or she could be removed.

The regime did not collapse after a disastrous war as Argentina's did, or face threats of prosecution abroad like Chile's Augusto Pinochet.

Without swift action from the European Central Bank, this will prove to be a contagion process with a disastrous end.

Needless to say, this appeals to many teenagers, but it is a totally disastrous attitude both spiritually and in terms of maturity.

Since reading about it as a boy, Amundsen had been fascinated by Englishman John Franklin's disastrous search for the Northwest Passage.

Just as James was beginning his ultimately disastrous attempt to conquer the stage, he wrote The Tragic Muse (1890).

Sometimes, people say things out of moments of fury. Most often than not, the outcome could be disastrous and detrimental.

Missing out on AIA is not disastrous for Prudential, whose Asian business is already big and growing fast.

Life is like a piece of net in a disastrous state, put all the passion to run out.

Children are not undergo fast physical development; lack of physical exercise may produce disastrous influence on theirs in a while life.

After the storm it was not reformed, but cobbled back together, and the fruits of that disastrous decision are now being seen.

FP: One of the big news items in North Korea this past year was the disastrous currency revaluation.

The idea of achieving security through increased military build-up is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.

Tempting though such a prospect might seem, a third term would be disastrous for Colombia.

But mostly it's fear of embarrassment. Over the last few years, there have been several disastrous accidents involving Chinese subs at sea.

M issing out on AIA is not disastrous for Prudential, whose Asian business is already big and growing fast.

It would be most disastrous if even a rumor of it were given out. out.

Love without self-control is disastrous just like the situation where water, fire or even oxygen gets out of control.

If they were not paid on the basis of their performance, the consequences for the company would probably be disastrous.

Unfortunately, the unexpected outbreak led to think of the disastrous earthquake in the century.

"The ensuing panic would be disastrous, " he said.

The decision to downgrade AIG (AIG) amid the financial crisis is a perfect example of a rating action having a real and disastrous impact.

unfortunately, it was begun as a silent film, and the attempt to add voices afterward proved disastrous.

He still looked to be in the running for a podium position until a disastrous second stop effectively ruined his chances.

But politically speaking, such a division would be disastrous.

It would be most disastrous if even a rumor of it were given out.

Much of the rest of his tale concerns Sean Fitzpatrick's disastrous mortgage bank, Anglo Irish.

Only a fool will persist in adhering to a rule or set of directives when its application is clearly counter-intuitive and even disastrous.

Since then, with lower yields and a disastrous fall in returns, that crisis has deepened, but it is still not imminent.

She pulled out of a comeback tour last month after a disastrous appearance at her first gig.

The interregnum of 1932-1933, the long stretch between the election and the actual transfer of power, was disastrous for the U.

It would be most disastrous if even a rumor of it were given.

AMERICA'S disastrous war in Iraq was salvaged by an unlikely collection of dissident generals, think-tank scholars and foreign experts.

She ran eBay well in its early years, then missed the trends known as "Web 2. 0" and made a financially disastrous acquisition.

In all, it was a disastrous defeat for the Persians, and possibly one of Alexander's finest victories.

For the American and western European economies to decline again, when unemployment levels are already so high, would be disastrous.

However, precisely because the consequences of prolonged stalemate would be so disastrous, there almost certainly will not be one.

Sometimes tremors are a sign of an earthquake far away, and sometimes they precede a stronger earthquake, which can be disastrous.

The president thanked these soldiers for their contributions and said that abandoning Iraq now would be disastrous.

Over the long run, many economists say the structural imbalances on both sides of the Chinese-American debt symbiosis could be disastrous.

Don't forget to say thank you after date even if it was disastrous.

Trying to time a bottom can be disastrous.

If this is not rapidly changed within the next five years, the results are likely to be disastrous.

He would make a shot at a Latin tag , but mangle it ; he would quote Shakespeare , with equally disastrous results .

new pledges of aid totalling more than $300 million to deal with the disastrous floods that have swamped large parts of the country.

The result of such an event would be nothing short of disastrous, wouldn't it?

It's also against our nature to be contrarian. Uncomfortable alone, we seek the safety of the crowd, sometimes with disastrous consequences.

The question never was really taken seriously, since Giuliani did enough damage to his campaign with the disastrous "Florida Plan. "

Any intrusion by an external element can be disastrous to the whole objective.

