Sentence examples for a central failing from inspiring English sources

Economists and public health experts say stubborn malnutrition rates point to a central failing in this democracy of the poor.

In the Oxfordshire report, the familiar finding of a "lack of curiosity and rigour" by professionals who had the wrong "mindset" was a central failing.

Erickson contends that a central failing of the Republican Party is its subservience to the business elite: The Republican Establishment gets their head patted as they sip wine with major C.E.O.s who want Washington to just do something.

Sarah Churchwell observes that the simplistic satire of Joyce Carol Oates's "My Sister, My Love" (Aug. 10) "distances and distracts, throwing up a cordon sanitaire around the novel's painful core," as though this were a central failing of the novel.

The reasons are manifold, but a central failing is how the scheme evaluates success.

Raúl Castro has repeatedly lamented that Cuba imported around 80% of the food it consumed between 2007 and 2009, at a cost of over $1.7 billion a year.The American embargo is an irritant, but the economy's central failing is that Fidel's paternalist state did away with any incentive to work, or any sanction for not doing so.

This is the central failing of Sylvia: you can't make a confusing story more lucid if you yourself are still confused.

That was one example of the central failing of the Rangers this season.

Updike struggled with what he must have recognised as his central failing.

Several investigations have been begun, but their central failing is that they have not investigated the top officials responsible.

For Eric Dondero, who plans to challenge him in the Republican Congressional primary next fall, foreign policy is Paul's central failing.