Sentence examples for a conspicuous failure from inspiring English sources

This, too, was a conspicuous failure.

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

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

The detention of asylum seekers who sought our protection under international law has been a conspicuous failure of policy.

"There was a conspicuous failure to follow the requirements of the alcohol withdrawal protocol," said a lawyer for Mr.

Britain, with its fragmented unions and employers' groups, was a conspicuous exception, and its attempt to mimic French indicative planning in the 1960s was a conspicuous failure.

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.