This would be a disastrous outcome for all concerned and for the global financial system.

The impacts of climate change on the people of the more vulnerable states is likely to be disastrous over the second half of this century.

Back in the Great Depression, Washington tightened its belt with disastrous results.

At other times, we have failed to meet our basic responsibility to protect the public interest, leading to disastrous consequences.

If we do not immediately rescue, once crashed, past pedestrians injured, the consequences would be disastrous .

Missing out on BIB is not disastrous for Prudential, whose Bsian business is already big and growing fast.

A year ago the business was in a disastrous state.

So with a deft little two-step, Krugman paints himself as a doctor who gave an excellent diagnostic, and not a disastrous prescription.

The result was a round of reciprocal tariff hikes elsewhere, and a disastrous collapse in international trade.

Just over a year ago the EU's own Court of Auditors drew attention to some of the reasons the policy is so disastrous.

In the meeting itself he was reportedly crosser, denouncing "a screw-up that could have been disastrous" .

It looked as if the talks were dead, and on disastrous terms.

A snowstorm like this is bad enough to make people parochial and aggrieved, but not disastrous enough to make them generous and heroic.

Sometimes, a little fatal breakdown of the system, or a disastrous error could bring us an enormous amount of damage and loss.

This last pitfall is potentially disastrous if the marketer has built a comprehensive campaign strategy around the film.

Rather than offering a path to a better future, their plan is an echo of a disastrous decade the country cannot afford to relive.

Handsome and hard-partying, Jay was a hero of the disastrous fire, which five years earlier had destroyed Charleston's police headquarters.

Some financial institutions are still so large and interconnected that their failure would be disastrous for the global economy.

It would be disastrous if they sought to do so by pandering to the more populist elements of their constituency.

What is harmful or disastrous to an individual must be equally harmful or disastrous to the collection of individuals that make up a nation.

Badly framed balanced-budget rules, making the federal government as helpless as the states, would be disastrous.

An excess or deficiency of any compound may be equally disastrous.

In your resume, you need just a little bluffing. But overdoing it will be disastrous.

In this environment, the merest hint of a partisan decision could have been disastrous.

and Declan Walsh's fine account of the disastrous impact of the Afghan war on Pakistan's tribal areas.

Even New York's previous reforming mayor, Rudy Giuliani, failed to improve the city's disastrous schools, despite several attempts.

This helps slow the rate of global warming but increases ocean acidity, posing a potentially disastrous threat to marine ecosystems.

A US-only adjustment could lead to a disastrous overshoot in the euro's exchange rate, especially if half the world were to follow the US.

The disastrous impact global warming is having on our planet is now clearly visible in widespread flooding, heat waves and natural disaster.

Premature intervention could prove to be disastrous, getting in the way of vital efforts by financial institutions to deleverage.

Mr Levin's apology for the disastrous merger of Time Warner and America Online 10 years ago was the least equivocal.

It was reported that the behavior of Chinese students in Spain made a disastrous impact on the telecommunications industry.

HSBC has lost $42. 2 billion to date, most of it thanks to its disastrous foray into America's subprime-mortgage market.

The book, written by a team of scientists, predicted disastrous shortages and mass starvation due to population pressure.

However, the impact of rapid inflation on the American economy, and America's reputation for fiscal responsibility, could be disastrous.

The process we've articulated exists to counter such disastrous practices--to enable you to anticipate and move beyond a failing Plan A.

They have had Nuclear weapons tested on them, in their region, with birth defects being disastrous.

Banks avoided rules requiring them to put aside capital, by warehousing vast sums off-balance sheet with disastrous results.

And, second, did ideological blinders prevent the IMF from acknowledging that deregulation could contribute to a disastrous outcome?

The third error in judgment that some men make on a first date is just as disastrous as the mistake mentioned above.

you need to be able to modify certain principles based on a case-by-case basis, otherwise you get disastrous results!

Disastrous was the way one trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange described the drop in US shares on Thursday.

Roger Altman, a former deputy Treasury secretary, is arguing that America and Europe are on the verge of a disastrous double-dip recession.

All bubbles eventually have the air let out of them, sometimes with disastrous results.

During a period that should have been their happiest, Aylmer could only think of this disastrous subject.

