Sentence examples for a failure of infrastructure from inspiring English sources

The heightened awareness that follows a failure of infrastructure after extreme weather is not unusual and not confined to winter.

"There is no reason to believe this is anything other than a failure of our infrastructure," Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said.

One was a failure of plumbing the infrastructure of the markets and the back offices of financial firms.

It will also build support for more substantial reworking of California's public safety strategy which was last designed to protect us from Charles Manson and needs to protect us from a massive failure of infrastructure combined with natural disasters.

The other was a failure of the imagination.Infrastructure often lags when an innovation takes off.

They claim that Ogale has also been heavily affected by theft, pipeline sabotage and illegal refining rather than failure of infrastructure.

Enhanced infiltration during rainfall events can potentially lead to rapidly elevated pore water pressures and reduced shear strength and is widely cited as the strength reduction mechanism behind the wide spread failure of infrastructure slopes.

In other words, she's being used to compensate for the failure of infrastructure.

And that deficiency is related to the second key failure of infrastructure privatization: Not everything that needs to get built gets built.

Invest in Urban and Rural Areas: Over the past couple of years, we've seen the failure of infrastructure in major centers -- manhole explosions in New York City, bridge collapse in Minnesota, and the devastating effects of hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans.

The Tory infrastructure commission will be undermined by a failure of political ambition.