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Failings

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Plural of failing

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There he once returned to the dressing room after training to find armed men eager to berate the team for their failings.

A crisis-hit hospital has been cleared of deliberately manipulating cancer treatment waiting times – with a review finding any failings were the result of managerial incompetence, not corruption.

We are stepping into the gap left by parties that are now opposition in name only, exposing the economic and social failings of the establishment.

For all the failings of the system he got that bed.

One of the main failings in the criminal justice response to this abhorrent form of sexual abuse is that, having criminalised the practice in 1985, all concerned sat back and waited for a little girl to walk into a police station and tell a strange adult what her mummy and daddy had allowed someone to do to her.

Charles Kennedy (Former leader of Liberal Democrats dies aged 55, theguardian.com, 2 June) was a rarity in public life: a thoroughly decent man who was honest enough to admit his failings and who was not treated kindly for doing so.

Of course, Latin America's left-leaning governments have no shortage of failings, from corruption to crime.

David Cameron was accused of playing into the hands of rightwing extremists today as he delivered a controversial speech on the failings of multiculturalism within hours of one of the biggest anti-Islam rallies ever staged in Britain.

The report said Network Rail was taking action to ensure there was no repeat of the failings.

His failings were laid bare, his tantrums leaked, inconsistencies pulled apart on the front pages and on the evening news.

His wretched failings as a manager were cruelly exposed.

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