This is a huge hypothetical - but let's play out the disastrous chain of events that would happen if China began to divest.

Disastrous consequences will follow, e. g. rises in the sea level and an ice-age as depicted in the sci-fi movie The Day after Tomorrow.

After a disastrous day of testimony, Jackson emerged with a wry smile on his thin painted lips and claimed: "It's going well. "

The removal of the apartheid-era old guard was understandable, but it has had disastrous consequences.

Financial system is in a situation of unprecedented crisis, CIT is a disastrous decline of the situation.

After six decades of disastrous rule by Kim and his father, their country is in ruins, utterly dependent on foreign assistance.

If everything needed political action and intervention, it would be disastrous.

What some people fail to see is that international tourism may bring about a disastrous impact on our environment and local history.

Particularly, in recent years, the news ethics by media in disastrous event reports have been attached importance in society.

They would send a disastrous signal to the rest of the world: the champion of open markets is going it alone.

This system of marriage and concubinage made women experience a disastrous decline in terms of their social position.

It is an important step towards laying to rest the disastrous experiment of collectivisation which, at worst, led to mass starvation.

If accident of blowout out of control occurs caused by equipment fault, it may cause disastrous consequences and Incalculable loss.

Even more disastrous was the alteration in the relative strength of the French and German Armies.

They protect us from a more disastrous emotional state - namely, the feeling that no one is concerned about us, that no one cares.

One obvious opportunity, following the disastrous collapse of the credit bubble, is in distressed credit.

With a potentially disastrous Olympics coming up, will there be any stomach for closer economic integration with China?

An unloving parent can create any of these responses, and so can a disastrous family event like a death.

Subway platform and sub-train are densely populated venues, and casualty would be disastrous if fire happens in these places.

Disastrous avalanches occur when massive slabs of snow break loose from a mountainside and shatter like broken glass as they race downhill.

Sometimes revealing private matters in an indiscreet manner can result in disastrous consequences.

The ship met with a disastrous typhoon in the South China Sea.

My own attempts to win men over with my cooking have been disastrous.

Treating depression becomes critical as a person ages. The effects of late onset depression can be disastrous in older people.

As it was, disastrous planning by Israel's soldiers led to a needless loss of life.

This institutionalized collectivism ushered in disastrous consequences, as expressed by the catch phrase "Hell is other people. "

At the end of the loss on the United States, is not disastrous.

In Lebanon, Hezbollah took the country into a disastrous and unpopular war.

Then, the system needs to find alternatives unblemished by the disastrous decisions of the past-and technocrats fit the bill.

But New York must contend with the series of disastrous results that have befallen the big Wall Street firms this year.

His remarks came as France and Germany edged towards closer fiscal union to avoid a potentially disastrous collapse of the single currency.

It would have looked like a military coup and would have set a disastrous precedent.

An increase in such actions could hit particular companies but is unlikely to be economically disastrous.

This has come to have frustrating and perhaps disastrous results once the talented young center injured his knee in February.

But what these people fail to see is that international tourism may bring about disastrous impacts on the environment and the local culture.

Lots of those schools must be outstanding, and none disastrous failures, she adds.

The consensus building approach can be disastrous in times of crisis, however, when urgent events demand quick decisions.

Once hostilities began, Revere once again joined the artillery, serving without note until the disastrous expedition to Castine, Maine.

But perhaps trumping all of these examples is the potential disastrous health effects of global warming.

One, we were facing head on global economic uncertainty, with the Asian Financial Crisis having a disastrous effect on many Asian countries.

The Frozen Deep was based on the disastrous Franklin Expedition, which furnishes Wanting with a secondary plot (it has three in all).

Why would China's rulers embark on a such a disastrous course?

This would have been disastrous; so, in another radical departure, the US extended deposit insurance to the funds.

"A few months without jobs would be disastrous for us, " Tang Hui frets.

From KP to Sindh, there was a weak humanity photographed facing a disastrous wrath.

Clinton sees parallels with his own disastrous first midterm election, in 1994, when Democrats lost control of the House and Senate.

The despair is histrionic and purposefully distorted; the stasis proved disastrous during the Bush Administration.

Waterloo has since come to mean a disastrous defeat of any nature.

