Without this provision there is likely to be a disastrous failure of communication.

The Times then published several articles about the impending attack, which would end in disastrous failure.

We should be prepared for the possibility of a disastrous failure.

They were a disastrous failure, with little available for ordinary people to buy.

Weakness has been a disastrous failure as a policy - and not only for the victims in former Yugoslavia.

No number of successes could erase that first disastrous failure.

The other ships might have suffered even more disastrous failures than the Hope.

It is clear to me that my project is a disastrous failure.

So why the consistent and disastrous failure to live up to this mandate?

Having a solitary general attack is considered a disastrous failure.