Sentence examples for A conspicuous failure from inspiring English sources

A conspicuous failure during the government's first term, he was largely stripped of departmental ministerial responsibility when Labour was re-elected (though he hung on to the perks of office and his grand title).

This, too, was a conspicuous failure.

For more than a year, the Eighth Air Force was a conspicuous failure.

Though few in Beijing are prepared to admit it, China's policies toward North Korea have long been a conspicuous failure.

Some outside software publishers say that hardware executives relish the prospect of a conspicuous failure by the software side.

Yet in many quarters — here, in Iraq, and around the world — there has been a conspicuous failure to feel good.

It would have been a much more conspicuous failure had it been left in the White House".

Next, bring in a new offensive co-coördinator of absolutely no accomplishment whose special attractions, aside from a history of conspicuous failure, is some kind of hefty-guy vibe shared by the head coach.

Eventually he will become Arcadia's most conspicuous failure by becoming a prominent neo-conservative commentator on a cable news show.

Among the paradoxes of this transformation is that Washington's resurgent self-confidence is a direct result of its own conspicuous failure.

The "mild" response of the United States to the Egyptian security forces' mass murder of pro-Morsi protesters and its "conspicuous" failure to condemn the military overthrow of a legitimate, democratically elected president raise serious questions about the commitment of the Obama administration to democracy and the rule of law.