Examples of fiasco

• The only military expedition, in 1624, ended in a fiasco.

• The real cause for the ' fiasco ' was the ' intrinsic deficiencies ' of the movement.

• Unfortunately, though, the causes of a success or fiasco are rarely analysed in much detail.

• Labour identifiers were not significantly more or less likely than other voters to participate, despite any general disillusion occasioned by the party leadership fiasco.

• However, the expedition proved to be a complete fiasco.

• The communist uprising of 1923 was a fiasco.

• Indigenista experiments were generally a fiasco, and the pluralist moment short-lived.

• In the early to mid 1990s when it became apparent that this initial stimulus to the private market had been a costly fiasco, there was a considerable consumer backlash.