The real value of the trust capital may be disastrously less than when the trust began. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health. From Dictionary.com.
Who got rid of Frank Field, Brown did (Thereby condemning benefits and housing to remain disastrously unreformed). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
TSMC's 40nm process maturity can simply be described as disastrously bad. From Wordnik.com. [Madshrimps News RSS Feed] Reference
Needless to say, a very simple crust recipe turned out disastrously, which is ridiculous. From Wordnik.com. [strawberry rhubarb pie | smitten kitchen] Reference
Boos from the Right, who point out that the figure falls "disastrously" short of the 50 per cent decrease in. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Target Super Store in Frisco, Texas offers natural and organic meats at affordable prices] Reference
"Something has gone disastrously wrong," says Haseltine. From Wordnik.com. [10 Big Thinkers for Big Business] Reference
It chronicles a production that goes disastrously wrong. From Wordnik.com. ['Inferno': A Catastrophic Film Finds Redemption] Reference
General Lallemand, and which terminated so disastrously. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The experiment ended disastrously after only three weeks. From Wordnik.com. [War And The Second Sex] Reference
Good for shareholders, but disastrously bad public policy. From Wordnik.com. [Fat Tax, Skinny Tax] Reference
I agree that Murdoch's digital ventures have been disastrously misguided. From Wordnik.com. [Would there be a viable newspaper industry without Rupert Murdoch?] Reference
Capital was being disastrously misdirected into housing and other hard assets. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Medicine Begets Bad Economy] Reference
Kerry's answer is that it was a worthwhile objective but was disastrously executed. From Wordnik.com. [WHY KERRY IS RIGHT ON IRAQ] Reference
Reagan put marines into Beirut on an ill-conceived mission that ended disastrously. From Wordnik.com. [Empathy For The Devil] Reference
The smallest deviation from the outlined schedule would have resulted disastrously. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
The fighting began, and, for the small body of British troops, continued disastrously. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
Crested German helmets made superb targets, and the officers bit the dust disastrously. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
It isn't just the economy, which-as the president has disastrously insisted-isn't quite awful. From Wordnik.com. [The Year Of Living Seriously] Reference
Higher defense spending and lower taxes, the argument went, would disastrously worsen inflation. From Wordnik.com. [The Blinders Of Politics] Reference
Reminding the public of all his disastrously-failed policies they'd hoped to pin on Barack Obama. From Wordnik.com. [Robert J. Elisberg: Please Bring Back George Bush] Reference
Should the Fed target the equity market, as it last did, disastrously, before the Great Depression?. From Wordnik.com. [Bubble Trouble?] Reference
Should he acknowledge himself finally defeated because his initial attempt had failed so disastrously?. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
"Whether somewhat wrong or disastrously wrong, we certainly weren't vindicated in Iraq," Muravchik says. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Neocons] Reference
To see things in this oddly foreshortened way can distort judgment and invite disastrously wrong actions. From Wordnik.com. [The One Man Enemy] Reference
It was a miserable Sunday scrape and ended like all the rest that had been started on a Sunday, disastrously. From Wordnik.com. [The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster] Reference
Charles H.P. Smith (Nathan Lane) is a president who's about to fail, disastrously, in his bid for a second term. From Wordnik.com. [How To Act Presidential] Reference
The tough, plain-spoken Maliki had replaced Ibrahim Jaafari, Iraq's disastrously wishy-washy interim prime minister. From Wordnik.com. [Iraq: With Friends Like These ...] Reference
At the '92 GOP convention in Houston, Buchanan happily (and disastrously) declared the existence of a "" religious war.' '. From Wordnik.com. [Now, The Volvo Republicans] Reference
The present tendency of players taking up Auction is to regard the leads as unimportant, and this often results disastrously. From Wordnik.com. [Auction of To-day] Reference
The subsidy was a legacy of the New Deal, created to help farmers survive in the face of disastrously low Depression-era prices. From Wordnik.com. [Housebroken] Reference
More disastrously for the Democrats, the "unseen" became "seen" almost immediately, in the form of metastasizing budget deficits. From Wordnik.com. [The Failure of the Liberal Economic Experiment?] Reference
A navy with an insufficient and disgruntled personnel cannot be efficient, and its morale must necessarily be disastrously affected. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
But if the troposphere becomes moister -- remember that water vapor is a greenhouse gas -- the warming could accelerate disastrously. From Wordnik.com. [Too Much Hot Air] Reference
In that case the coup will have backfired disastrously, against not only the generals but Venezuela's beleaguered middle class as well. From Wordnik.com. [Chaos In Caracas] Reference
In eight years in office he has disastrously protected the drug cartels and their profits by refusing to countenance drug legalisation. From Wordnik.com. [Our 'war on drugs' has been an abysmal failure. Just look at Mexico] Reference
Critics accused him of trying to destroy enterprise and prosperity, and charged that he had disastrously undermined national confidence. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of Two Fine Roosevelts] Reference
With the outbreak of World War II, Dahl trained as a pilot but crashed his plane, disastrously, en route to his first post in North Africa. From Wordnik.com. ['Storyteller,' Donald Sturrock's authorized biography of Roald Dahl] Reference
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