The phrase "a grave failure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a serious or significant mistake or shortcoming in a particular context.
Example: "The project's delay was attributed to a grave failure in communication among team members."
Alternatives: "a serious mistake" or "a significant error."
Given the economy, you draw important attention to a grave failure in America's social policy: a growing number of low-income single parents cannot afford to work because of the overwhelming cost of child care.
An internal review of how the United Nations handled the bloody final months of Sri Lanka's civil war in 2009, when as many as 40,000 civilians were killed, has concluded that the response was "a grave failure of the U.N.," according to a leaked draft of the report.
An internal review of how the United Nations handled the bloody final months of Sri Lanka's civil war in 2009, when as many as 40,000 civilians were killed, has concluded that the response was "a grave failure of the U.N.," according to a leaked draft report.
As matters now stand, this council will not even mandate the dispatch of human rights monitors to Syria – a grave failure that may doom the prospects for peaceful protest in the face of a regime that knows no limits". Rice accused Russia and China of looking the other way as attempts at a peaceful settlement have been spurned by Assad.
Several commentators, including centre-left ones such as James McInytre, have blamed the whole episode on devolution, arguing last year that the Megrahi decision was the sort of decision that "should have been taken – and be seen to be taken – at a national level by the British government" and that "devolution has led to a grave failure of accountability".
"Events in Sri Lanka mark a grave failure of the UN," it concludes.
That it is easier to reroute children's intestines than keep them from becoming fat would seem a grave political failure.
Under Labour, Britain has slipped down the international education rankings.Another grave failure has been in welfare.
They criticised the "grave" failure of prosecutors to hand over thousands of pages of documents containing intelligence gathered by the Met about the corruption allegations.
He found "grave failures of public administration".
Hacked Off said newspapers have shown "no real regret for the grave failures identified in the report of the Leveson inquiry, nor have they engaged in sincere dialogue with the public, with parliament or with us".
