"disastrous" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Others equated the operation to the government's disastrous raid on the compound near Waco, Tex., which had been ordered by Ms. Reno.
- All this in the six months or so since Jameson's disastrous raid, and Jordan's thoughts jumped back to that day that the news had come.
- The protection of the local kings, the O'Connors, was not strong enough for Clonmacnoise to withstand disastrous raids by the Norman English in the Middle Ages.
- The Black Watch had to be reformed after Verrières Ridge, having sustained more casualties than any Canadian infantry battalion since the disastrous raid on Dieppe.
- In September, the final two Tribals lost in the Battle of the Mediterranean were sunk; Sikh and Zulu during a disastrous raid on Tobruk.
- He had helped to set the system up himself in the wake of the disastrous raid on Stony Man, and he could not complain if it had worked efficiently.
- After the disastrous raid on Wilhelmshaven in 1939, the RAF was forced to abandon daylight attacks and move to night bombing.
- He was also widely criticized for deciding not to reinforce American troops in Somalia in the weeks before 18 American soldiers died in a disastrous raid.
- The house of Mathrafal was effectively established in the wake of Harold and Tostig Godwinson's disastrous raids in 1062 and 1063.
- On 19 August 1942, a disastrous seaborne raid was launched by Allied forces on the German-occupied French port of Dieppe.
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