fiaschi ); however, the fiasco is only used by a few makers of the wine now ; most Chianti is now bottled in more standard shaped wine bottles.

The worst aspect of this fiasco was that I was now not only jobless but homeless.

The fiasco of the 1599 campaign by Essex in Ireland added to the power vacuum in most parts of Ireland that only he could fill.

Such a drastic measure, however, would only provide more grist for what was becoming a public relations fiasco.

The mid-term convention was begun in 1974, after the fiasco of the 1972 Democratic National Convention, which saw the presidential nominee, George S. McGovern, accepting the nomination at 3: 00 a. m., and which was followed by an electoral disaster, in which the party's candidates received only the electoral votes of Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, and was intended to reorganize the party structure and get it back on track for future elections.

The incident was seen as a costly fiasco since only two Aborigines were captured ( three were killed ).

He was held responsible for commissioning Eldorado, a new soap opera that lasted only a year and was critically and popularly regarded as a costly fiasco and an embarrassment for the BBC.

Since the Ušće fiasco, the band played only a few more concerts on home soil such as 2008 large open-air gigs in Kruševac and Novi Sad that went well, serving as lead ins for the concert at Belgrade Arena in late November 2008 where more than 10, 000 gathered.

The rebellion was a fiasco ; launched on 23 December 1827, it only attracted a few hundred rebels and fell apart when Bravo was captured on 7 January 1828.

During the Borgslayer fiasco they left town to go live at their father's country estate, only to be mentioned once in season 2 ( but not before Nukus forced them to return to town to tell the Beetleborgs how to defeat Borgslayer in order to get rid of the Magnavores ).

The raid was intended to trigger an anti-government uprising by the primarily British expatriate miners, but was a fiasco with 65 of the raiders killed to only one Boer commando, and the rest surrendering.

The planned State Opening of Parliament proved a fiasco, as only four members of the House of Commons of Southern Ireland and a minority of members of the Senate of Southern Ireland turned up.

A trial by fire proposed by a rival Florentine preacher to test Savonarola ’ s divine mandate was a fiasco and popular opinion turned against him.

Understanding Hanbei cannot hire him after such a fiasco, Sanjuro insincerely commits to finding the attackers.

He gave Arnold the choice of resignation or a general court-martial, but when Arnold chose the latter, Patrick decided to avoid another public fiasco and instead transferred him to Ft. Riley, far from the aviation mainstream, taking command of the 16th Observation Squadron on March 22, 1926.

His policies regarding slaves as contraband, his administration of occupied New Orleans, his ineffectual leadership in the Bermuda Hundred Campaign, and the fiasco of Fort Fisher rank him as one of the most controversial political generals of the war.

fiasco, he convinces a mentally-ill Clayface to release him and promises to cure him.

The fiasco at Fort Fisher, specifically Butler's disobeyance of his direct orders — orders which Butler failed to communicate either to Porter or to Weitzel — gave Grant an excuse to relieve Butler, replacing him in command of the Army of the James by Major General Edward Ord.

* Copenhagen Post: " Denmark's Christian Poulsen started the fiasco in the match's final minutes when he punched Sweden's Markus Rosenberg in the stomach after Rosenberg apparently struck him in the face.

Back in his house, Feely writes in his journal that no-one believes him ; they claim he killed Tony with neglect and made up the whole ' Hand ' fiasco to cope.

Regardless of the Antietam fiasco and Gibbon's disdain for him, he had powerful political connections in the form of Indiana Governor Oliver Morton.

After the fiasco of the Ulster Trophy in June 1952, where both BRM V16-powered Type 15's failed to finish, Stirling Moss wrote to Raymond Mays telling him that he did not want to drive the car in the state that it was, given its lack of reliability.

Only Sally believes him, though she still has some suspicions after the Halloween fiasco.

This lull proved Jatin's full command of violence as an antidote, contrary to the Chauri Chaura fiasco after him.

