"that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"
"the fatal day of the election finally arrived"

"the stock market crashed on Black Friday"
"a calamitous defeat"
"the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"
"such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"
"it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"
"a fateful error"

"a fatal series of events"