Integral cultural background need to be considered in all post disastrous psychological aid.

Unless things change radically, these problems seem destined to sap nominal growth for years to come, with possibly disastrous consequences.

But if the economic straitjacket stays tight, says a senior European diplomat, "in the long term I think the situation will be disastrous. "

Other local companies have tried to do musicals themselves, but usually with disastrous results.

Of course, there is no getting around the disastrous Golden West Financial acquisition of 2006.

Most fantasies lead us astray, and most of the consequences of imagination for individuals and individual organisations are disastrous.

Joel was almost unplayable in this series. Bibby was a disastrous signing.

Children are undergoing fast physical development; lack of physical exercise may have disastrous influences on their later life.

The emergent disastrous events are of emergency, unpredictability, and disaster, so it is focus of the public's attention.

Such unexpected situation leading to disastrous loss is not irrelevant to the organizers' absence of risk awareness.

Thatis not disastrous, but does not suggest that e-government is an easy way for the state to balance its books.

Unit tests give developers confidence in their work; unfortunately, bad unit testing also gives confidence, often with disastrous results.

House prices are falling in nearly every region in Britain, amid fears that next year could be disastrous for the property market.

Although the car industry has undergone much consolidation in the past decade, most of it has been disastrous.

But some of his attempts to widen the gene pool have proved disastrous.

A credit drought now would be all the more disastrous for Germany's small and medium-sized companies.

"Today is a disastrous day. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, " reads one fortune showing up around the country.

All the waste products from the intensive fish and shrimp farming must have disastrous impact in the aquatic plants and animals.

We need to take time at the end of a disastrous project to review where things went wrong and learn from it.

Their intentions are often innocent, but the results can be disastrous .

This song is for the victims of the disastrous tsunami. This song was originally recorded by David Bowie and Freddie Mercury .

For communities who have traditionally been pastoralist, living off herds that graze the land, the drought has been disastrous.

This would be a disastrous scenario far beyond imagination.

But suspensions for less serious, nonthreatening behavior have become routine in recent decades, with disastrous consequences.

But the sure thing is, If American removes its forces while Iraq remains its present condition, disastrous consequences is likely to happen.

Because the earthquake's unpredictability and its potentially disastrous effect, earthquake insurances should be different from the others.

Undervaluing knowledge of the complexity of tribal and social networks proved disastrous when the United States first entered Iraq.

Children are undergoing fast physical development , lack of physical exercise may produce disastrous influence on their later life.

'Disastrous, ' Pan Shiyi, chairman of Beijing developer Soho China Ltd. , scoffed on his microblog account.

Leaders of the other parties agree that further delay would be disastrous.

In 2005, while overseeing Harriet Miers's disastrous nomination to the Supreme Court, he told CNN that justices had become too intellectual.

Mr Tsang bore responsibility for the party's disastrous performance in last month's district council elections.

Any crash would be politically disastrous for both airlines and policymakers.

But while Mr Cameron is enjoying his newfound bulldog role at Westminster, his stand in Europe makes for disastrous politics.

Three main explanations for this disastrous outbreak suggest themselves. It could be chance.

Prompt recognition and treatment of cardiac tamponade are imperative if a disastrous outcome is to be prevented.

It was much resented by many members of the island's Sinhalese majority, and had disastrous consequences.

This would be disastrous in an already shaky Chinese economy, Ms. Hu wrote in the Chinese magazine Century Weekly.

So is that disastrous event that might kick off a capitulation likely to happen or will governments act quickly enough to head it off?

President Bush's tour of America to survey the damage caused by his disastrous presidency.

This often has disastrous consequences if the dominated partner tries to break free.

Disastrous problems with government finances also played a huge role in provoking the reforms that eventually did for the Soviet Union.

Failing to reduce emissions could be disastrous, as warmer temperatures unleash floods and pestilence.

Producers are typically small, inefficient and environmentally disastrous.

The author of the report, Harvard Professor Matthew Bunn, says the potential for a disastrous attack is very real.

But then the Soviet Union found itself following the same disastrous road in Afghanistan as the US in Vietnam, and it was doomed to fail.

The analysis identifies the hazards at the critical points in the process where human error could have disastrous effects.

It is an offer humanity cannot deny and an offer with disastrous consequences for many planets of mankind . . .