"disastrous" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Gov. Nelson Rockefeller spawned a disastrous national trend in the 1970's with drug laws that required mandatory minimum sentences, including 15 years to life for the most serious drug felony.
- Anne's death signified the beginning of one of two disastrous trends in Lancastrian history.
- In their previous series against Houston, they averaged 108 points at home and 87 on the road, and that disastrous trend continued.
- Pius VII, no hero and no great intellect, halted and reversed the disastrous trend.
- He concentrated on the odd facts in the other pages of the papers, facts which, taken singly, meant nothing, but taken together showed a disastrous trend.
- New York started a disastrous national trend when it passed the draconian Rockefeller drug laws 32 years ago.
- This climate shift has coincided with another equally disastrous trend: the increasing isolation of a section of the population which is also increasingly dependent because it is elderly.
- One good solution to this disastrous trend is legislation imposing a high percentage of recycling of individual materials.
- We must ensure that this does not turn into a disastrous trend for certain regions.
- But I often think, too, that it makes those of us who agree with Colbert and Stewart et al. complacent, as though laughing at the disastrous trends we see is enough.
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