Sentences with phrase «political catastrophe»

And for this person, it was avoiding political catastrophe for the new cycle.

Some have claimed that the Romantic legacy led inexorably to Germany's twentieth - century political catastrophes.

Both moved fast when they realised that a political catastrophe was looming, but were relaxed when the mountainous White Paper appeared from nowhere.

In a pre-Sundance acquisition, Sundance Selects has acquired North American distribution rights to «Weiner,» which takes a look inside the political catastrophe of Anthony Weiner's 2011 mayoral campaign.

Well, that was 2016 — a weird, troubling 12 months by anyone's standards, characterized by war, political catastrophe and so many extraordinary people in the cultural arena shuffling off this mortal coil that it sometimes felt like some sort of sick...

NCLB cleared Congress in 2002 with massive bipartisan support but has since become a political catastrophe: The law's strategy for prodding and shaming schools into improvement proved deeply flawed over time, and its unintended failures have eclipsed its bright spots.

They led, transformed, and were assigned to clean up financial and political catastrophes.