Sentence examples for Succession of failures from inspiring English sources

He was the first player to score four successive ducks in Test cricket, a succession of failures not repeated until 1936, and this remained the record number of successive ducks until 1985.

First picked for Pakistan in 1986, aged just 19, he lasted a year, before a succession of failures led to his being dropped, not to return until 1992.

But Fitzgerald's life was, until her 60s, a succession of failures, a haunting tale of blighted hope, personal tragedy and rare, late fulfilment.

The guilt-ridden Charlie, whose love life is a succession of failures, seeks to preserve the integrity of Orlean's work as a way of proving his own uncorruptibility, but finds himself tempted to distort and cheapen it.

But one of the keys to his turnaround seems to have been his succession of failures in politics and business, which acquaintances said humbled him and left him much more likable.

The committee said undertaking the works was essential because the Palace of Westminster faced "an impending crisis which we cannot responsibly ignore" – such as a major fire or a succession of failures making parliament uninhabitable.

Unemployment was still rising; the succession of business failures resembled rows of falling dominoes.

A succession of expensive failures, among them Scorsese's New York, New York (1977) and Spielberg's 1941 19799), culminated in the 1980 disaster of Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, which brought United Artists to its knees.

Monday's report said there was a succession of equipment failures which stalled progress, with insufficient contingency in the project plan to ensure the work would finish in time for services to run on 27 December.

Since Venky's took over the club in 2010, Rovers have been relegated from the Premier League, attendances at home matches have halved and after a succession of managerial failures and player departures, the club currently finds itself scrapping for survival in the Championship.

Rooney has endured a succession of tournament failures since bursting onto the international scene at Euro 2004.