I would have been a disastrous soldier.
Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.
Why is Netanyahu pushing war? Among several reasons, demonizing Iran reduces pressure on Israel to negotiate seriously with the Palestinians. Many Israelis prefer building Jewish settlements on Palestinians' land instead. Moreover, Israel's rulers oppose any development-such as an Iranian-U. S. detente-that could diminish Israel's U. S. -financed hegemony in the region. War with Iran would be a catastrophe all around. Netanyahu and his hawkish American allies-the same people who gave us the disastrous Iraq war and ISIS-must be repudiated.
The feelings of being in the audience and being on the podium are very far apart. When you're onstage and something goes wrong, you can do something about it. In the audience, you just have to sit there, and if it's a disastrous performance, I'm the one that gets blamed.
Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.
I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.
Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.
I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.
I think Hollywood has gone in a disastrous path. It's terrible. The years of cinema that were great were the '30s, '40s, not so much the '50s. . . but then the foreign films took over and it was a great age of cinema as American directors were influenced by them and that fueled the '50s and '60s and '70s.
Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it
It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room, as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress.
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.
We’re grateful when all is well, but can we say the same on disastrous days?
Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that.
People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher intellectual culture. Where industry is everything and man is nothing begins the realm of a ruthless economic despotism whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism.
The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.
I would say whisky or pills. Not both because that can have disastrous consequences.
Then my father's features hardened. "You can't expect my blessings on this disastrous mistake. " The words were directed at me, but Vlad responded. "I wouldn't insult you by asking. We both know you disapprove and we both know I don't care. Leila's opinion is the only one that matters, and she said yes.
I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.
The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.