The fight was a fiasco, with Morrison being knocked down twice in the first round and once in the second before the disgusted referee, who said " Henderson put up no fight ", walked out of the ring.

In light of the controversy surrounding the sludge and possible drill contamination, Gold abandoned the project at Gravberg-1, calling it a " complete fiasco ", and redesigned the experiment by replacing his oil-based drilling lubricant with a water-based one.

In May 1914 O ' Brien and his followers abstained from the final vote passing the Home Rule Act 1914, denouncing it as a " partition deal ", after Sir Edward Carson leader of the Ulster Unionist Party forced through an amendment mandating the partition of Ireland, the Nationalist's confrontation course with Ulster ending in fiasco.

The product launch was labelled " a disaster ", a " fiasco " and a " PR catastrophe ".

Technology journalist Scott Rosenberg called the CueCat a " Rube Goldberg contraption ", a " massive flop " and a " fiasco ".

The review labeled the entire production a " fiasco ", calling Louise Downe's screenplay " senseless " and the acting " amateurish ".

On 14 May 2002, a parliamentary committee member described the operation as " a scandal in itself " and an " expensive ... fiasco ", the lead investigator having allegedly lied about the existence of forensic evidence to win over parents and staff who had mounted a campaign on behalf of the accused.

Rimsky-Korsakov also writes that, after the fiasco regarding the Mariinsky Theater's production of Taneyev's Oresteia, Mitrofan Belyayev, the publisher and impresario who now headed the " Mighty Handful ", shared Taneyev's outrage over the incident and volunteered to publish the score himself.

The Auton invasions of Spearhead from Space and Terror of the Autons were dealt with by the " plastic purges ", which caused a shortage ; Captain Mike Yates took a UNIT team back into the past with several nuclear warheads to prevent the Silurians from awakening, and half of present-day London suddenly became a crater ; the " Probe 7 fiasco " lead to a line of radioactive craters across America ; lives were lost whenever UNIT provided security at a peace conference ( Day of the Daleks, The Mind of Evil ); and Stahlman's Gas is considered a hot investment tip.

", proved that Beethoven was not deaf but stupid, and explained why the improbable encounter between the Venus de Milo and Saint Exupéry's ' Petit Prince ' was a fiasco.

These included " a fiasco of unforgivable proportions ", an English-language The Magic Flute which caused Paul Callaway's resignation.

The attempt ended in a complete fiasco as out of the initial 300 able bodied recruits ( from the entire Podhale region ) all but twelve deserted within a short time or were sent to concentration camps by the Germans for insubordination.

The USA tour fiasco did not help the already strained relationship between Eldritch and the Sisters ' new record company EastWest, a WEA subsidiary ( the band was assigned to it 1989 following an internal shuffle in WEA ).

Bodiroga retired from the national team after the EuroBasket 2005 fiasco, in which his team, one of the tournament's favorites, was relegated as early as the first elimination round by the French national team on their own home court, in a tournament that ended with fierce allegations from head coach Željko Obradović of numerous fights between many of the players.

The successful campaigns against Poland, Scandinavia and France, and the bad standing of the Red Army after the Great Purge in the 1930s, as indicated by the fiasco of the Winter War, made Hitler believe that relations between Nazi Germany and Russia would not again be as favorable.

The failure further sours the relationship between Linx and Irongron, which has deteriorated since the robot knight fiasco and the point at which the robber saw the Sontaran ’ s true visage beneath his helmet.

The Air Mail scandal, also known as the Air Mail fiasco, is the name that the American press gave to the political scandal resulting from a congressional investigation of a 1930 meeting ( the so-called Spoils Conference ), between Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown and the executives of the top airlines, and to the disastrous results of the steps taken by the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to use the U. S. Army Air Corps to fly the mail in 1934.

Cory arrives to find the Pair in trouble with security for the stake-out fiasco, which nonetheless has revealed the nature of their adversaries: artificial personalities encoded on micro-software plugs enabling the smugglers to move between host bodies.