The phrase "a failing system" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means a system that is not working or functioning properly. Example: The company's profits continued to decline due to a failing system of production and distribution.
If progressive centrists simply cheer Obama on, without aggressively supporting collaborative solutions, the administration will be forced to pander to specific interest groups with an old-style super-stimulus plan that pumps more money into a failing system, without dealing with systemic causes.
A report by a task force appointed by Gov. David Paterson describes a failing system that damages young people, fails to curb recidivism and eats up millions of tax dollars.
Indeed, it takes skilled leadership to turn around a failing system, but what about the leaders who allowed it to fail in the first place?
Taxpayers' money is being squandered on shoring up a failing system.
Despite her many flaws, Selina comes across as sympathetic: a cog in a failing system that's dirty, noisy and obsolete.
This true-life story, at once disturbing and illuminating, encapsulates the larger drama of a failing system.
All organizational entities can be compared to those principles; any incongruence indicates an incomplete or an already failing system.
Systems science provides organizational principles supported by biologic findings that can be applied to any organization; any incongruence indicates an incomplete or an already failing system.
"All evidence points to a badly failing system, yet these warnings continue to fall on deaf ears.
He urged the court to bear in mind the "history, context and purpose" of the program, which he said was not to elevate religion but to save children from "a manifestly failing system".
The merging of NHS and social care could be a positive step for people with dementia who currently fall through the cracks of a crumbling and failing system.
