Sentence examples for Familiar failing from inspiring English sources

But it was a more familiar failing that really ended his hopes.

It was the final pass or attempt which undermined them, and that has been a familiar failing.

Beyond this City were guilty of a familiar failing, the inability to reorganise and adjust, to find a second wind in adversity.

This is part of a new chain of elite technology and innovation centres trying to bridge the gap between early innovation (a traditional British strength) and industrial-scale manufacturing (a familiar failing).

Paul Rees Match report: England 21-24 New Zealand The 10th defeat in 10 games to Australia may have been the same old story, and the manner of it may have been all too familiar – failing to protect a slender lead in the closing minutes – but Wales have every reason to feel jaunty.

In his review of how Britain responds to humanitarian disasters, Lord Ashdown highlighted a familiar failing among aid agencies: how they sometimes seem to be trying to advance their own agendas rather than concentrating on the needs of the people they are trying to help.

Familiar failings hampered Worcester.

Wider aid effectiveness is hampered by some familiar failings.

And then reality clicked in and reminders of familiar failings came flooding back.

Familiar failings undermined a display that was an improvement on recent offerings, a low benchmark admittedly.

He leapt 10 places in the rankings but bemoaned familiar failings.