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Once again, the meeting was a disaster, as El País describes

Because otherwise it can get quite claustrophobic.

These violations and pressures are having a disastrous impact on independent media in Yemen and the coverage of the war.

All remaining hospitals have been bombed by Assad Putin airstrikes shelling.The situation is catastrophic! StandWithAleppo Zaher Sahloul ( sahloul) 18 November 2016

Defining victory as merely survival is a pattern often typical of Arab (and Iranian) politics and it is simultaneously disastrous and sensible.

In his view, Vanessa remaining alone in Australia is hard to imagine and would be emotionally and psychologically catastrophic .

The first was about 425,000 years ago, when an ice dammed lake in the southern North Sea overflowed and broke the Weald Artois chalk range in a catastrophic erosion and flood event.

Callaghan was told there were three possible outcomes a disastrous free fall in sterling, an internationally unacceptable siege economy, or a deal with key allies to prop up the pound while painful economic reforms were put in place.

LONDON Russia presents two opposing faces to the world one menacing, the other benign. Both have now combined, somewhat unexpectedly, to break the momentum carrying the United States, and possibly other Western powers, toward a disastrous military intervention in Syria.

As Ron Suskind reports in his recent biography of Bush's first Treasury Secretary, Paul O'Neill, former Bush Budget Director Mitch Daniels once whispered to himself at the end of a disastrous meeting, Not a typical Republican package. Definitely not.

It is disastrous because it courts defeat by attacking superior forces the 1967 Six Day War, Saddam Hussein s challenge to the United States and his attack on Iran, Yasir Arafat s fighting an endless battle in which he was always defeated, and so on.